- Air: United States (7 August 2004): Chemical released - Lithium-Ion Batteries - A fire destroyed some freight in a container that included lithium-ion batteries at the FedEx hub in Memphis, Tennessee. The freight container had been raised on loading equipment and pushed about halfway onto an airplane bound for Paris, France, when the loading personnel smelled smoke. They stopped loading and removed the smoking freight container.
- Marine: Spain (13 November 2002): Chemical Released: Heavy Fuel Oil - The tanker Prestige, laden with 77,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, broke in two off the coast of Galicia (Spain), spilling an estimated 63,000 tons. Approximately 1,900 km of shoreline was affected in Spain and France. Around 141,000 tons of oily waste was collected in Spain and some 18,300 tons in France.
- Pipeline: Belgium (30 July 2005): Chemical Released: Natural Gas: A pipeline carrying natural gas from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge to northern France exploded in Ghislenghien, Belgium, resulting in 24 fatalities and over 120 injuries. The cause of the accident was damage to the underground high-pressure pipeline from construction activities.
- Rail: United States (6 January 2005): Chemical Released- Chlorine - A freight train traveling through Graniteville, South Carolina, encountered an improperly laid switch that diverted the train onto an industry track where it struck a parked train. The collision derailed 16 cars of the moving train. One car was breached, releasing chlorine gas. Nine people died as a result of chlorine inhalation, with an estimated 250 injuries and evacuation of about 5,400.
- Road: China: (26 October 2008): Chemical Released- Toxic Oil (Creosote): More than 28,000 people in northern China had their water supply cut off after a truck carrying wash oil experienced brake failure and overturned by the Yangjiapo reservoir in Shanxi province. About 30 tons of toxic oil were spilled, contaminating two million cubic meters of the reservoir.
