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- Effective from 1st March 2021
- 149 Chemicals identified as “highly toxic” in Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals (2015 Edition).
- “Other dangerous chemicals forbidden to be transported by inland river” as listed in Catalogue of Prohibited Dangerous Chemicals by Inland River (2019 Edition)- 228 chemicals.
- Chemicals forbidden for transport in bulk – 88 chemicals.
For protection of ecological environment in the Yangtze river basin China enacted new law prohibiting certain chemicals to be transported in Yangtze river. Goods which are prohibited must not be carried by vessels entering Yangtze river effective from 1st March 2021.
Geographical area of prohibition
The Yangtze River basin referred to in this Law covers Qinghai Province, Sichuan Province, the Tibet Autonomous Region, Yunnan Province, Chongqing, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, Jiangsu Province, and Shanghai in the catchment area formed by the main stream, tributaries and lakes of the Yangtze River and related county-level administrative areas of Gansu Province, Shaanxi Province, Henan Province, Guizhou Province, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guangdong Province, Zhejiang Province, and Fujian Province.
Article 2 The Yangtze River Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress
Ports in Yangtze river includes Jiangyin, Jingjiang, Ma An Shan, Nanjing, Nantong, Shanghai, Taicang, Changshu, Taizhou, Wuhan, Yangzhou, Yibin, Zhangjiagang, Zhenjiang, etc. The law is also applicable to Huangpu River.
Yangshan Deepwater Port does not fall under this prohibition.
Penalty for violation
If any carrier is found violating by loading, discharging, or carrying, ROB, with one ore more prohibited chemicals in Yangtze river prohibited areas may be subject to fines not less than CNY 200,000 (USD 31,000) but not more than CNY 20,00,000 (USD 310,000) person directly responsible will be fined not less than CNY 50,000 (USD 7,800) but not more than CNY 100,000 (USD 15,500).
Where highly toxic chemicals and other hazardous chemicals that are prohibited by the State from being transported through inland rivers are transported on water in the Yangtze River basin in violation of the provisions of this Law, the transport departments or maritime administration bodies of the local people’s governments at or above the county level shall order the acts to be corrected, confiscate the illegal income derived therefrom, impose a fine of not less than 200,000 yuan but not more than 2 million yuan, and impose on the person in charge directly responsible and other persons directly responsible a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan. Where the circumstances are serious, the enterprises shall be ordered to suspend production for correction, or the relevant license shall be revoked.
Article 90 The Yangtze River Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress
What is prohibited
In the Yangtze River basin, it is prohibited to transport highly toxic chemicals on water and other hazardous chemicals that are prohibited by the State from being transported through inland rivers. The transport departments of the local people’s governments at or above the county level in the Yangtze River basin shall, together with the relevant departments under the people’s governments at the same level, strengthen the control over the transportation of hazardous chemicals in the Yangtze River basin.
