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| August 2008 | | Hazardous Cargo Bulletin was established in 1980 to keep its readers up-to-date with safety-critical information on regulatory compliance issues. More than 25 years later the monthly publication is still providing timely news on transport regulations, safety issues, market developments, new products and services of relevance to all those involved in the dangerous goods supply chain. |
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Chemical distribution
All eyes on Orlando
Focusing on the latest regulatory requirements and technical information affecting chemical distributors and related chemical-using industries, OPSEM – the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) Operating Seminar and Trade Show - is arguably the only combined conference and exhibition geared expressly to operations-level employees of the chemical distribution industry.
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| tanks / industrial packaging
Ahead of the wave
For those of you that have just returned from another planet, things on Earth have not been too rosy of late. Oil, steel and indeed practically every commodity essential for industrial production have all been trading at unprecedented high prices, concurrent with an economic slowdown in the west that some commentators believe could well blow up into a worldwide depression of truly epic proportions.
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| Tank containers / tank containers
Action in the Americas
For the last few years, the global tank container industry has been enjoying a period of high demand, high utilisation and more satisfactory pricing dynamics. For operators that focus on markets in North and South America, the story is the same.
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| Regulations
The experts’ experts
As now seems traditional when the RID and ADR experts hold their joint meetings, some of them attend the plenary sessions while others take part in the working groups on tanks and standards. There was a good deal of cooperation between the two groups at the latest meeting, which took place in Bern, Switzerland this past March 25 to 28, since the majority of the references to standards in the two sets of regulations concerned the construction and use of tanks.
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| NOS
Hot to trot
After last month’s tour around the sillier side of Africa, this column returns to Europe for a quick round-up of vaguely hazmat-related nonsense. Our tour starts in Belgrade, Serbia, aboard a British Airways A319 Airbus at the end of June. Our tour is not going to get very far, just like those passengers who had boarded the flight to Heathrow. The operators had to clear the plane after a strong smell halted preparations for take-off.
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| Comment
Lab vs life
Those who know a lot about these things reckon that, on average, out of any 12-bottle case of wine, one bottle is off – it has been ‘corked’ or become tainted. That works out at a failure rate of 8.75 per cent.
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| Tanker shipping
Feast or famine
The very large gas carrier (VLGC) market hit unseasonable record high freight rates last month, because of the limited number of VLGCs open in July, forcing charterers to accept rates which look to break all-time records.
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| Safety
This way up
From the driver’s seat in the cab of an articulated road tanker, the sensation when the trailer starts to roll over is odd: there really is no sensation at all. The first the driver knows about an incipient rollover is likely to be when the top of the tank appears in his rear-view mirror, which may well be swiftly followed by the horizon in front of him rotating by 90 degrees.
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| Storage terminals
Here we are again
The International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA) held its 28th annual international operating conference and trade show this past June 9 to 11 at its usual venue in Houston, Texas. The event proved to be an all-round success with visitors and delegates attending in their droves despite the sweltering temperatures and humidity, even braving the outdoors for the 12th annual ILTA Golf Tournament.
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