Container Inspection (Offered in Arabic Only)

Course details

Course Outlines:

• The reasons for terminal inspection of containers
• The circumstances of container inspection
• The equipment interchange receipt
• Gate inspection procedures for containers traveling by road
• Gate inspection procedures for containers entering or leaving by rail or inland waterway
• Inspection procedures for containers not passing through the gate
• Container ‘identification’ deficiencies
• Container ‘condition’ defects
• The steps in container condition inspection
• Responses to ‘identification’ deficiencies detected during inspection
• Responses to ‘condition’ defects found during inspection.

Course Objectives:

This Unit is designed:

• To explain why containers should be inspected on entry to and departure from the terminal.
• To review the circumstances in which containers are examined in the terminal.
• To describe the documentary and practical procedures to be followed when inspecting containers.
• To survey the types of defect to be looked for in container inspection, and to outline the criteria and standards relating to severity of defect.
• To describe the actions to be taken when container defects are detected.