Article 51 The Yangtze River Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress
| Chemicals identified as “HIGHLY TOXIC” in Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals (2015 Edition). | |
|---|---|
| Chemical Name | CAS No. |
| 2-Propen-1-ol | 107-18-6 |
| 3-Aminopropene | 107-11-9 |
| 3-Buten-2-one | 78-94-4 |
| Aldicarb | 116-06-3 |
| Arsenic hydride | 7784-42-1 |
| Arsenic pentoxide | 1303-28-2 |
| Arsenic trioxide | 1327-53-3 |
| Brodifacoum | 56073-10-0 |
| Bromadiolone | 28772-56-7 |
| Brucine | 57-24-9 |
| Dieldrin[content2%～90%] | 60-57-1 |
| Diphacinone | 82-66-6 |
| Disulfoton[content＞15%] | 298-04-4 |
| Endrin(content＞5%) | 72-20-8 |
| Fluorine | 7782-41-4 |
| Fluoroacetamide | 640-19-7 |
| Fosthietan | 21548-32-3 |
| Hydrogen cyanide, anhydrous, stabilized | 74-90-8 |
| Isolan[content≤82%,with more than≥12% water] | 119-38-0 |
| Mephosfalan(content＞5%) | 950-10-7 |
| o-ethyl-o-(4-nitrophenyl)phenyl phosphonothioate (content＞15%) | 2104-64-5 |
| Oxygen difluoride | 7783-41-7 |
| Phosazetim | 4104-14-7 |
| Prothoate(content＞15%) | 2275-18-5 |
| Sodium biselenite | 7782-82-3 |
| Sodium cyanide | 143-33-9 |
| Sodium selenate | 13410-01-0 |
| TEPP | 107-49-3 |
| Terbufos | 13071-79-9 |
| Tetramine | 80-12-6 |
| Dimethyl thiophosphoryl chloride | 2524-03-0 |
| (2-CHLORO-ETHYL)-DIETHYL-AMINE | 100-35-6 |
| (E)-hex-4-en-1-yn-3-ol | 10138-60-0 |
| [2,2′,2”-nitrilotri(ethanol)-N,O,O’,O”]phenylmercury lactate | 23319-66-6 |
| 1,1-Dimethylhydrazine | 57-14-7 |
| 1,2-Dimethylhydrazine | 540-73-8 |
| 1-chloro-3-fluoro-propan-2-ol: 1,3-difluoropropan-2-ol | 8065-71-2 |
| 1-cyano-3-(methylmercurio)guanidine | 502-39-6 |
| 1-diethoxyphosphorylsulfanyl-4-nitro-benzene | 3270-86-8 |
| 1-ethenylaziridine | 5628-99-9 |
| 2,3,4,7,8-PENTACHLORODIBENZOFURAN | 57117-31-4 |
| 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN | 1746-01-6 |
| 2,3-DICHLOROHEXAFLUORO-2-BUTENE | 303-04-8 |
| 2-Chloroethanol | 107-07-3 |
| 2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol | 534-52-1 |
| 2-Mthyl-2-hydroxy propanenitrile | 75-86-5 |
| acetic acid: trimethyltin | 1118-14-5 |
| Aconitine | 302-27-2 |
| Aldrin(content＞75%) | 309-00-2 |
| Antimony pentachloride | 7647-18-9 |
| ANTIMYCIN A | 1397-94-0 |
| Azoic Diazo Component 1 | 96-96-8 |
| BIS(TRIETHYLTIN)SULFATE | 57-52-3 |
| Cadium cyanide | 542-83-6 |
| Calcium arsenite | 27152-57-4 |
| Carbofuran | 1563-66-2 |
| Carbonyl chloride | 75-44-5 |
| Chlofenvinphos(content＞20%) | 470-90-6 |
| Chlorine pentafluoride | 13637-63-3 |
| Chlorine,liquefied | 7782-50-5 |
| Chlormephos(content＞15%) | 24934-91-6 |
| Chlormethine | 51-75-2 |
| Chloromethyl methyl ether | 107-30-2 |
| Chlorophacinone(content>4%) | 3691-35-8 |
| Chloropicrin | 76-06-2 |
| Coumatetralyl | 5836-29-3 |
| Cyanogen chloride | 506-77-4 |
| Decaborane | 17702-41-9 |
| Demeton(content＞3%) | 8065-48-3 |
| Diborane | 19287-45-7 |
| Dicrotophos(content＞25%) | 141-66-2 |
| Diethyl chlorophosphate | 814-49-3 |
| Diethyl mercury | 627-44-1 |
| Diisopropyl fluorophosphate | 55-91-4 |
| Dimefox(content＞2%) | 115-26-4 |
| Dimethyl-4-methylthiophenyl phosphate | 3254-63-5 |
| DIMETHYL-P-NITROPHENYLPHOSPHATE | 950-35-6 |
