An impending international requirement that shippers verify the weight of their goods before transport will sharply raise shipping costs on major trade lanes and trigger delays in moving cargo through ...

Approximately 10% of ocean cargo may cite an inaccurate weight, according to Loadstar. In 2015, an estimated 16.3 million out of 200.5 million TEUs, or industry- standard 20-foot-equivalent container ...

This story appears in the March 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Truckers who work at ports fear costly delays and hampered operations will result when new international rules requiring verified ...

APM Terminals Gothenburg has managed to cut quay crane waiting times by as much as 90% by implementing new standard operational procedures for container lashing. This translates to a reduction from 38 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says it won’t seek new regulations on an international requirement for exporters to verify the weight of shipping containers, leaving it up to shipping companies and their ...

With the July 1 implementation of the new SOLAS container verified gross mass (VGM) regulations fast approaching, Strainstall, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, is today launching a white paper to ...

Shipping a few packages and getting them weighed and postmarked at the local post office is a fairly straightforward task when a company's shipping volume is small. But if you are shipping on a large ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...