The International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) adopted new amendments to the Safety of Life at Sea (“SOLAS”) convention that will apply to international shipments and go into effect on July 1, 2016. This amendment will mandate a “verified gross mass” for all shipping containers to which the IMO’s convention for safe containers applies prior to loading aboard a containership. The purpose of this adoption is to further the IMO’s safety mandate because, in the past, intentional and accidental misdeclarations of container weights have been the source of various marine casualties.