Brazil Issues More Detailed Rules On Rail Accidents Involving Toxic Spills

摘要

Rio de janeiro—Brazil's Transport Ministry earlier this year issued a resolution that requires companies to file quicker and more detailed reports on railway accidents that may involve the spilling of toxic substances.rnThe measure is intended to improve previous rules on the subject, which it overwrites, the operator of Brazil's biggest cargo railway told BNA July 6.rnA spokeswoman for the Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) mining company told BNA that the resolution (No. 1,431) issued by the National Terrestrial Transport Agency (ANTT), an arm of the Transport Ministry, was "an improvement" over the 2002 ANTT resolution (No. 44) which it replaced.