Chapter 3.4
Clasification Society 2024 - Version 9.40
Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.205(81) - Adoption of Amendments to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code - (Adopted on 18 May 2006) - Annex - Amendments to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code (Resolution MSC.122(75)) - Part 3 - Chapter 3.4

Chapter 3.4

  3.4.1 Insert a new sentence before the last sentence to read as follows:

 "The provisions of chapter 1.4 do not apply to the transport of dangerous goods packed in limited quantities.".

 Amend the beginning of the last sentence to read:

 "All other provisions ….".

  3.4.2.1 In the first sentence amend "packaged" to read "packed".

  3.4.2.1 Insert a new second sentence to read: "However, the use of inner packagings is not necessary for the transport of articles such as aerosols or "receptacles, small, containing gas"."

 Amend 3.4.4.1 to read:

  "3.4.4.1 Different dangerous substances in limited quantities may be packed in the same outer packaging, provided:

  • .1 the substances comply with the provisions of 7.2.1.11; and

  • .2 the segregation provisions of chapter 7.2, including the provisions in column (16) of the Dangerous Goods List, are taken into account. However, notwithstanding the individual provisions specified in the Dangerous Goods List, substances in packing group III within the same class may be packed together subject to compliance with 3.4.4.1.1 of the IMDG Code. The following statement shall be included in the transport document: "Transport in accordance with 3.4.4.1.2 of the IMDG Code" (see 5.4.1.5.2.2).".

  3.4.5.2 Amend the first sentence to read "Cargo transport units containing dangerous goods in only limited quantities need not be placarded nor marked according to 5.3.2.0 and 5.3.2.1.

  3.4.6.2 Delete.

  3.4.7 Add "*" after "UN Number" and insert the following footnote "The diamond mark is not required.".


Copyright 2022 Clasifications Register Group Limited, International Maritime Organization, International Labour Organization or Maritime and Coastguard Agency. All rights reserved. Clasifications Register Group Limited, its affiliates and subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees or agents are, individually and collectively, referred to in this clause as 'Clasifications Register'. Clasifications Register assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable to any person for any loss, damage or expense caused by reliance on the information or advice in this document or howsoever provided, unless that person has signed a contract with the relevant Clasifications Register entity for the provision of this information or advice and in that case any responsibility or liability is exclusively on the terms and conditions set out in that contract.