THE Vancouver Port Authority (VPA) will introduce more exacting container truck safety and environmental standards by July, according to a company statement.
The port authority also registered its support for ongoing container truck inspections and called on the industry to implement tougher inspection standards.
"Recent safety inspection results confirm the container trucking industry in the Lower Mainland needs to take a serious look at how it manages safety standards," said VPA vice president Chris Badger.
The statement said that during a recent three-day safety inspection conducted by Delta Police and the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation along Deltaport Way, 250 container trucks were singled out for inspection and 114 failed safety standards.
"These results are unacceptable to the port authority, to the communities in which we operate, and to the trucking industry as a whole," said Mr Badger.
"The VPA is putting the operators of unsafe container trucks on notice here: substandard equipment will not be allowed on port property."
In January 2007, the VPA implemented a new trucking policy that introduced new and more rigorous licensing, audit and enforcement provisions that apply to container trucks and container truck operations at the Port of Vancouver.
"Our container trucking license agreement currently requires that licensees comply with existing environmental and safety laws, regulations and standards," said Mr Badger. "But we want to go beyond that. We want our licensees to exceed existing standards."
Asian Shipper News
Login
