< span style=" color:red" > NEW!< / span> IEC 60721-3-2:2018 is available as < a href=" https:/ / webstore.iec.ch/ publication/ 62724" > IEC 60721-3-2:2018 RLV< / a> which contains the International Standard and its Redline version, showing all changes of the technical content compared to the previous edition.< / br> < / br> IEC 60721-3-2:2018 classifies the groups of environmental parameters and their severities to which a product is subjected while being transported and handled. The most commonly used methods of transportation and handling have been taken into account, including the following:

- road transport: cars, trucks

- rail transport: trains, trams

- water transport, inland and maritime: ships

- air transport: aircraft, jet, propeller, helicopter

- handling equipment: cranes, transport lifts, cableways, persons

- conveyors

- hand trollies.

This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition, published in 1997, and constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:

a. Clause 1: reworded and added handling.

b. Clause 2: updated normative references.

c. Clause 3: updated definitions.

d. Clause 4: reworded and simplified.

e. Clause 5: revised and updated. Several classes have been replaced by completely new classes based on the use of new information obtained from referenced Technical Reports.

f. Table 1 through Table 5: updated.

g. Table 6 added.

h. Old annexes A to C removed except Clause A.3 that is incorporated in Clause 5.

i. New Annex A.