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Playing dirty
28 May 2008
The challenge of neutralising undeclared 'dangerous' cargoes passing through ports today is greater than ever, as Stuart Pearcey reports
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Keeping hazards in check
28 May 2008
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.
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Dangerous cargo handling charges debate
28 May 2008
When is a hazard not a hazard? When the classification makes it expensive, if events in Kenya are any yardstick.
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Down and dirty
28 May 2008
Hidden within a perfectly innocent cargo, a dirty bomb is created by combining radioactive nuclear waste material and conventional explosives.





