BULK CARGO IMO has come down hard on shippers of direct reduced iron, with specific restrictions on loading conditions. Shipowners still need to be alert to attempts to circumvent those rules, warn underwriters
TEMPERATURE CONTROL Klinge’s redundant refrigerated containers can help shippers meet requirements under the IMDG Code for the transport of certain dangerous goods
MARITIME Everyone wants maritime transport to be as efficient as possible – the public, politicians, IMO and shipowners. But the chemical tanker industry has had to be alert to regulatory changes
MULTIMODAL The UN experts needed to play hurry-up during their final session of the 2009-2010 biennium. Any proposals that did not come with sufficient technical justification were summarily bounced back for resubmission
ClassNK has issued the world’s first type approval for corrosion-resistant steel to the new NSGP®-1 steel manufactured by Nippon Steel Corporation at its Oita Works.
CONFERENCE REPORT Taking a lead in sub-Saharan Africa as far as dangerous goods are concerned, RPMASA convened its second transport and environment conference earlier this year.
GHS One might think that generation of the globally harmonised system of classification and labelling of chemicals would be a finite project but, with a Sub-committee in place, new tasks can always be found – even ten years after it started work
