Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Marking of Weight (Packages Transported by Vessels) Convention, 1929 (No. 27) - Pakistan (Ratification: 1931)

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2019

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The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report including a response to its general observation of 2007. It notes that there are three major ports in Pakistan, the Karachi, Bin Qasim and Gwadar Ports of which the two former each have a traditional portion as well as specifically dedicated container terminals. The Gwadar Port is as yet mainly dealing with bulk cargo, that is to say wheat and fertilizers, which is loaded using equators or grabs, some of which clearly mark the load capacity. The facilities in this port are still in development. The container terminals, as well as the Karachi Port Trust area of the Karachi Port, have computerized weighing scales checking the weight of containers entering the port. The shore cranes in the container terminals are modern cranes which cannot lift containers beyond their safe working load, whereas in the latter port, the bulk cargo is mostly loaded or unloaded using ships’ own cranes, although equators, tested grabs and shore cranes also are available. Based on the information provided by the Government in this and previous reports, the Committee notes that the Convention is implemented through legislation only in the Karachi Port through article 33-A of part III of the Karachi Port Trust Manual of 1931, that this legislation does not cover the Bin Qasim and Gwadar Ports and that the Government submits that modern equipment, which display the weight of containers, are used in all ports in Pakistan and that the standards of the Convention are thus applied in practice. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on measures taken for the application of the Convention in particular in the traditional parts of the ports in the country and to continue to provide any other pertinent information in relation to this Convention.