Shipping stakeholders sign pact against counterfeit goods

BRAND owners and representatives from intent to prevent the maritime transport

The “Declaration of Intent to Prevent the Maritime Transport of leaders from global shipping firms, freight forwarders, brand owners organizations in a meeting organized by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC).

- - the International Chamber of Com and Commercial Crime Service (CCS). More transporters, brand owners and - as awareness grows,” the ICC said in a statement.

The Declaration, which is non - - national trade.” In the agreement the corporate social responsibility prin among other provisions, a commit

According to statistics from the of all international trade moves by million containers on 89,000 vessels. Less than percent of these containers are inspected to verify their contents, - traded internationally per year, with at least 10 percent of that being carried on container ships.

for Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping line, said in a statement on the company’s website. “Maersk has been a leader in taking other illicit goods, and this Declara

pleased to register the ICC/ BASCAP is an association aiming to disseminate best practice and compliance all over the world; we have training programs and services that are aimed - targets of organizations that aim to committed to better trade and this this direction.”

The Declaration was developed as Responsibilities of Intermediaries: 2015 by BASCAP that highlighted have been infiltrated by criminal operations, allowing the movement