PRESS RELEASE
New York/Darlington, UK, 5 January 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hapag-Lloyd adopt Hazcheck Detect cargo
screening tool for misdeclared and undeclared dangerous goods
NCB
Group, the New York based cargo inspection company and the leading provider of
transportation software are pleased to announce that Hapag-Lloyd, one of the leading liner
shipping companies, have signed an agreement to adopt the Hazcheck
Detect cargo screening tool to detect misdeclared and undeclared dangerous
goods in containerised shipments. The solution has been developed and will be
delivered by NCB’s software division, Exis Technologies, global leaders in IT
solutions for the management of dangerous goods in sea transport.
Hazcheck Detect scans all cargo booking
details for keywords and includes an industry library to enable suspicious
bookings to be identified that may be misdeclared or undeclared dangerous goods
(DG) and other compliance cargo. The service is interactive allowing non-compliant cargo to be
detected within seconds rather than days. Last minute changes to bookings,
declarations, Bills of Lading and shipping
instructions can be picked up in real time. This immediate response helps to
prevent such cargo from being loaded onto a ship, thereby avoiding the risk of
fires at sea.
Hapag-Lloyd has been a customer of NCB and of Exis
Technologies’ Hazcheck Systems for many years, using the
Hazcheck IMDG Code validation tools for declared
dangerous goods cargo in their booking processes. NCB have worked closely with
Hapag-Lloyd on container inspections, including them in their 2018 container
inspections safety initiative, an industry project to gather more in-depth data
on container safety. The screening of containers to prevent dangerous goods
from being loaded onto ships in the first place is a topic that both companies
have been working on intensively for some time.
Ian Lennard , NCB President
commented, “We are delighted that Hapag-Lloyd has adopted Hazcheck
Detect for their cargo screening joining Maersk and ONE, the existing customers.
It is a major boost that this industry solution will be used by a top container
line with a long history of experience and interest in cargo screening
themselves. Hapag-Lloyd was a trail blazer in the creation of an industry
solution with common rules. Working with container lines like Hapag-Lloyd will
help us to further develop the tool using machine learning and AI techniques to
enhance the screening processes as part of our not for profit
mission, Safety of Life and Cargo at Sea. Data
across our Hazcheck tools will help us enhance the
screening process using validation results and feedback from container inspections,
helping with safety throughout the whole dangerous goods shipping process.
Ken Rohlmann, Senior Director Dangerous Goods at Hapag Lloyd
said, “We are pleased to be adopting this important industry solution. We have
been a strong advocate of this kind of screening approach for some time and are
glad to be one of the first companies to adopt this new technology. The key
criteria for moving to Hazcheck Detect was the desire
to have a common screening approach for all major container lines to help avoid
undeclared cargo rejected by one line being presented again as a booking to
another line. Hazcheck Detect with 3 major container
lines on board is well on the way to creating this common industry solution. We
are extremely pleased to be working alongside NCB and Exis in this venture and
we encourage all other major container lines to engage with the service.
Hazcheck Detect is delivered as a
software-as-a-service solution, hosted and maintained
by Exis Technologies. It includes a web user interface so that users can enter
and maintain data search terms, keywords and develop an industry library. For
more information visit: https://existec.com/product-category/hazcheck/detect/
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About NCB Group
National Cargo Bureau, the New York based cargo
inspection company and their UK based subsidiary Exis Technologies, have been
developing innovative solutions for the container shipping industry together
since they came together to form the NCB Group in 2018. Their not for profit mission is the Safety of
Life and Cargo at Sea. NCB was formed as a non-profit organisation in 1952, and works closely with the United States Coast Guard.
Exis Technologies’ Hazcheck
Systems have been helping the sea transport chain with regulatory compliance, efficiency and safety in their global operations for 35 years.
Since 2018 NCB and Exis (as NCB group) have developed new solutions including a
Hazcheck Restrictions portal for sharing operator,
vessel and port restrictions among ports and operators; Hazcheck
Inspections, a web-based database and access portal for inspection companies to
plan and enter details of cargo inspections; and Hazcheck
Detect a cargo screening service to identify misdeclared and undeclared
dangerous goods.
For further information please contact:
Melanie Stephenson
Marketing Manager
Exis Technologies Limited
3 Trinity Court
Faverdale North
Darlington
DL3 0PH
UK
T: +44
(0)1325 466672