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**Smooth operations**

	MATERIALS Pressure vacuum relief valves provide protection for atmospheric and low pressure storage tanks against over pressure and over vacuum.

**Are we there yet?**

	ROAD There seem to be few contentious issues involved in the development of the next edition of ADR.WP15's latest meeting dealt decisively with a few questions

**Record growth in LNG carriers**

	It took 34 years for the in-service fleet of LNG carriers to reach 100 vessels and a further eight years for it to break through the 200-vessel barrier. Now, the 300-ship mark has been reached just over two and a half years later.

**Emulsion exploration**

	EXPLOSIVES New provisions and tests for ammonium nitrate emulsions are likely to cause more problems than they solve, argues Ken Price*. Competent authorities are likely to find things just as confusing as industry

**Here comes the science**

	TECHNOLOGY The LNG industry depends for its survival on the correct application of the technologies that allow large volumes of cryogenic liquid to be moved around the world's oceans

**The gathering storm**

	MARKET For two years industry observers have wondered when the gas shipping bubble was going to burst. As the global financial crisis deepens, it seems the time is coming closer

**Open the box**

	CONTAINERS Dangerous goods are not the only hazards that freight containers have to face. Being over-stuffed or badly stuffed can also present dangers, but at least there is now some guidance on how to do things properly

**Buckle up**

	MARKET REVIEW The tank container industry is beginning to feel the squeeze of worsening global market economic troubles – but some see changing conditions as a positive opportunity for the industry down the line

**Perfect pitch**

	CONFERENCE REPORT A hundred years after hazmat regulations were introduced, accidents are still happening. Speakers at the latest DGAC annual conference, representing all sides of the business, looked at what needs to be done

**Lucky seven**

	RADIOACTIVES Significant upcoming changes to the regulations governing the transport of Class 7 materials drew a large crowd to the latest RAMTUC seminar, as the Committee's chairman, David Warden, reports

**In it together**

	SAFETY There can be many hazards hidden inside a freight container. As delegates to the Intermodal conference in Hamburg this past December heard, accurate information is key to ensuring those hazards do not result in incidents

**A breed apart**

	DESIGN ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum played a big part in developing the world's largest LNG carriers.

**Steeled for action**

	ROAD/RAIL With the UN model regulations now providing the paramount set of rules for the transport of dangerous goods, Europe's regulators are more closely concerned with rules governing the construction of transport equipment

**Parisian walkways**

	SHOW REVIEW European industrial packaging buyers turned out in force this past November for the 38th Emballage exhibition, where drum manufacturers and equipment suppliers had on show some innovative ideas

**Out in the cold?**

	TANK CLEANING The success of the European Cleaning Document may be leading to decreasing business volumes for some tank cleaning operations outside the EU