Container Owners Endorse Common Interchange Inspection Criteria

Designated the ‘Common Interchange Criteria’ (CIC) uses a standard launched last year following two years detailed research of container damage by three leasing companies – Triton Container International, Florens Container Services and Container Applications International.

The revised inspection criteria is based on UCIRC (the shipping line industry’s in-service inspection standard) and the Institute of International Container Lessors’ IICL-5 interchange standard.

Following the COA’s endorsement and adoption by its members of the CIC, companies using this standard will not only encompass its three originators but also GE SeaCo, which previously operated its own interchange criteria.