Friday 5 December 08 - 12:57
 

Cargo Handling: Dangerous Goods

  • Playing dirty

    The challenge of neutralising undeclared 'dangerous' cargoes passing through ports today is greater than ever, as Stuart Pearcey reports
     

  • Keeping hazards in check

    On the European side of the Atlantic, news that a shipment of weapons-ready plutonium was to be taken in an unarmed ship from Sellafield in Cumbria to France caused a media furore recently. The material has to be shipped because Sellafield had to call on its French competitor for help in fulfilling an order. 

  • Dangerous cargo handling charges debate

    When is a hazard not a hazard? When the classification makes it expensive, if events in Kenya are any yardstick. 

  • Down and dirty

    Hidden within a perfectly innocent cargo, a dirty bomb is created by combining radioactive nuclear waste material and conventional explosives.  

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