{"id":8425,"date":"2012-02-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2012\/02\/28\/an-industry-at-tipping-point\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:00:00","slug":"an-industry-at-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/container-cargo-handling\/an-industry-at-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"An industry at tipping point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the deliberate beaching of the MSC Napoli in 2007 offered investigators an unprecedented opportunity to cross-check the actual weights of the remaining containers with those supplied by the shippers; 20% of the containers checked weighed over three tonnes more than their declared mass in the stowage plan.<\/p>\n<p>Further to the physical damage and, in some cases, loss of cargo, loading equipment or vessels themselves, is the inexcusable threat this practice poses to the health and safety of personnel involved in the movement of cargo by sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential risks associated with mis-declaring the weight of containers are self-evident and understood through common sense; recent incidents have included the loss of 18 containers overboard on the Husky Racer in 2010, and in 2007 the collapse of cargo containers aboard the Annabella, which had been stacked such that the heaviest loads were on top of the lightest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}