THE CONTRACTING PARTIES,
RECOGNIZING the need to maintain a high level of safety of human life in
the handling, stacking and transporting of containers,
MINDFUL of the need to facilitate international container transport,
RECOGNIZING, in this context, the advantages of formalizing common
international safety requirements,
CONSIDERING that this end may be best achieved by the conclusion of a
Convention,
HAVE DECIDED to formalize structural requirements to ensure safety in the
handling, stacking and transporting of containers in the course of normal
operations, and to this end
HAVE AGREED as follows :