RE: Licensing Radioactive Material Offshore Africa

[Doug Aitken <daitken@sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com>]

At 05:29 PM 8/13/2004, you wrote:

>............. If as it appears they are being shipped to Angola and the

>government of Angola does not have licensing requirements, then what if any

>requirements are imposed by the shipping organization.  I would think that

>there may be requirements the shipper has to meet to deliver the source

>material (e.g. only shipping to an organization licensed to receive the

>material).



AFAIK, provided you have an import permit to bring the material into 

Angola, and meet all ICAO/IATA requirements for shipping (packaging, labels 

and marks, paperwork), that is all that is needed.

Doug



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