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  2. UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

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    A UN 4G Doublewall corrugated fiberboard box with dividers for shipping four bottles of corrosive liquid, certified to the Packing Group III performance level. The first version of the Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods was produced by the ECOSOC in 1956. [1]

  3. CMR Convention - Wikipedia

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    The CMR waybill is prepared in three languages. On the back is the text again in three languages. This aids the waybill in being accepted and recognised throughout Europe. Checked by customs and police, a transport document must be present when the shipment is transported.

  4. ADR (treaty) - Wikipedia

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    As of 2010, in the United Kingdom for example, the least restrictive was the tunnel carrying the A299 to the Port of Ramsgate, while the most restrictive were several tunnels in East London, including the Limehouse Link tunnel, the Rotherhithe Tunnel, the Blackwall Tunnel and the East India Dock Link Tunnel.

  5. Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1878 - Wikipedia

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    Due to the ill-effects of the treaty on Goan industry, there was pressure on the Portuguese to terminate the treaty. The government of British India also did not obtain substantial benefit from the treaty. This led to the termination of the treaty in 1892 due to non-renewal of the treaty by the parties. [1]

  6. Freight transport - Wikipedia

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    The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well. " Logistics ", a term borrowed from the military environment, is also used in the same sense.

  7. Containerization - Wikipedia

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    In the US, containerization and other advances in shipping were impeded by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which was created in 1887 to keep railroads from using monopolist pricing and rate discrimination, but fell victim to regulatory capture. By the 1960s, ICC approval was required before any shipper could carry different items in ...

  8. International Container Transshipment Terminal, Kochi

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    Strategically, located on the main east–west global shipping lines and offering draft of about 16 m, Cochin is destined to develop as the premier gateway to southern India, [9] as also offering an alternative to Sri Lanka and Singapore for containers being transshipped for the Indian market.

  9. India–Portugal relations - Wikipedia

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    The US government stopped short of suggesting self-determination for the people of Goa, unready to apply that policy to all other Portuguese holdings worldwide, and would damage USPortugal relations. [30] The American ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, repeatedly requested the Indian government to resolve the issue peacefully ...