{"id":9396,"date":"2015-09-09T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/09\/09\/bromma-adds-weight-to-regulation-warning\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T20:54:00","slug":"bromma-adds-weight-to-regulation-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/bromma-adds-weight-to-regulation-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Bromma adds weight to regulation warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its fear is that lacklustre take up of existing technology to calculate loads could lead to a bottleneck closer to the deadline as terminals scramble to retrofit load sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing vice-president Lars Meurling warned: \u201cWe have supplied between 500-600 new spreaders with load sensing, but that is not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bromma\u2019s Vikram Raman added: \u201cThe problem will be the retrofit: there are 8,000 existing spreaders, the majority of which do not have load sensing. This \u2018existing population\u2019 needs to be taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s weight verification system mounts load sensors on the spreader twistlocks and is one of a number of solutions available to container terminal operators.<\/p>\n<p>Bromma is unwilling to increase capacity to cater for any last minute surge in orders as there is no guarantee that its solution will be the preferred option. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spreader manufacturer Bromma has added its voice to industry concerns that ports will not be able to meet incoming regulations on container weighing in time for the July 2016 deadline.<\/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":[62],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396","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=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}