Date: 1^st Jan 2005

Re: Korean Laws against overweight

Please take note that Korean Customs will apply to much stricter law for over weight from Jan.03 in 2005. All of carriers, including freight forwarders, who are responsible to declare their manifest to Port Authorities, will be responsible for any differences between weights in shipping documents and actual weights by heavy fines. The customs will consider any of differences as tax evasion nevertheless by mistake.

For bonded transportation, all of cargoes more than 25 tons will not be accepted by the Customs.

For your reference, the thumb Korean rules related to weights on domestic loads are as follows : 

-container upto 40 tons including cargo gross weight + container tare weight + trailer head weight + chassis weight

-upto 10 tons per chassis axle

-upto 2.5m in width

-upto 4.0m in height

-upto 16.7m in length 

If we calculate backward, normally we can say upto 17.5 tons per 20ft, 21 tons per 40ft. These weights vary case by case.  

For above applications are nothing to do with their intention.

 In this respect, please deliver the notice to your customers or any relevant parties in order to avoid heavy penalty. As mentioned, the responsibilities are not only for traders, but also for carriers.