Every day thousands of cargo transport units carrying dangerous goods are carried on ships. These consignments are potentially a major hazard if the dangerous goods inside have not been properly identified to the shipping line. Furthermore, they need to be packed and secured to make them safe against the predictable stresses that the load will endure at sea, particularly in bad weather. Guidance and resources for training personnel in how to safely stow containers for sea is not readily available but the UK P&I Club has launched Book It Right and Pack It Tight — a set of four guidebooks on the workings of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code. The guidebooks are intended to provide safety and critical guidance for those engaged in all the stages of preparing dangerous goods for carriage by sea. Each set of the guidebooks is accompanied with a CD containing presentations that explain the contents of the guidebooks. The four sections are: 1) For Shippers and Forwarders, 2) Shipping Line/Freight Agency Sales, 3) Consolidators and Shipping Container Packers: Managers & Supervisors, and 4) Fork Lift Operators and Cargo Handlers. Copies can be purchased from Marisac.org by emailing shantel.ryan@marisec.org for prices and shipping cost.
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