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VGM promoters 'frustrated' so little done to enforce costly UN rule
A DISTRESSED International Cargo Handling and Coordination Association (ICHCA), which counts Maersk's APMT and the underwriters TT Club among its three principal members, held a recent seminar on the introduction of a United Nations worldwide container weigh-in rule on July 1 to discover that member states were doing little if anything to enforce it.
"Industry sentiment expressed at the ICHCA Seminar entitled 'SOLAS VGM One Month Out - Are You Ready' in Antwerp was one of frustration," said the press release.
"Less than 15 per cent of the IMO [UN's International Maritime Organisation] member states in which VGM [verified gross mass] regulations will be mandatory have issued guidelines on the manner in which they intend to enforce the regulation.
The Antwerp seminar was a recent element of a long-running effort by ICHCA to create greater awareness of the VGM regulation.
ICHCA and TT Club, World Shipping Council (WSC) and the regulator-friendly Global Shippers Forum are "determined to use the remaining weeks to continue their mission of education to those concerned with, and about, the regulation".
"Industry sentiment expressed at the ICHCA Seminar entitled 'SOLAS VGM One Month Out - Are You Ready' in Antwerp was one of frustration," said the press release.
"Less than 15 per cent of the IMO [UN's International Maritime Organisation] member states in which VGM [verified gross mass] regulations will be mandatory have issued guidelines on the manner in which they intend to enforce the regulation.
The Antwerp seminar was a recent element of a long-running effort by ICHCA to create greater awareness of the VGM regulation.
ICHCA and TT Club, World Shipping Council (WSC) and the regulator-friendly Global Shippers Forum are "determined to use the remaining weeks to continue their mission of education to those concerned with, and about, the regulation".
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