A new completion guide for the widely used SITPRO Dangerous Good Note was launched yesterday at the first of SITPRO's Simpler Trading seminars, held at the Centre for Life in Newcastle.
The seminar was held to inform traders about the savings they could gain by being aware of the work of SITPRO and its fellow trade facilitators, including SITPRO Aligned Forms like the Dangerous Goods Note.
Gordon Cragge (SITPRO's Director of Trade Practices) shows off the new Dangerous Goods Note Completion Guide, flanked by two of the licensed document printers who supply the forms (l-r: Neil Kipling from Lonsdale Print Solutions Ltd and Stewart Tate from Tate Freight Forms).
SITPRO's Gordon Cragge, who delivered a number of presentations, explained, "The SITPRO Dangerous Goods Note is a vital tool for traders. This update to the Completion Guide will make it easy for traders to comply with the latest changes in legislation that will become mandatory in July."
The Dangerous Goods Note Completion Guide was developed by SITPRO with the assistance of the Freight Transport Association and Chris MacRae, FTA's Global Supply Chain Service Manager commented, "As a trade association representing shippers of goods, the Freight Transport Association has been pleased to work with SITPRO in developing this Completion Guide to their Multi-Modal Dangerous Goods Note. Harmonisation of the different world-wide modal regulatory provisions for the transport of dangerous goods and their associated documentary requirements is a shared objective of FTA and SITPRO so as to help facilitate UK trade. While there is still some way to go in this harmonisation process by the international regulatory bodies involved, the SITPRO Dangerous Goods Note and accompanying Completion Guide are a great help to shippers involved in multi-modal transport."
The Dangerous Goods Note Completion Guide can be downloaded, free of charge, from SITPRO's website at www.sitpro.org.uk/trade/dangerous.html and copies of the Dangerous Goods Note can be bought from SITPRO’s licensed document providers who are listed at www.sitpro.org.uk/documents/licensees.html?type=DOCPRNT.
The next SITPRO Simpler Trading seminar is taking place on 14 June in Coventry. Traders can register for this event or any other seminar in the series at www.simplertrading.co.uk. For further information or additional photos contact SITPRO’s Head of Communications, Paul Hiscock, on 020 7215 8158 or paul.hiscock@sitpro.org.uk 
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Notes to Editors
SITPRO
SITPRO is the UK’s trade facilitation agency and is dedicated to simplifying the international trading process by cutting red tape, through the modernisation of established standards and business best practice. SITPRO is a non-departmental public body funded by the Department of Trade and Industry and undertakes policy work at national, European and international levels.
For further information visit SITPRO's website at www.sitpro.org.uk.
Freight Transport Association
Freight Transport Association represents the freight transport interests of businesses throughout the UK. Its members range from small and medium size enterprises to multi-national public companies and are involved in all modes of transport. FTA members operate over 200,000 heavy goods vehicles, about half the UK fleet, are responsible for 90 per cent of freight moved by rail and 70 per cent of goods shipped by sea and air. This unique multi modal mandate enables FTA to speak authoritatively on all aspects of freight based on the broader transport needs of industry in the economy.
For further information, visit the FTA's website at www.fta.co.uk.
SITPRO News Release - 16 March 2007
Amended - 21 May 2007
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