IS 6928 : 2001 /ISO 6346 : 1995 Freight Containers - Coding, Identification and Marking

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard ( Third Revision ) which is identical with ISO 6346:1995 ‘Freight containers — Coding, identification and marking’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendations of Freight Containers and Pallets Sectional Committee and approval of the Transport Engineering Division Council.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved for publication as Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminology and conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice to use a full point (.) as the decimal marker.