| Divinyl sulphone | 77-77-0 |
| EMETINE DIHYDROCHLORIDE | 316-42-7 |
| Ethyl chloroformate | 541-41-3 |
| Ethyleneimine | 151-56-4 |
| Fensulfothion(content＞4%) | 115-90-2 |
| Fluoroacetic acid | 144-49-0 |
| Fonofos(content＞6%) | 944-22-9 |
| FUSARENON X | 23255-69-8 |
| Glycolonitrile | 107-16-4 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | 77-47-4 |
| Hydrogen phosphide | 7803-51-2 |
| Ironpentacarbonyl | 13463-40-6 |
| Isobenzan[content＞1%] | 297-78-9 |
| Isocarbophos | 24353-61-5 |
| Isodrin(content＞10%) | 465-73-6 |
| Lactonitrile | 78-97-7 |
| Mercury acetate | 1600-27-7 |
| Mercury chloride | 7487-94-7 |
| Mercury oxide[no pyrophoric] | 21908-53-2 |
| Methamidophos | 10265-92-6 |
| Methane sulfonyl chloride | 124-63-0 |
| METHANESULFONYL FLUORIDE | 558-25-8 |
| Methoxyethyl mercury acetate | 151-38-2 |
| Methyl chloroformate | 79-22-1 |
| methyl fluoroacetate | 453-18-9 |
| Methyl isocyanate | 624-83-9 |
| Methylhydrazine | 60-34-4 |
| Mevinphos(content＞5%) | 7786-34-7 |
| Monocrotophos[content＞0.5%] | 6923-22-4 |
| N-(4-bromophenyl)-2-fluoro-acetamide | 351-05-3 |
| N,N-Dimethylaminoacetonitrile | 926-64-7 |
| NICKEL CARBONYL | 13463-39-3 |
| Nicotine | 54-11-5 |
| NICOTINE SULFATE | 65-30-5 |
| Octafluoroisobutene | 382-21-8 |
| Osmium tetroxide | 20816-12-0 |
| Oxymetazoline Hydrochloride | 2315-02-8 |
| Paraoxon | 311-45-5 |
| Parathion(content＞4%) | 56-38-2 |
| PCP | 87-86-5 |
| Pentaborane | 19624-22-7 |
| Perchloromethyl mercaptan | 594-42-3 |
| Phenyl dichloroarsine | 696-28-6 |
| Phenyl isocyanate | 103-71-9 |
| Phenyl mercaptan | 108-98-5 |
| Phosfolan(content＞15%) | 947-02-4 |
| POTASAN | 299-45-6 |
| Potassium cyanide | 151-50-8 |
| Potassium silver cyanide | 506-61-6 |
| Propargyl alcohol | 107-19-7 |
| Propionitrile | 107-12-0 |
| Propyleneimine,stabilized | 75-55-8 |
| S-[2-(Diethylamino)ethyl]O，O-diethylphosphorothioate | 78-53-5 |
| SAXITOXIN | 35523-89-8 |
| Schradan | 152-16-9 |
| silatrane | 29025-67-0 |
| Sodium azide | 26628-22-8 |
| Sodium fluoroacetate | 62-74-8 |
| Strychnine | 357-57-3 |
| Sulfotepp | 3689-24-5 |
| Tetraethyl lead | 78-00-2 |
| Tetranitromethane | 509-14-8 |
| Thallous sulfate | 7446-18-6 |
| Thimet;Timet;Phorate;AC-3911 | 298-02-2 |
| Thiofanox | 39196-18-4 |
| Thionazin(content＞5%) | 297-97-2 |
| Thiophosphoryl chloride | 3982-91-0 |
| Triamiphos[content＞20%] | 1031-47-6 |
| Tributylamine | 102-82-9 |
| triethyltin acetate | 1907-13-7 |
| URACIL MUSTARD | 66-75-1 |
| VACOR | 53558-25-1 |
For full list of prohibited chemicals refer to OASIS P&I Circular. Or look up with CAS number, chemical name in English or Chinese at Asia-Pacific Chemical Inventory Search System (APCISS)
How to ensure compliance
- Listed chemicals when part of mixtures may/will be subject to prohibition.
- Good prohibited in bulk may be subject to prohibition in packaged form.
- Carriers may add add chemical names & synonyms in their booking system to trigger warning if booked vessel/barges may call prohibited ports, transit prohibited areas.
- At initial booking stage verify cargo details including CAS numbers, UN No, if goods are prohibited in Yangtze river reject.
- When in doubt check with local expert or take clearance from Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) Shanghai
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