Cristina Martinez of the Barcelona law firm Indeco tells us that on 14 January the Spanish government introduced regulations requiring all freight containers to comply with the 1972 Safe Container convention.
US President Harry S Truman famously had a sign on his desk that proclaimed "The Buck stops here". Iain Sharples of the Club's Sydney office reports that the Australian government is following that example and introducing legislation to make sure that responsibility for container overloading ends with the company that did it.
