IMO’s Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC) Sub-committee

Packing up

CONTAINERS Regulators and enforcement agencies continue to be concerned about the number of incidents involving badly packed dangerous goods in containers. A multi-agency work programme will soon deliver revised guidance with the aim of helping shippers pack boxes properly

Two men in safety suits in a container

BADGP of honour

CONFERENCE REPORT Most trade associations perform a Janus-like function, on the one hand disseminating news and information to their members and on the other lobbying on behalf of members to legislators. BADGP’s annual meeting shows both of those functions off in a single day

VOSA staff members wearing company vests

Box clever

MARITIME A one-day event held to discuss the IMDG/ADR interface developed into something of a face-off between shippers and carriers over container weighing. At least it was productive!

Delegates at NI conference 2012

Take your time

MULTIMODAL The last meeting of the joint RID/ADR/ADN experts was a comparatively laid-back affair. A few urgent corrections to the 2013 texts were agreed but much else was remitted for further discussion. The one big change agreed for the 2015 texts is a revision of the provisions for carriage in bulk

Hoyer tank container on truck

Batteries included

MULTIMODAL As is often the case, the third session of the biennium saw the UN TDG experts faced with an enormous agenda. Although some issues were batted back for more work, the meeting did manage to finalise some important changes

Solar Installation Battery Fire

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.

Part of the puzzle

MULTIMODAL The UN experts on the transport of dangerous goods do not act in a vacuum; links with other organisations have become much more evident at recent meetings, with the last session featuring input from the GHS experts, IAEA, ICAO, WHO and other bodies

Air cargo being loaded up onto plane

Read all about it!

MULTIMODAL Anyone who hopes that the UN experts will one day complete the Orange Book and leave well alone will be sorely disappointed; as their last session showed, continuing technological developments continue to raise new problems for the regulators to wrestle with

Man inspecting barrels of hazardous goods

Joint decisions

MULTIMODAL Europe’s surface transport regulators are closing in on the texts that will come into force next year. However, those texts are not yet set in stone and there may be some surprises to come before final decisions are made

Road Signs in Europe

Exception management

CONFERENCE REPORT If the regulations were simpler perhaps there would not be a need for events such as the DGAC annual conference. But they are and there is. And even those who are experts cannot always agree on how to apply them.

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