TT Club has been shortlisted for the Safety4Sea Europort Initiative Award 2019
TT Club is proud to be nominated for the Safety4Sea Europort Initiative Award.
TT Club has been nominated for its commitment to increasing awareness and improving standards for cargo integrity through its #Fit4Freight campaign. The Cargo Integrity Cargo campaign aims to promote best practice in transporting hazardous cargo across the entire supply chain through industry collaboration.
The Safety4Sea Initiative Award is given to an organisation or association that has sparked, realised, or significantly contributed in any initiative fostering safer and sustainability shipping.
The winners are chosen by public vote, the results of which will be announced at the Safety4Sea Europort Conference in Rotterdam on 6th November 2019.
You can vote for TT Club by following this link. Voting will be open until Monday 30th September 2019.
European Shipping Week will take place in Brussels from 27 February to 2 March and there delegates will focus on the correct packing of Cargo Transport Units (CTUs) and the safety issues that result from poor work practices.
London International Shipping Week takes place between 11th and 15th September, during which an event at the IMO will focus on the correct packing of Cargo Transport Units (CTUs) and the safety issues that result from poor packing and securing practices.
The containerised supply chain is well-known for its complexity. TT Club is seeking to ‘call out’ any practice that may undermine safety and preclude certain of outcome within its ‘Cargo Integrity’ / #Fit4Freight campaign. Key targets inevitably relate to shipment, handling and carriage of dangerous goods.
Efforts to secure accurate container gross mass data continue following the SOLAS revision mandating verified gross mass for every packed unit having taken effect, but international freight transport insurer, TT Club is now calling for a concerted industry campaign to ensure good practice in all aspects of cargo care.
