With no railroads to speak of, Venezuela relies almost exclusively on trucks for domestic transport of its vast volumes of mining, petroleum, chemical and other products—to say nothing of hazardous waste. Yet officials here say there’s a dearth of regulations on hazardous-materials transport. To address it, the government has unveiled draft legislation spelling out an array of reporting and safety requirements. The bill, currently being circulated to public and private industry groups for comment, was drafted by three agencies—the Infrastructure Ministry (Minfra), the Energy and Mines Ministry (Mem) and the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry (Marn). It seeks to combine provisions of the nation’s Law of Dangerous Substances, Materials and Waste, with those of the Law of Land Transport and bring them... [Log in to read more]