MANAGING THE TRANSPORT SUPPLY CHAIN: A NEW WORLD NUCLEAR TRANSPORT INSTITUTE WORKING GROUP

The WNTI, through its membership, is dedicated to ensuring the safe, effective and reliable transport of Radioactive Material (RAM). To further this aim, over the past few years, the WNTI has set up a number of Working Groups to study issues that are relevant to RAM transport and are of particular importance to the WNTI membership. The Transport Supply Chain Working Group proposes to WNTI members to put in common means to achieve quality of RAM transport operations through the management of the Supply chain, i.e. the development, maintenance and ongoing management of supply chain routes and their associated processes. The management of RAM based supply chains generally comprise a mix of process based nodes involving direct or indirect process control mechanisms together with the need for the monitoring of activities by Consignors. The diversity, extent and need for such process control mechanisms and monitoring will depend on the type of RAM being transported, the geographical nature of each supply chain route along with any social or political sensitivities surrounding such transports from time to time. The purpose of this Working Group is to meet international regulatory compliance whilst consistently ensuring the highest possible quality outcomes across and for all transport operations involving RAM.