In May 2014, the IMO's Maritime Safety Committee approved changes to the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) convention regarding a mandatory container weight verification requirement on shippers.

2014年5月，国际海事组织海上安全委员会批准修改海上生命安全公约中（SOLAS）对托运人强制验证集装箱重量的要求。

The DSC report was approved by the Maritime Safety Committee in May 2014 and adopted by the committee in November 2014.

DSC的报告被海上安全委员会于2014年5月批准并在2014年11月进行了修订。

The requirement making container weight verification a condition for vessel loading will becomelegally binding on 1stJuly, 2016.

把集装箱重量检验作为船舶装载的条件这一要求将自2016年7月1日开始具备法律约束效力。

The SOLAS amendments are clear in assigning responsibilities, summarized below:

SOLAS公约修订案明确了责任的分配，归纳如下：

在没有获取经核实的载货集装箱毛重时，船长（船东）和码头经营人有权拒绝将该集装箱装载到船舶上

For shippers to establish an accurate verified gross mass, two methods are available:

托运人有两种方法获得载货集装箱经核实毛重的方法：

METHOD NO. 1
　　The shipper may weigh, or have arranged that a third party weigh, the packed container.

方法1：在完成集装箱装箱和上封后，托运人可自行或安排第三方对载货集装箱进行称重

METHOD NO. 2
　　The shipper (or, by arrangement of the shipper, a third party) may weigh all packages and cargo items and add the tare mass of the container to the sum of the single masses of the container’s contents.

方法2：托运人可自行或安排第三方对所有的货物包装和组件进行称重，包括集装箱内的衬盘、衬垫和其它包装及系固材料，然后将这些重量和集装箱的皮重相加