TOOLS FOR THE JOB

摘要

IN APRIL LAST year, Exis Technologies became the software division of the National Cargo Bureau (NCB), a New York-based not-for-profit organisation entrusted with ensuring safety of life and cargo at sea. Exis Technologies and NCB have since been working on several new initiatives to help improve safety in the supply chain. ICHCA International, the cargo handling operative's association, has calculated that of the 60 million packed containers moved each year, 10 per cent are declared as dangerous goods with some ships carrying more than 1,000 containers with dangerous goods on any given voyage. Shipping lines are therefore keen to ensure that dangerous goods are properly classified, packaged, packed and declared throughout the supply chain. Most of the significant ship fires are attributed to incorrectly declared dangerous goods, often exacerbated by criminal non-declaration or fraud.