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FRIDAY 12 June 2009 NO. 1866
The Freight Community’s Weekly Newspaper for Import / Export decision makers – on subscription
Overweight containers – soon an issue of the past By Alan Peat An answer to a problem that has been plaguing both the shipping and the road transport industries – the curse of overweight containers, and the safety hazard they present – may soon be found.
FTW was first alerted to this potential solution in an e-mail from a reader. Responding to an article headlined ‘Weight misdeclaration remains a thorny issue for carriers’ (FTW – May 29, 2009), he said: “Surely the logical solution is to straddle-weigh containers
in the terminal. “The current generation of straddles is reportedly fitted with weighing devices, enabling the all-up weights (container and contents) to be established. “The problem is to get Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) to activate/use the
facility for the benefit of all concerned.” An FTW investigation revealed that this idea originated with the Durban truckers’ division of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders (Saaff), and was one that they had been proposing to the port terminal
management for some time. Said Kevin Martin, MD of Freightliner and vicechairman of the Durban Harbour Carriers Association: “This is something we’ve put to TPT on a number of occasions. “It seems only sense To page 12
Lufthansa fights night flight ban Lufthansa Cargo is not taking the looming Frankfurt Airport night flight ban lying down. The airline’s Workers’ Council has launched what it calls an information offensive for the retention of the right to fly at night. “A ban on night flights would cut off Germany from the international flow of goods and lead to a relocation of production and logistics companies,” said Willi Roerig,
chairman of the Central Workers’ Council. The campaign will also focus on the concerns of around 3 000 Lufthansa Cargo employees in Germany. “A shutdown of the airport between 23.00 and 05.00 hours would threaten the continued existence of Lufthansa Cargo and put thousands of jobs in our company and at numerous other logistics companies at risk,” he said.
Loading an MD11 at Frankfurt Airport … a night-time shutdown would threaten the existence of Lufthansa Cargo and put thousands of jobs at risk.
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