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30 years ago

A look back at the May 1983 issue of HCB

Thirty years can suddenly seem a long time. Back in 1983, for instance, I was not even a father, let alone a grandfather. And some of HCB’s coverage of the emergency response sector seems positively antique.

30 years ago

Writing from the extremely chilly viewpoint of spring 2013 in London, it is some slight comfort that the April 1983 edition of HCB dealt in large part with matters cryogenic, or at least refrigerated.

30 years ago

A look back at what was in the news in HCB in December 1982

HCB was established primarily to provide information on the transport of dangerous goods, as defined – in effect – by the UN Orange Book.

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.

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.

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? 

30 years ago

Three decades ago a British shipyard was still able to pick up a contract to build a large LPG carrier, something that is unthinkable now.

30 years ago

There is an eerie symmetry between June 1982 and June 2012. Thirty years may have passed but there are some spooky coincidences: a severe recession in the US and Europe; tension (and later outright war) in the Falkland Islands

30 years ago

A look at what was in the pages of the Bulletin in May 1982

One of the interesting elements – ‘joys’ is perhaps too strong a word – of looking back at what the magazine was covering 30 years ago is the identity of the companies mentioned in the editorial or, indeed, those advertising. 

30 years ago

Human beings are remarkably adept at getting used to the way things are. It is, therefore, surprising to look back at old copies of HCB and remember how things used to be. 

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