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Shippers Coalition Offers Guidance On Container Weight Verification

The amendments to International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) require packed shipping containers to have a verified gross mass (VGM) before they can be loaded on a ship for export.

The Port of New Orleans container yards stay busy year round.

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Panama Canal To Shift Asian Trade To East Coast

Panama Canal Authority (PCA)

The expansion of the Panama Canal means cargo containers from Asia now can take a direct, all-water route to East Coast and southern ports, avoiding the need to transfer goods from L.A./Long Beach to distant U.S. markets.

This is an artist's impression of the Panama Canal Expansion on completion.

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SeaLand’s Atlantico service connects Mexico with Northeast U.S.

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CMA CGM Releases Panama Canal Plan

This 77km-long canal is now a strategic route for global trade: five percent of all traffic passes through the canal (eight percent for the Suez Canal), representing 200 million tons of goods a year; on board more than 15,000 vessels.

French liner CMA CGM has hailed the inauguration of the widened Panama Canal, stating that the canal allows it to reconfigure its strategy and create a major transshipment hub in nearby Jamaica.

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Maersk Group Considers Splitting Into Different Companies

A.P. Moller- Maersk

Maersk is now battling on two fronts, with container shipping suffering from historic low freight rates and the oil business dealing with around a 60 percent fall in oil prices.

Danish shipping and oil group A. P. Moller-Maersk could split up into separate companies, its chairman said on Thursday after naming Soren Skou, the head of its container business, as chief executive.

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Hapag-Lloyd Teams with INTRRA on Complying with Container Weight Rule

The e-VGM service is available in two versions for carriers and shippers and provides the operational capabilities for digital submission, receipt, processing and auditing of SOLAS-compliant VGMs.

Hapag-Lloyd will connect with the INTTRA e-VGM Service for facilitating compliance with the International Maritime Organization’s container weight requirements.

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Panama Canal Expansion to Change Regional Shipping Networks

The Suez Canal may still have an advantage over the Panama Canal in terms of the time taken to transport cargo, especially with the recent news that it will be offering more competitive tolls for ships.

The opening of the expanded Panama Canal is likely to create a significant shift in regional shipping networks, particularly with regards to the size and frequency of ships coming into the US East and Gulf Coast ports.

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Ocean Carriers Support Terminal Weighing Approach For SOLAS Requirement

OCEMA applauded the efforts of the ports and marine terminal operators that have announced that they will provide VGM weighing services on behalf of U.S. exporters and encourages ports and terminals across the country to adopt similar approaches.

Under the OCEMA terminal weighing approach concept, U.S. ports and marine terminal operators could weigh containers moving through their truck gates and provide the gross container weights directly to ocean carrier stowage planners.

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Maersk Line: SOLAS VGM Rule Necessary But Will Be Bumpy

When analyzing root causes for such accidents, it is clear that significant vessel instability has been caused by actual weight exceeding the declared weight by several hundred percent. For a few containers this might not be an issue, he noted, but when it is the case for more of the cargo, the risk of major container stack collapses or a serious vessel accident increases significantly.

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FMC Commissioner Calls on Ocean Carriers to Allow Terminals to Determine VGM Weights

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)

Chairman Mario Cordero said the time has come for ocean carriers to embrace the obvious solution to achieving compliance that marine terminal operators can offer.

'Using the weight taken at the terminal gate for the purposes of satisfying the need for a verified weight of a container is a simple and efficient solution for assuring the continued smooth flow of export cargoes,' according to Federal Maritime Commission chairman Mario Cordero.

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Port of Los Angeles Posts Busiest May Ever; Long Beach also Gains

Port of Los Angeles

Cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles increased nearly 11 percent in May compared to the same period last year, marking the busiest May in the Port’s 109-year history.

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