Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR)

Barging through

INLAND WATERWAYS Updates to the ADN Regulations generally harmonise with those for road and rail transport but also have the unique requirement to govern transport in tank vessels. The Safety Committee spent a lot of time dealing with detailed provisions at its final meeting before publication of the 2013 text

Barge Argonon

Broad brush

INLAND WATERWAYS The ADN Agreement is unusual insofar as it deals with cargo shipped in bulk as well as in tanks and packages. The ADN experts therefore have to address a large number of issues that the comparable regulations for land transport in Europe do not touch

Tankers on the Rhine

ADN another thing…

INLAND WATERWAYS With multimodal issues being discussed by the joint experts, the ADN Safety Committee contents itself mainly with issues related to vessel design and operation.

Tankers on Inland Waterway

A toe in the water

INLAND WATERWAYS While the regulations for the transport of packaged dangerous goods by inland waterway in Europe are largely aligned with those for road and rail transport

Plain sailing

INLAND WATERWAYS With a more restricted scope than its road and rail equivalents, amendments to the regulations annexed to the ADN Agreement seem to happen more smoothly than for RID and ADR.

Syndicate content