The National Cargo Bureau (NCB) recently issued a white paper as part of the Container Inspection Safety Initiative with eye-opening results about misdeclared cargo.
During the initiative, the New York-based NCB inspected 500 containers — both imports and exports — from participating ocean carriers. They discovered that 55% of the containers failed to comply with basic loading standards and another 6.5% held misdeclared cargo.
Misdeclared cargo has long been a concern to the carrier industry,...
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