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30 years ago

The big news in the November 1982 issue of HCB was that IMO’s Carriage of Dangerous Goods Sub-committee was debating long and hard on whether to include marine pollutants in the IMDG Code.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

In my capacity as Chairman of the International Confederation of Container Reconditioners (ICCR), I write to express my extreme dismay about a recent article, Pushing the agenda

From the Porch Swing

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

“Hey, Gene,” I was told, “you missed the point on that reverse logistics column you wrote.”

October
2012

A snog for Europe

It doesn’t seem all that long ago that Europe ruled the world – or at least, that was the version of history we were taught at school.

30 years ago

A look back at the pages of the Bulletin from 1982

Cast your mind back thirty years – if you are old enough. Containerised transport was still something of a new idea, and back in the October 1982 issue of HCB there was plenty of discussion about what it meant for the transport of dangerous goods.

Pass it on

Well, that’s summer out of the way. Is it just me or does it get shorter every year? Looking at the diary, perhaps it’s not personal.

From the Porch Swing

Madam, I’m Adam.

Oops, I wrote that backward. It should have read madA m’I ,madaM. Oh, wait, if we ignore the punctuation marks and spaces, it still says the same thing!

30 years ago

A look back at the pages of HCB in 1982

Sometimes, looking back at old copies of the Bulletin, it is alarming to see how little has changed. Does that mean our efforts have been in vain, or is it a reflection of the underlying need for potentially dangerous goods to be moved around the world in safety?

Book 'em, Danno

When reports first started arriving of the explosion aboard the containership MSC Flaminia on July 14, observers were quick to compare it to the destruction of Hyundai Fortune back in 2006.

From the Porch Swing

PINK ELEPHANTS

For the next 60 seconds you may think of anything you want, except Pink Elephants.