VGM

This is a guest post by Josh Broswick. There’s a certain kind of invisible architecture hiding beneath every shipment, behind every crate, below every container – an architecture made of [...]

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, … And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey, nonny nonny. –William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing The new [...]

It’s hee-eere. The new Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rule goes into effect tomorrow: July 1st. For many exporters, imagining the little girl from Poltergeist saying that first line of this post [...]

July 1st is less than a month away. Many in the international shipping industry are nervous about that. That’s because July 1st is when the International Convention for the Safety of Life [...]

As July 1st draws nearer, nervousness increases about the new Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rule going into effect then. A couple months ago, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) upped controvercy on the [...]

What’s going on with this new Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rule? Somehow the answer to that question is getting less clear as the July 1st rule change concerning VGM draws near. Ripples of [...]

Overview A regulation change announced by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will take effect this year that majorly affects international shippers. There has been a big [...]