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MARICHEM 80 (continued from page 28) rier personnel; despite various differences in approach, each speaker will begin with the pre- mise that "safety starts with a well-trained crew."

A detailed survey of chemical carrier "incidents" leads Don

Butcher of Northeast London

Polytechnic to ask, "How safe are chemical tankers?" Mr. Butcher is a well-known contributor in the chemical transportation / safety field, and the results of his sur- vey are bound to be of consider- able interest.

Panel On Tank Containers

Part of the conference program will debate a subject of growing importance, and one that has probably caused more concern for safety than any other aspect of bulk chemicals carriage: the ques- tion of multimodal tank contain- ers in the chemical trades. While the legislators appear to have cov- ered adequately the various cate- gories of ship/cargo combinations in the chemical parcel trades, it remains a fact that large quan- tities of bulk chemicals are being shipped around the world in tank

MARICHEM EXHIBITORS

Atlantic Rhederei W. Germany

Avesta Jernverks Sweden

Beldam Packing & Rubber U.K.

BOC TechSep U.K.

British Brown Boveri U.K.

Bran & Luebbe U.K.

Braunschweiger

Flammenfilter W. Germany

BSL Bignier Smid Laurent France

Camrex U.K.

CEMAN Special

Container W. Germany

Centromor . . . . Poland

Clouth Gummiwerke W. Germany

Compagnie des Containers

Reservoirs France

Containers & Pressure

Vessels Eire

John Davis & Son (Derby) . . U.K.

Enraf Nonius Netherlands

F.T.L. Company U.K.

Holec Gas Generators Netherlands

Hugonnet France

Jonkopings Mek.

Werkstad . Sweden

Kockums ... Sweden

Paul Lindenau W. Germany

M & J Industrial

Equipment . . Denmark

Frank Mohn A/S Norway

Ml Engineering U.K.

A/S Nor Marine Norway

Norske Telektron Norway

NYBY Uddeholm Sweden

O&K Orenstein &

Koppel W. Germany

Orval Tank Containers . . France

SAAB Marine Electronics Sweden

Shirlstar Container Transport U.K.

Skarpenord Norway

Sperry Marine Systems U.K.

K.O. Storck W. Germany

Svanehoj Trading Denmark

Thyssen

Edelstahlwerke W. Germany

Tofte & Jorgensen Denmark

Unitor Ships Service Norway

Viking Stavanger Norway

Westcode Systems—Westinghouse

Brake & Signal Company U.K.

Westerwalder Eisenwerk

Gerhard W. Germany containers aboard normal RO/RO and cellular containerships.

The tragic results from a leak- ing container, safely stowed in a cellular containership hold, occu- pied the media a few years ago.

A good deal of work has been done since then to attempt to pre- vent a recurrence of this kind of accident, but there is much to be done and the whole question of hazardous chemicals in intermodal tank containers must be subjected to careful scrutiny.

A major company specializing in this trade reports that there is no legislation governing the quali- fications of transport companies to carry hazardous materials and that the whole business is in dan- ger of being led, under-regulated, towards a possible crisis.

Three major operators will be represented on the tank contain- ers panel: Trafpak, by managing director John Ross; Bell Lines by

Roy Boneham, who is also secre- tary of the newly formed Asso- ciation of Tank Container Opera- tors; and British Rail by Peter

Mabbit. This panel also will in- clude Bernd Schulz-Forberg from

B.A.M., Berlin; Ch. Leclair of the

French Department of Naviga- tion ; and M. Querci of the French

Ministry of Transport. Lt. Kevin

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