| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 航運管理學系 === 104 === When shippers deliver goods to carriers for the container loading, the cargo weight which provided by shippers on shipping document is the basis of stowage plan made by carriers. However, the cargo weight was not verified but just declared from shippers who hold the liability of warranty. Possibly result in safety anxiety from mis-declaration by shippers, Maritime Safety Committee, structured of International Maritime Organization, approved the “Guidelines regarding the verified gross mass of a container carrying cargo,” which requests the shippers has to provide a verified gross mass (VGM) for packed container. If without a verified gross mass, the packed container shall not be loaded aboard ship, and this rule will be effective from July 1, 2016. Purpose of the thesis gathered the main international maritime convention, included the Hague Rules 1924, the Hague-Visby Rules 1968, the Hamburg Rules 1978, UN Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods 1980 and the Rotterdam Rules 2009 to study legal basis of verified gross mass, and summarized the latest guidelines with regard to the method of verified gross mass from international maritime group, included International Maritime Organization, the European Chemical Industry Council, World Shipping Council and United Kingdom Maritime & Coastguard Agency. Results demonstrate as follows:
1. To analyze the international maritime convention, international maritime group and the guidelines regarding implementation of the verified gross mass of a container in Taiwan, all of them deem it necessary that the shippers should be liable for providing a verified gross mass, and carriers do not even to re-verify it.
2. The research of the thesis with respect to method 2 of VGM is proposed that only Sea, Forwarder and Warehouse which approved by AEO is qualified to what SOLAS concerning “using a certified method approved by the competent authority of the State in which packing of the container was completed.”
3. According to the thesis, we have found that Maritime Act, Taiwan, Article 55 is not applicable to the SOLAS guidelines regarding verified gross mass, so it is recommended to amend as shown in table 5.8.
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