Responsible Care

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MEETING REPORT @atco held its annual general meeting in Singapore last month, offering a platform to help chemical shippers and logistics providers learn more about tank containers and their effective use in the supply chain. Rahita Elias went along to find out more

Reg Lee and Graham Wood from @TCO

Packed lunch

ASSOCIATION The UK's Chemical Business Association has elected a new chairman while simultaneously dishing out the gongs and raising money for charity at its recent Annual Lunch

Anthony Lyons (L), Melrob HSEQ manager, receives the award from the guest speaker Tony Hawks (R)

To protect and to serve

ASSOCIATION Last month’s issue included a review of Fecc’s 2013 Business Plan, outlining the tasks faced by its numerous working committees. Here director general Uta Jensen-Korte explains what that means in practice for the Association and its members – and the chemical industry at large

Dr Uta Jensen-Korte

Carpe diem

CONFERENCE REPORT Chemical shippers and their logistics partners have a chance to improve profitability and environmental performance but they need to act now. And legislators need to get out of the way. Those were some of the messages from ECTA’s recent supply chain meeting

Dusseldorf city skyline

Care in the community

ASSOCIATION Two years after its formation, @tco is making good progress in fulfilling its goals of promoting the safe use of tank containers in Asia. At its recent AGM in Shanghai speakers gave more details of the initiatives it has started, most notably in cooperation with Chinese shippers

ATCO 2012 AGM in Shanghai

Packed with stats and facts

CONFERENCE REPORT Built on seven hills, the charming Portuguese capital of Lisbon played host to the Fecc Annual Congress when it convened at the Tivoli Lisboa Hotel this past May 22-23

FECC 2012 delegates

All you can eat

ASSOCIATION As the voice of the European chemical distribution industry, Fecc has plenty of matters to attend to, whether in terms of promoting REACH compliance or dealing with the changing sands of international trade

Warehousing the Brenntag way

From the front

TERMINALS One significant outcome of recent accidents at terminals and storage facilities is that operators and users are taking a more structured approach to safety. At last month’s ILTA conference, two cargo owners described how they go about it

Buncefield incident - The aftermath

Distributors flock to RC

The European Association of Chemical Distributors (Fecc) has published its Responsible Care Report 2011, revealing that the level of Responsible Care (RC) compliance has now risen from approximately 40 per cent of member national associations to around 55 per cent.

The long march

CONFERENCE REPORT The UK’s dangerous goods professionals now have their own professional body. It has come a long way in a short time but there is much further to go if its potential to improve standards is to be fulfilled

Delegates watching presentation at FECC 2011
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