IMSBC Code group B cargoes

Overview

A Group B cargo is one which possesses a chemical hazard which could give rise to a dangerous situation on a ship.

Be aware that a change occurs on 1 January 2025. Amendment (Amdt) 06-21 (2022 edition) will cease to be valid. 

Amendment 07-23 (2023 edition), which has been in voluntary application since 1 January 2024, will enter into mandatory force on 1 January 2025.

 

DATE Amendment 06-21  Amendment 07-23
 Up to 31 December 2024  In force  May be applied voluntarily
 From 1 January 2025  Not to be used  In force

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A Aluminium ferrosilicon powder, UN 1395
Aluminium nitrate UN 1438
Aluminium silicon powder, uncoated UN 1398
Aluminium smelting by-products or Aluminium remelting by-products UN 3170
Ammonium nitrate based Fertilizer MHB
Ammonium nitrate UN 1942
Ammonium nitrate-based fertilisers UN 2071
Ammonium nitrate-based fertilisers UN No 2067
Amorphous sodium silicate lumps
B Barium Nitrate UN 1446
Boric acid
Brown coal briquettes
C Calcium nitrate UN 1454
Castor beans or castor meal or castor pomace or castor flake UN 2969
Charcoal
Coal
Coal tar pitch
Copra (dry) UN 1363
Copra cake
Copra expeller pellets
Copra meal
D Direct reduced iron (A) - briquettes hot moulded
Direct reduced iron (B) - lumps, pellets, cold moulded briquettes
Direct reduced iron (C) - (By-product fines)
F Ferrophosphorus (including briquettes)
Ferrosilicon UN 1408
Ferrosilicon with at least 25% but less than 30% silicon, or 90% or more silicon
Ferrous metal borings, shavings, turnings or cuttings UN 2793
Fish meal (fish scrap), stabilized UN 2216 anti-oxidant treated
G Granulated nickel matte (less than 2% moisture content)
H Hominy chop
I Iron oxide, spent or iron sponge, spent UN 1376
L Lead nitrate UN 1469
Lime (unslaked)
Linted cotton seed
M Magnesia (unslaked)
Magnesium nitrate UN 1474
Matte containing copper and lead
Monoammonium phosphate (M.A.P), Mineral Enriched Coating
P Petroleum coke (calcined or uncalcined)
Pitch prill (Pencil pitch)
Potassium nitrate UN 1486
R Radioactive material low specific activity material (LSA-1) non fissile or fissile-excepted UN 2912
Radioactive material surface contaminated objects (SCO-1), non-fissile or fissile-excepted UN 2913
S Sawdust
Seed cake containing vegetable oil UN 1386 (a) type
Seed cake containing vegetable oil UN 1386 (b) type
Seed cake UN 2217
Seed cakes and other residues of processed oily vegetables (MHB)
Silicomanganese (low carbon)
Sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate mixture UN 1499
Sodium nitrate UN 1498
Solidified fuels recycled from paper and plastics
Sugarcane biomass pellets
Sulphur UN No 1350 (crushed, lump and coarse grained)
Superphosphate (triple granular)
T Tankage
Timber
V Vanadium ore
W Wood pellets containing additives and/or binders
Wood pellets NOT containing additives and / or binders
Wood products - General ( eg, logs, timber, saw logs, pulp wood, roundwood )
Wood torrefied
Woodchips
Z Zinc ashes UN 1435

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A Aluminium ferrosilicon powder, UN 1395
Aluminium nitrate UN 1438
Aluminium silicon powder, uncoated UN 1398
Aluminium smelting by-products or Aluminium remelting by-products UN 3170
Ammonium nitrate based Fertilizer MHB
Ammonium nitrate UN 1942
Ammonium nitrate-based fertilisers UN 2071
Ammonium nitrate-based fertilisers UN No 2067
Amorphous sodium silicate lumps
B Barium Nitrate UN 1446
Boric acid
Brown coal briquettes
C Calcium nitrate UN 1454
Castor beans or castor meal or castor pomace or castor flake UN 2969
Charcoal
Coal
Coal tar pitch
Copra (dry) UN 1363
Copra cake
Copra expeller pellets
Copra meal
D Direct reduced iron (A) - briquettes hot moulded
Direct reduced iron (B) - lumps, pellets, cold moulded briquettes
Direct reduced iron (C) - (By-product fines)
F Ferrophosphorus (including briquettes)
Ferrosilicon UN 1408
Ferrosilicon with at least 25% but less than 30% silicon, or 90% or more silicon
Ferrous metal borings, shavings, turnings or cuttings UN 2793
Fish meal (fish scrap), stabilized anti-oxidant treated
G Granulated nickel matte (less than 2% moisture content)
H Hominy chop
I Iron oxide, spent or iron sponge, spent UN 1376
L Lead nitrate UN 1469
Lime (unslaked)
Linted cotton seed
M Magnesia (unslaked)
Magnesium nitrate UN 1474
Matte containing copper and lead
Monoammonium phosphate (M.A.P), Mineral Enriched Coating
P Petroleum coke (calcined or uncalcined)
Pitch prill (Pencil pitch)
Potassium nitrate UN 1486
R Radioactive material low specific activity material (LSA-1) non fissile or fissile-excepted UN 2912
Radioactive material surface contaminated objects (SCO-1), non-fissile or fissile-excepted UN 2913
S Sawdust
Seed cake containing vegetable oil UN 1386 (a) type
Seed cake containing vegetable oil UN 1386 (b) type
Seed cake UN 2217
Seed cakes and other residues of processed oily vegetables (MHB)
Silicomanganese (low carbon)
Sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate mixture UN 1499
Sodium nitrate UN 1498
Solidified fuels recycled from paper and plastics
Sugarcane biomass pellets
Sulphur UN No 1350 (crushed, lump and coarse grained)
Superphosphate (triple granular)
T Tankage
Timber
V Vanadium ore
W Wood pellets containing additives and/or binders
Wood pellets NOT containing additives and / or binders
Wood products - General ( eg, logs, timber, saw logs, pulp wood, roundwood )
Wood torrefied
Woodchips
Z Zinc ashes UN 1435
 

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