Lithium Battery by Air

¡P HKCAD Leaflet on ¡§Safe Transport of Lithium Batteries by Air¡¨ »´ä¥Á¯è³B¦³Ãö¾Y¹q¦À¦w¥þ¯èªÅ¹B¿é³æ±i

The HKCAD has prepared a leaflet in order to increase the public awareness regarding the requirements on transporting the lithium battery by air. The electronics version of such leaflet can be downloaded at the following CAD website:
http://www.cad.gov.hk/english/pdf/Leaflet_lithium%20battery_May2011.pdf (English version)
http://www.cad.gov.hk/chinese/pdf/Leaflet_lithium%20battery_May2011.pdf (Traditional Chinese version)

¡P NEW Dangerous Goods Best Practice 009 ¡V ¡§Best Practice for the Acceptance of Cargo Consignment containing Lithium Cell / Battery by Airlines in Hong Kong¡¨, jointly issued by the Dangerous Goods Working Group under the Carrier Liaison Group (CLG-DGWG)and HAFFA

- BP009 (With effect from 01 Jan 2011) ^{NEW (10 Dec 2010)}

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In response to the changes in the 52^nd Edition IATA DGR (2011) (with effect from 01 January 2011) particularly on the lithium battery, the CLG-DGWG has finished the BP reviewing process as new BP009.

Please note the number of the best practice will change from "BP008" to "BP009" to avoid confusion in the market. That means, ¡§Dangerous Goods Best Practice BP009¡¨ will replace ¡§BP008¡¨ with effect from 01 January 2011.

¡P Below area (phrase highlighted in yellow) is the only amendment for you take note in BP 009:

(1) Revised Step under Section C of Part 1:

- Step 1: Information on MAWB in the ¡§Nature and Quantity of Goods¡¨ Column (instead of Additional Handling Information)

1. The type of cell or battery:

¡P Lithium ion cells / Lithium ion batteries / Lithium metal cells / Lithium metal batteries

2. The text: ¡§Not Restricted¡¨

3. The relevant Packing Instruction: ¡§PI965 / PI966 / PI967 / PI968 / PI969 / PI970¡¨

¡P Lithium Battery Handling Label

In addition to the new BP009, Member please be advised of the following points regarding Lithium Battery Label:

1. An allowance has been made for the lithium battery handling label to be reduced in size to not less than 74 mm ¡Ñ 105 mm where the packages are of dimensions such that they can only bear smaller labels.

2. For those packages containing both types of batteries, the label must show ¡§Lithium metal and lithium ion batteries¡¨.

For details, please refer to subsection of 7.2.4.7 of the 52^nd Edition of the IATA DGR (2011).

¡P Other relevant links:

- IATA webpage on Lithium Battery:

http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dangerous_goods/Pages/lithium_batteries.aspx

- IATA Guidance Document on Transport of Lithium Metal and Lithium Ion Batteries:

à Year 2011 version: ^{NEW (28 Dec 2010)}

Guidance Document for Lithium Batteries:

http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dangerous_goods/Documents/Guidance Document on the Transport of Li-Batt_2011.pdf

Packing Instruction (PI) for Lithium Batteries:

http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dangerous_goods/Documents/PI965-970 from DGR52_English.pdf

- Significant changes and amendments to the 52nd Edition (2011) of the IATA DGR ^{NEW (10 Dec 2010)}

http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dangerous_goods/Documents/DGR52-significant-changes.pdf.

-IATA: 2011 Packing Instruction Transition Guidance ^{NEW (10 Dec 2010)}

The 52nd Edition of the Dangerous Goods Regulations contains all the reformatted packing instructions developed over the last 4 years by the ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel. The ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel has agreed to a 3-month transition period to allow shippers to take care of any ¡§in-stock¡¨ dangerous goods shipments. The transition period allows for packages prepared on or before 31 December 2010 in accordance with the 2010 edition of the DGR to be accepted for transport until 31 March 2011. DGR Reference 5.0.6.2 contains a note to this affect. Where this transitional provision is being used the shipper must indicate on the Shipper's Declaration the packing instruction number in effect in the 51st edition. In this instance the date on the Shipper¡¦s Declaration should be the date the document was prepared, i.e. a date up to and including 31 March 2011.

Please download the relevant documents at the following IATA¡¦s website:

2011 Packing Instruction Transition Guidance: ^{NEW (28 Dec 2010)}

http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dangerous_goods/Documents/DGR52_PI Transition Guidance.pdf

Packing Instructions ¡V 52^nd Ed Appendix H

http://www.iata.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/Documents/IATARefomattedPackingInstructionsOctober2008.pdf

Current and new packing instruction numbers for each entry in Table 4.2:

http://www.iata.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/DGlistbyPIwithnewnosOct08.xls

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Updated: 17 Jul 2011