Mobile weighing system launched

As the industry gears up
for the July 1 deadline for
the mandatory weighing of
containers, Cape Crating has
announced that it will be
offering a mobile weighing
system that can be operated at
customers’ premises.
In terms of the new Solas
regulations, which places the
onus for the supply of correct
weight certification on the
shipper, two
methods can
be employed
– method
one involves
the weighing
of a packed
container at a
weighbridge
while method
two requires the
weighing of the
contents and
adding the tare weight of the
container to the total.
The Cape Crating solution
caters for method one.
“Our weighbridge is a
mobile system which means
we will be able to come
to you,” Cape Crating
director Owen Bottomley
told delegates at an FTW/
JCCI seminar on the topic in
Johannesburg last week.
“The weighbridge has four
posts which jack onto the ISO
blocks of a container and raise
it by 4cm. It transmits
the weight from
each load
cell so that
it transmits
the load
distribution
in your
container, the gross mass
and GPS location onto the
operator’s smartphone. He then
enters your container number
and seal number and that gets
emailed to you as a certificate.
It’s a quick and easy solution –
particularly for clients packing
at their own premises,” said
Bottomley.
“We’re expecting that the
cost will be around R700 per
container.”
Set up 21 years ago in
Cape Town, Cape Crating
has evolved from a crating
service to a specialised cargo
handling company and will
shortly be opening offices
in Johannesburg. In line
with these developments,
the name of the company
will be changed to Cargo
Handling Specialists.
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It’s a quick and easy
solution — particularly
for clients packing at
their own premises.
– Owen Bottomley