Dunelm organises conferences on topical issues. Its
conference in London on 29 June 2010 addressed misdeclared container weights.
Most people in the maritime industry believe container weights should be
verified before loading on board a vessel. The conference discussed the
weighing of containers in ports and terminals and the considerable problems
involved.
Dunelm's first conference, in 2008, was based on the
MAIB report into an incident involving the shortsea containership Annabella,
which experienced a container stack collapse in the Baltic Sea. Although the
stack collapse did not have any serious consequences, the MAIB report
highlighted a number of important issues that were hotly debated by speakers
and delegates at the conference.
