This market leading software provides the ideal tool for ship planning and stowage coordination. It is important for all shippers to comply with these requirements and to be aware which VGM declaration method is best for them i. Clearly it was written some time before the introduction of the SOLAS regulations, but certainly confirms what they were aiming at – accurate weights of containers are important so that the stowage planners can ensure that not only are the containers stowed in order of discharge port – for convenience – but also that heavier containers are stowed near the bottom of the stacks and lighter containers near the top – for safety. Hariesh, thank you for this explanation of a complicated subject which (like air traffic control, rocket science, etc.?) most of us could never contemplate understanding or taking up as a career. Reading BRT stows Bays latitude / Rows longititude andTiers being the height. If we had two 20′ units from the fore it would be bays 1 and 3 but a 40′ would be bay 2. A 40′ stow position is twice that of a teu and takes up an even bay stow number.
