S.L. 499.1 Art. 77Handling of cargo atAuthority’s direction.

Landing, shipping or transhipping of cargo shall be undertaken at such berths as the Authority may direct and at such places as may have been established for the purpose in accordance with the provisions of the Customs Ordinance.

landing of goods or cargo for transhipment shall be requested, on the form contained in the Fourteenth Schedule, not later than forty-eight hours before the arrival of the ship in Malta, and any such permission, if granted, shall be subject to such conditions as the Authority may impose.

(2) Save with the written permission of the Authority, no person other than the Authority or its contractor may sort or in any other manner manipulate or handle any goods in the custody of the Authority or the contractor, except for the purposes of customs examination.

(3) No stack of cargo or individual item or package or cargo of such weight and of such dimensions as to impose -

(i) a point load in excess of six tons, or

(ii) a static load in excess of four hundredweights per square foot, shall be stacked or handled at the Deep Water Quay.

(4) No mobile crane with a maximum lifting capacity in excess of six tons and no vehicle with a maximum wheel load in excess of nine tons shall be used at the Deep Water Quay.