The Heavy Vehicle Safety & Safe Container Loading Practices Awareness Campaign will:
- Highlight the impacts on heavy vehicle safety of inappropriately loaded, poorly restrained and/or unevenly weight distributed shipping containers, in order to demonstrate to all parties how heavy vehicle safety can be compromised with potential serious consequences; and
- Promote best practice in shipping container packing, cargo load restraint and weight distribution, including the provision of materials to assist importers to engage with their packers overseas, and for exporters to review their packing practices and associated container logistics chain impacts.
The Campaign will:
- Consolidate existing awareness materials and best practice guidelines;
- Develop checklists for use by importers and exporters, and their container packers; and
- Employ coordinated online and face-to-face strategies to raise awareness of container heavy vehicle safety and best practice container loading practices.
FTA, APSA and CTAA would like to extend our sincere thanks to the Minister, his staff and the team at NHVR for their continued support.
This will be a unique funded training opportunity for shippers, freight forwarders, and other container logistics stakeholders, and we look forward to sharing more information with members in the months ahead.
Travis Brooks-Garrett – FTA/APSA |
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