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 ...

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 ...

Beginning July 1, 2016, the SOLAS Convention will require the shipper of a packed export container to verify the container’s weight before it is loaded aboard a ship. In November 2014, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of global logistics companies called on international ocean shipping regulators to clarify and provide more detail on new container-weighing requirements they say will require significant ...