Accounting as inventory or fixed asset

Kalyan Chakravarty (Student) (76 Points)

30 May 2012  

There is company which stores lpg received from Ships through sea.

In this process it has bought Life Saving Jackets used for maintainance purpose.

Does above has to be categorised as part of inventory or capitalised under fixed assets?

If answer is inventory does it any way comes near to definition of tools, stores, etc??

Please reply asap.