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MSC and INTTRA form partnership to meet UN box weight verification rule

MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company, (MSC), and ocean logistics solutions provider INTTRA, have entered into a partnership to meet container weight safety rule which take effect July 1.

Under the agreement, MSC will use INTTRA's eVGM software as a channel for receiving verified gross mass (VGM) submissions from shippers.

As of July 1, under the International Maritime Organisation's Safety of Life at Sea amendment (SOLAS VGM), no container will be cleared to be loaded onto a ship until the shipper or its designee provides a verified weight to the carrier.

"We are pleased to partner with INTTRA to imp" said chief technology officer of MSC, Fabio Catassi.

"INTTRA's eVGM tool will help us to continue to provide superior customer service and make it as easy as possible for our clients to submit VGMs digitally.

"We believe this tool will help minimise potential disruption to shipments and additional costs associated with terminal storage or transportation," said the MSC statement.

In addition, MSC has joined INTTRA's eVGM Initiative - a non-commercial group of over a dozen leading carriers, freight forwarders, and terminals. INTTRA launched the Initiative to express a preference for digital transmission of VGM and establish common technology and business process standards for it across the industry, the American Journal of Transportation reported.

INTTRA's CEO John Fay commented: "MSC is taking a strategic step to embrace our eVGM solution on a large scale and is an early leader in using technology to resolve the changes that SOLAS VGM has created for the industry."