Around 30% of all containers has toxic levels of gaseous compounds.
Emitted gases during transport constitute safety risks.
Annually more than 500 million containers are shipped between countries and continents. There are 25 million containers shipped every day. Products emanate dangerous substances such as formaldehyde, benzene, toluene over long sea voyages. Naturally occurring off-gassing chemicals as well as residual levels of fumigants emanating from the goods, constitute safety risk, which may affect uniformed worker upon entering the container.
Today 3000 sea ports connects 9 Million sea routes. Inspections of these containers are done manually, affecting the supply chain and only a small number of containers can be inspected and analyzed manually. Automated inspections of containers radically changes the market and represent the first solution allowing container terminals to create an earnings flow from gas testing business.
1/3 of all containers must be analyzed. 1 in 8 containers contain dangerous substances. There is a total of 750 million containers as of today.
Remote operability: Quantum leap in testing systems.
· Effective Speed 40s/test
· Portable? Yes
· Remote? Yes
· Direct Test Terminal? Yes
· Low cost per test? 100% traffic
Enabling safety and fast measurements.
On any given day, 10 to 30 % of containers travelling globally contain dangerous gasses above acute legal exposure levels emanated by transported materials or which have been fumigated with pesticides for pest control. This fact has been documented by the International Maritime Organization, the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, the Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine, part of the Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection in Hamburg, Australian national health safety official bodies as well as other national and international organizations.
Developed by feedback from the customer.
The GC-UV INSCAN™ system has a market-feedback proven potential to make a difference with regards to the mounting global challenges in the field of containerized transportation safety and environmental control. Through its capabilities the system can deliver a precise and low cost solution for high throughput testing for dangerous substances in Europe’s and the World’s major logistics hubs. The testing capability of the system covers any gas phase chemicals, including fumigation gases for logistics containers, regulated under international and national law as well as any other hazardous gasses routinely found in logistics containers.
Container inspection by customs officers.
Labio´s measurement tools and analyzers can be provided to companies currently performing gas testing on a container unit by container unit basis, principally located in the Benelux region. High quality analytics are specifically required when customs officers inspect containers.
GC-UV technology allows Seaport Container Terminals to create a significant additional earningsflow without any sizeable change in their operations with a strong basis in international law. Port container terminal operators are by international law required to insure the proper identification with regards to the presence and concentration of fumigants and as well as other hazardous gases in the atmosphere inside logistics containers arriving in the terminal. The GC-UV INSCAN™ system is the only technology capable to perform a test without any disturbance to the logistics chain, i.e. without stopping the tested container during its circuit in the maritime terminal. Container gas testing as a revenue generating source is currently not employed at large sea-port terminals mainly due to the requirement for human operators of existing systems, implying a delay in the logistics chain, unfeasible high cost per test as well as a general lack of implementability, as large seaports today have human-free berth operations. In addition, the existing mobile gas identification and quantification systems are notoriously unreliable, as exemplified by the experience of our Netherlands partners.
A new type of analysis – enabling efficient operations.
A second revolutionary GC-UV product generation is represented by the container handling crane mounted automated testing system which brings a radical reduction in cost per test, and critically allows sea port and hinterland container terminals to generate a new revenue flow source, with a solid basis in existing international and national workplace safety and container handling regulations.
