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30 Jun 2016 / Hong Kong

Approved weighing equipment for Verification of Gross Mass of a packed container

The Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Carriage of Cargoes) Regulation, Cap. 369AV, (Revision 2016) (hereunder called “the Regulation”) will be in force on 1 July 2016. Section 3A of the Regulation incorporated the requirement of Amendment to SOLAS Chapter VI Regulation 2 requires shippers to verify the gross mass of packed containers and declare to carriers before loading them on vessel.

One of the methods for verification of container gross mass is to weigh the packed container as a whole directly by using an approved weighing equipment. There will be only one record of gross mass obtained in this operation. Some approved equipment operators do not possess lifting mechanism in situ for lifting the packed container from the trailer for measuring the sole mass of the container. The shipper who engages with this kind of operator has therefore to weigh twice by firstly obtaining the combined mass of the trailer with the packed container and secondly, by removing the packed container from the trailer with the assistance from other facilities, the tare mass of the trailer which should then be subtracted to determine the verified gross mass of the packed container.

The approval status may be revoked if the operator does not follow the above practice. Notations have been marked in the public accessible list of approved weighing equipment to differentiate those operators without lifting mechanism.

(For information about operations in Hong Kong contact GAC Hong Kong at [email protected])

Source: Government of Hong Kong SAR Marine Department Notice No.90 of 2016 dated 28 June 2016

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