{"id":9840,"date":"2016-05-12T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/05\/12\/apmt-offers-box-weighing-services-at-select-terminals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:54:50","slug":"apmt-offers-box-weighing-services-at-select-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/apmt-offers-box-weighing-services-at-select-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"APMT offers box weighing services at select terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This hopes to ensure a smooth transition into the new regulatory environmental which if facing over 120m containers entering the international supply chain when IMO SOLAS VGM regulations come into force in under 50 days.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 July 2016, under international law shippers will be required to provide VGM for every container before it can be loaded with the shipping line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur first priority remains to ensure safe and efficient operations for the supply chain,\u201d said Jack Craig, head of global operations at APMT.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt is crucial that these regulations are met in a way that does not create congestion bottlenecks that ultimately impose additional risk and cost for all stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Export containers which are received at APM Terminal facilities with a valid VGM will be accepted as per current local operational procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The export containers which arrive at APM Terminal facilities without a valid VGM will be generally accepted, but as they are ineligible to load on a vessel, may be segregated and subject to additional re-handling and storage requirements.<\/p>\n<p>APM Terminals will provide VGM Generation Services to supply chain partners at 29 locations globally, and the company aims to add further locations in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APM Terminals is in talks with local regulatory authorities to aim to provide Verified Gross Mass (VGM) Data Management capabilities in most terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9840","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\/9840","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=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9842,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions\/9842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}