Container

An article of transport equipment (lift van or other similar structure): – of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use; – specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods, by one or more means of transport, without breakage of load; – fitted with devices permitting its ready stowage and handling, particularly when being transloaded from one means of transport to another; – so designed as to be easy to fill and empty – having an internal volume of not less than 1 m3, except for containers for the carriage of radioactive material. A swap body is a container which, in accordance with European Standard EN 283:1991 has the following characteristics: – from the point of view of mechanical strength, it is only built for carriage on a wagon or a vehicle on land or by roll-on roll-of ship; – it cannot be stacked; – it can be removed from vehicles by means of equipment on board the vehicle and on its own supports, and can be reloaded; NOTE: The term "container" does not cover conventional packagings, IBCs, tank-containers or wagons. Nevertheless, a container may be used as a packaging for the carriage of radioactive material. In addition: "Closed container" means a totally enclosed container having a rigid roof, rigid side walls, rigid end walls and a floor. The term includes containers with an opening roof where the roof can be closed during transport; "Large container" means (a) a container which does not meet the definition of a small container; (b) in the meaning of the CSC, a container of a size such that the area enclosed by the four outer bottom corners is either (i) at least 14 m2 (150 square feet) or (ii) at least 7 m2 (75 square feet) if fitted with top corner fittings; "Open container" means an open top container or a platform based container; "Sheeted container" means an open container equipped with a sheet to protect the goods loaded; "Small container" means a container which has an internal volume of not more than 3 m3.