Glossary

A.D.R.
A.D.R. regulations concern transportation of dangerous goods by truck only (Italian Directive Number 94/55/CE) and were accepted in Italy with D.M. dated September 4th, 1996 and published on the the attachment to the G.U. Number. 211 dated December 2nd,1996.
A.D.R. (Agreement pour le transport de materies Dangereuses par Route) is an international agreement that determines packaging and labels, security equipment on board, maximum quantities loaded on trucks and everything else that can reduce shipping and contamination risks.

Every company and each function inside it must apply ADR standards (production, warehousing, marketing, processing, transport or sales) if handling these goods, called dangerous according to the A.D.R. code.
Furthermore with D.M. Number 40 dated February 4th, 2000 published on G.U. dated March 3rd, 2000, our government created a new role: the ADR consultant.
The penalties for failure to appointment by the company ADR consultant provided leads to a penalty from 1.549,38 a 9.296,23 Euro. The failure to notify the name of mctc instead involves a penalty from a 3.098,74 Euro 516.46.

Messaggerie del Grada's expert is at your service to explain theory and practice of managing dangerous goods according to the A.D.R. regulation.

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DAMAGE
Damage is considered the total or partial breakage of goods during transportation and/or during loading/unloading.

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STOPPAGE
If delivery fails for any reason, a "stoppage process" starts. We call the shipper explaining the reasons why our delivery wasn't successful, then the shipper can decide to try and deliver again or take the shipment back.

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FREE PORT FORWARDINGS
It’s the condition based on which shipping costs are paid by the shipper and not by the receiver.

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CARRIAGE FORWARDING
It’s the condition based on which shipping costs are by the receiver.

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TRACKING OR TRACING
Tracking a package means knowing the sequence of warehouse and/or vehicle passages till final delivery.

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ROAD TRANSPORT
Any shipment that, from beginning to end, is made by truck only 

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MODAL TRANSPORT
It's a delivery obtained through different means of transportation

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AIR TRANSPORT
The air transport is normally the fastest one and it can usually be done for any package dimension 

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SEA TRANSPORT
Sea shipments can be made through special trucks

The main container categories are three:

FLAT-RACK: it is an entirely open flatcar, loadable/downloadable from above, using its whole length and equipped to anchor the commodities to the bottom of it. It is particularly suitable to transport great machineries, indivisible commodities and, more generally, anything that can travel uncovered.

DRY-FREIGHT: it can be also defined as box for its characteristic of being entirely closed with the only possibility of loading/unloading through the double back gate.

OPEN-TOP: This container has the same characteristics of the dry-freight one, but it can be loaded/unloaded from above thanks to the removable roof.

Please Note: Container capacities in this page are an estimate.The actual container capacity will be given after having details of the shipment. 

In case of a small shipment, the commodity can be unloaded at the harbour, where we will put it together with other compatible ones.

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RAILWAY TRANSPORT
We also transport using railway wagons.
 
The wagon is usually taken from the rails and moved to the loading place through equipped trailers (extraordinary load). Thanks to the FF. SS. service the trailer can be also loaded on the wagon with its tractor.