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Product packaging design: top tips
Product packaging best practice to help you create an effective and appealing packaging design for your company's products
Passports, visas, Driver CPC and licence requirements
The types of travel documents you'll need for road journeys from the UK that cross international borders.
Driver documents required for international road haulage
Documentation for international road haulage drivers to help you keep to schedule and ensure prompt delivery of goods.
Practical steps when moving goods
Guides on the necessary steps your business needs to take when moving goods
Insurance and medical documents for drivers
Drivers of goods vehicles must be aware of the need to safeguard their own and their employers' best interests.
How to use freight forwarding
How freight forwarders can take care of much of the work involved in transporting your goods internationally.
Advantages and disadvantages of using a freight transporter
Balance the expertise and time you have against the convenience and savings a freight forwarder may offer.
Freight forwarders and customs agents and brokers
The role of freight forwarders, customs agents and brokers for customs clearance and transporting goods.
Freight forwarding services
Forwarders deal with many transport and trade issues such as import and export documentation and customs clearance.
Safe transport of goods and materials
Transport choices, costs, risks and legal obligations of transporting hazardous goods, animals, food and waste.
Hazards and risks when transporting dangerous goods
Risks of transporting hazardous substances by road and rail; classification; rules on sea and air transport.
Minimise the risks of transporting goods
Key risks when transporting materials - from damage to goods to theft and fire - and ways of minimising them.
Rules for transporting non-hazardous goods
Your key duties if your business transports food, animals and waste, and where to go for more information.
Transporting dangerous goods by road or rail
Legal requirements on transporting hazardous substances - packaging, labelling, safety equipment and advisers.
How to transport dangerous goods
Meeting regulatory requirements to transport dangerous goods, and the role of the Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser.
Marking and labelling of dangerous goods - suppliers' responsibilities
Make sure you correctly identify your dangerous goods on labels and packaging when transporting them.
Dangerous goods safety advisers qualifications and training
The role of the Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser and how to obtain training for the safe handling of dangerous goods.
Classification of dangerous goods for transport
The nine classes of dangerous goods and how to classify your dangerous goods correctly when transporting them.
Documentation when moving dangerous goods
What documents are needed to accompany dangerous goods in transit and how your business can obtain them.
Packaging dangerous goods for transport
The rules on packaging dangerous goods, how the rules are administered, and what packing products should be used.