TT Talk - What can we get out of a box?
10/01/2023
Read about how innovators seek to digitalise containers with geo-locator tools and the possible results that could be attained in reducing safety risks in the supply chain.
TT Talk - Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors
13/12/2022
The requirement for employers engaged in the transport of dangerous goods by road, rail or inland waterway to appoint a Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor (DGSA) was introduced from 1 January 2000, through EC Directive 96/35/EC
Read more about how transport and logistics insurer, TT Club, advises on container utilisation
Global trade requires goods to circumnavigate the globe through different climatic zones, predominantly involving sea carriage. The standard general purpose freight container, while effective at protecting the cargo within, is unable to prevent the effects of ambient temperature fluctuations and the resultant condensation that this might cause in connection with certain cargo types.
Read more about the progress in dangerous good regulations ten years on from the MSC Flaminia disaster.
TT Talk - Storm preparedness
17/05/2022
TT Club offers risk guidance advice in relation to quay container crane maintenance and changing climatic risk.
TT Talk - Containers in a storm
17/05/2022
TT Club looks at recent storm events to draw risk guidance from ports and shipping container terminals
StopLoss: temperature controlled cargo
16/05/2022
This document is intended to be a practitioner's good practice guide covering all stakeholders throughout the supply chain.
TT Club endorses an important warehouse whitepaper on 'storage and handling of Dangerous Goods in preparation for, or after, sea-transport' issued by four industry organisations.
TT Talk - Lithium complexities
08/02/2022
Exploring the complexities of dangerous goods classification for the transport of lithium batteries
TT Talk - Keeping boxing clever
18/01/2022
TT Club looks at how advances could be made in the design of the standardised freight container