The nature of chemical products, and their potential for human and environmental contamination, justifies the importance of full understanding and knowledge of the particularities of risks and classifications.

Our experience since 1979 has confirmed that chemical products require specialisation in their processing, storage, transport and distribution.

There exists, in addition, other motives equally important:

• Location of the clients. Being located outside of commercial and industrial routes, serves to increase risks in the processing and transport in vehicles, especially those that are incompliant with norms.

• Image. In the case of infractions of and noncompliance with the published regulations for highway transport and those of the ADR, including all updates, the first impact is on the name of the product and the company that commercialises or promotes it, with short- and long-term consequences that can be difficult to quantify.

• Changes in the commercialisation of products. Today, not all clients have available warehouses meeting the regulatory norms, or are inadequate with respect to the latest regulation of such facilities. And the establishment of such facilities can be very costly due to the required quality of construction, equipment and location.

Today, we see clients in the chemical and agrochemical sectors assuming reduced financial costs in stock, thereby reducing the inherent risks of stored merchandise. For this reason and others, the market tendencies include: increasing the number of orders, reduction in the size of orders and shortening of the delivery times.