A visit to the Saigon Premier Container Terminal provided an opportunity for participants on a national container safety workshop (12-15 October) to engage in hands-on mock container inspections and to see and participate in practical demonstrations of testing, inspection, examination, maintenance and control of containers. The class-based part of the workshop on container safety was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. The workshop covered all aspects of the International Convention for Safe Containers, the IMO/ILO/UNECE Code of Practice for Packing of Cargo Transport Units (CTU Code) and relevant parts of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), including the amendments which will make mandatory the verification of the mass of containers, from 1 July 2016. The workshop was held at the request of the Viet Nam Maritime Administration and IMO was represented by Loukas Kontogiannis and two consultants.