{"id":9898,"date":"2016-06-21T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/06\/21\/australia-lays-down-weighing-law\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:14:00","slug":"australia-lays-down-weighing-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/australia-lays-down-weighing-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia lays down weighing law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Order 42 (Carriage, stowage and securing of cargoes and containers) 2016 enforces IMO rules on verified gross mass of export containers, mandating that export containers cannot be loaded onto ships without declaring a weight that has been verified using one of two approved methodologies \u2013 actual weighing of the packed container using calibrated and certified equipment or weighing everything in the container (including pallets and dunnage) and then adding the tare weight of the container.<\/p>\n<p>The AMS has confirmed that if the verified gross mass is not provided in time then the container \u201cshall not be loaded onto the ship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, Neil Chambers of the Container Transport Alliance Australia has commented that the Australian standards were still not understood well by many stakeholders in the export container supply chain, particularly some exporters, freight forwarders and container transport logistics providers.<\/p>\n<p>The IMO rules state the shipper of the container is defined as the \u201clegal entity or person named on the bill of lading or sea waybill or equivalent multi-modal transport document&#8230; as shipper and\/or who (or in whose name or on whose behalf) a contract of carriage has been concluded with a shipping company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has issued its final decision on rules for ports and shippers regarding container weighing protocols.<\/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":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898","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=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}