* New Jersey - Shippers warn SOLAS could raise trucking costs
-- The International Maritime Organization’s controversial container weight mandate could exacerbate the U.S. truck driver shortage and crimp supply chains far inland from U.S. ports... Carriers and shippers at a public listening session Thursday on the Safety of Life at Sea, or SOLAS, amendment, which goes into effect July 1, warned of drayage disruption at port gates... If harbor truckers show up with containers before the verified gross mass or VGM has been received or processed by the port terminal, that driver could be delayed hours, Cathy Nagin, general manager of New Orleans Cold Storage Transport, said... A similar situation often occurs, when drayage drivers arrive at 7 a.m. with containers that had been approved late in the preceding day by the carrier... Those are only two examples of unintended consequences shippers and their land and ocean carriers may face under SOLAS. The regulation is forcing shippers to rethink not just whether they should install scales, but how they manage the flow of containerized goods... SOLAS could easily interact with other regulations, such as U.S. truck driver hours-of-service rules, to take more time out supply chains, in effect reducing capacity and flexibility and threatening the speed with which shippers can move goods door-to-door... Slowing down supply chains, in this case, would mean additional costs, and some of those costs could be born by transportation partners that rarely see a port...
(Photo: SOLAS verified gross mass VGM IMO container weight) -- N.J., USA -
JOC, by William B. Cassidy - Feb 19, 2016Labels: rules and regulations, trucking industry news USA
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