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Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA)
AusIntermodal 2015 Conference
“Container Safety”
Neil Chambers, Director
Container Transport Alliance Australia
Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA)
Overview
Transport Industry Injury Rates
– Improvement Needed
Accurate Container Weights:
Verified Export Weights
Import Container Weight
Declarations (CWD)
Container Packing / Unpacking
– Safety Focus
Bridge & Tunnel Strikes – Ouch!
Reachstacker Licencing
Need for Container CoR Code?
Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA)
Transport Injury Claims
Serious claims: Incidence rates by year (Safe Work Australia 2013)
Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA)
Container Weight Declarations
SOLAS Amendments –
Verifying Export Container
Weights – 1 July 2016
Amendments to Navigation
Act Marine Orders 42 & 44
Heavy Vehicle National Law
(HVNL) – Container Weight
Declarations (CWD)
Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA)
Verified Export Container Weights
MSC Napoli floundering &
salvage – 2007
Caused in part by structural
damage to the hull contributed
to by the weight of containers
Up to 20% of the containers
weighed when recovered from
the ship were mis-declared &
many mis-stowed
Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA)
Verified Export Container Weights
Shipper responsible for verifying gross weight
and accurate weighing method:
Method 1 – Weighing full container
Method 2 – Weighing all cargo / packing material /
Tare of container
Calibrated & Certified Equipment – National
Measurement Standards
How report to ship’s Master - PRA?
Who is the “Shipper”? – Legal entity on the BL /
LCL consolidation? / “Contract out”
responsibility? / Use of others’ measurement
device? / Who makes the declaration?
Consistency with HVNL CWD obligation
Consultation continues!
Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA)
Import Weight Declarations
How accurate are current
CWDs?
Weigh in Motion – Port Botany:
Before: 25% Axle Group Offences /
15% Gross Mass Offences
After: 12% Axle Group Offences /
2% Gross Mass Offences
Added costs of handling
How effective will SOLAS
amendments be in changing
export country behaviour?
Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA)
Container Safety (CoR) Code?
Is there a desire for a formal Container
Safety (CoR) Code?
Sit under the National Logistics Safety
Code – ALC?
Container Logistics Chain – Complex /
More Players / No Market Dominance
Port of Brisbane Code of Conduct
Would it help to meet regulatory
obligations & improve safety?
Audit Regime / Cost
Would it be recognised formally by
Authorities / Courts?