D-day for Solas!

Cargo Handling Services

(CHS) has imported five

mobile container weighing

units at the port of Cape

Town in anticipation of

Safety of Life at Sea (Solas)

regulation verified gross

mass D-Day – which kicks

in today (1 July).

Managing director of

CHS, Owen Bottomley,

told FTW that the

company had set up

additional container scales

on the N3 to Durban at

Vaal Truck Inn and at

Belcon in Cape Town.

“We will be advising

Durban and Port Elizabeth

shortly,” he said.

He said the Solas

purpose-designed mobile

scales could be used while

the container was either on

the ground or still on the

trailer. “And weighing is

fast – taking five minutes –

from the time the equipment

is offloaded to weighing the

container,” said Bottomley.

CAPTION

A CHS employee weighs a container using the Solas

purpose-designed mobile scales.