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Nicer Globe This intervention has helped the chemical companies, logistics vendors, crews and agencies to do the risk analysis of their logistics chain, infrastructure, resources and enabled them to take informed decisions before planning the delivery of every consignment. Introduction of technology like GPS has helped manufacturers to track the cargo in real-time. ICC has also created a platform and collaborated with hospitals, fire stations, disaster management authorities etc. across the country and brought them together. The online platform launched for Nicer Globe by ICC provides faster co-ordination and information exchange between various stakeholders for the logistics across the country.ImpactTransportation of chemicals is a key challenge and risk identified by Indian Chemical Sector. Establishing standards for the transportation safety, enabling emergency response infrastructure services, fostering mutual co-operation and co-ordination within the chemical sector was highly required for creating sustainable value chain. The risk of chemical hazards due to road accidents was also need to be averted keeping the l a rg e r i n t e r e s t o f e nv i r o n m e n t a l conservation and social responsibility in view.ChallengeSolutionTo avert hazards due to accidents while transporting chemicals, Indian Chemical Council (ICC) has launched a program named %u2013 %u201cnicer globe%u201d on Transport Safety, with Dorf Ketal being the stalwart in chemical sector part of this program. This program intends to create awareness, providing training to the transport vendors, crew members, security agencies and the employees of chemical industry, responsible for the chemical logistics function. This program further aims to establish standardised procedures and mandates the use of necessar y technologies & instrumentation along with safety operating procedures for the offsite and onsite capacity building. The program further intends to set up SOPs for co-ordination and collaboration between various stakeholders including disaster management authorities.58