Packagings, containers and transport units

A vehicle, a wagon, a container, a tank-container, a portable tank or an MEGC.

A combination of packagings for carriage purposes, consisting of one or more inner packagings secured in an outer packaging.

A combination of an outer packaging and an inner receptacle that constitute an integral packaging when assembled, used as a single packaging unit for filling, storage, carriage and emptying.

A pressure receptacle of a water capacity not exceeding 150 L.

A flat-ended or convex-ended cylindrical packaging made out of metal, fibreboard, plastics, plywood or other suitable material.

A packaging that previously contained dangerous goods, is empty and uncleaned, and remains subject to the rules applicable to the goods last carried.

A full container load is a container used by a single shipper for a single consignment; a less than container load is a container in which consignments from several shippers are consolidated, which requires segregation to be verified between all the goods stowed in the unit.

Intermediate bulk container: a rigid or flexible portable packaging, other than those, that has a capacity of not more than 3 m³, is designed for mechanical handling, and is resistant to the stresses produced in handling and carriage.

A packaging for which an outer packaging is required for carriage.

Packing of two or more different dangerous goods in the same outer packaging, when authorised by the applicable mixed-packing provisions.

An enclosure used by a single consignor to contain one or more packages and to form one unit for convenience of handling and stowage during carriage.

The complete product of the packing operation, consisting of the packaging or large packaging or IBC and its contents prepared for carriage.

Numbered instruction (P, R, IBC, LP series) detailing the types of single, combination, IBC or large packagings authorised for an entry of the Dangerous Goods List.

A special packaging into which damaged, defective, leaking or non-conforming dangerous goods packages, or dangerous goods that have spilled or leaked, are placed for purposes of carriage for recovery or disposal.

A packaging that does not require any inner packaging in order to perform its containment function during carriage.

A shell, including its service and structural equipment. When used alone the term covers tank-containers, portable tanks, demountable tanks and fixed tanks, including tanks forming elements of battery-vehicles or MEGCs.

Aircraft container or aircraft pallet with its net that forms a single load unit for carriage by air. Dangerous goods loaded in a unit load device must be identified in the notification to the captain.

Gross mass of a packed container obtained by weighing the container, or by weighing its contents and adding the tare mass, which the shipper must verify and communicate before the container is loaded on board, as required by regulation VI/2 of the SOLAS Convention.