Acep Container Inspection

In 1983 the original re examination interval under periodic examination scheme pes was extended to 30 months and the approved continuous examination program acep was adopted as an alternative to provide container owners with a choice of schemes to utilize to meet their container examination requirements.
Acep container inspection. From this screen you can check the status of a specific acep number or by entering a container operator s name check to see which acep numbers are associated with a particular owner. 138 rev 1 adopted june 21 2013. Containers are usually built on the request of the container owners by the manufacturer. Under acep a container is subject to examinations and inspections during the course of normal operations.
An alternative to the periodic examination scheme the approved continuous examination program acep is the container inspection scheme utilized by most major ocean carriers and container lessors to ensure ongoing safety compliance of containers. Sessions are available 24 7 by phone text or online messaging or you can schedule a face to face appointment near your office home or school. If a leased container is found with another acep sticker than the maersk acep sticker container must then be inspected and if container is found in a good and safe condition under the rules of international conversation for safe containers csc a maersk acep sticker must be applied. All containers need to be built based on the iso and csc standards at their base level to be eligible for international transport.
Containers inspected under a continuous examination program must be marked as follows. Acep usa or the country of approval abbreviation 20xx the year in which the acep was approved xxx an assigned acep number. Acep is a container inspection method that effectively ensures container safety and it is important to know what lies behind it. It is one of two approved container safety examination schemes allowed under the csc see below.
About acep acep stands for approved continuous examination program.