{"id":9647,"date":"2016-01-21T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/01\/21\/european-ports-call-for-weighing-clarity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:52:50","slug":"european-ports-call-for-weighing-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/european-ports-call-for-weighing-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"European ports call for weighing clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With less than six months until new SOLAS rules come into force there is still said to be a lack of information and harmonisation at national level regarding the implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Jasper Nagtegaal, chairman of the Customs and Logistics Committee, said: \u201cFrom 1 July 2016, all containers to be loaded on a vessel will need to be accompanied by Verified Gross Mass (VGM).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now, industry actors have released guidelines on the implementation of SOLAS requirement, but guidance from national authorities is still absent in many cases,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>FEPORT has requested national authorities to develop guidelines that protect the efficiency of the logistics chain and do not create competitive distortions between Member States.<\/p>\n<p>Member States are being encourage to draft guidelines which adopt a pragmatic approach.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nagtegaal added: \u201cA lack of national guidelines will ultimately lead to confusion in implementation and will have an adverse impact on operations, leading to possible competitive distortion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federation of European Private Port (FEPORT) has called for clarity on the implementation of SOLAS weighing rules at national levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647","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=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9649,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions\/9649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}