Enforcement failure accused of undermining weight rules

摘要

Weighing containers became mandatory last year, but the rule is only as good as its enforcement regime and BMT Surveys said its investigations show that compliance with the new regulation is not happening. BMT Surveys decided to conduct its own investigation into whether the new rule was being effectively applied by going on board ships and finding out the aggregated declared weight of the containers, then calculating the actual weight of the ship through its draught level.