GOING GLOBAL

摘要

THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT of dangerous goods by air and sea are regulated by agreements to which virtually all countries of the world are signatories. The same is not true of international transport by land either by road or rail. To some extent this is understandable. While air and maritime transport are global businesses and thus deserve a consistent, global set of standards, road transport is hardly ever more than regional in nature. There is, therefore, no need for the rules in place in Europe to be equivalent to those in, for example, North America.