Iata lithium battery guidance document 2020 apcs cargo page 2 12 12 2019 definitions lithium battery the term lithium battery refers to a family of batteries with different chemistries comprising many types of cathodes and electrolytes.
Lithium ion battery sticker for shipping.
Shipping of lithium ion cells 60 wh and batteries 300 wh and lithium metal cells 5 grams lithium per cell and 25 grams per battery as fully regulated class 9 hazardous materials.
Damaged defective or recalled batteries are forbidden for air transport.
As more new e commerce companies depend on cheap efficient rechargeable battery power transport of lithium batteries by mail will only grow.
Lithium ion battery or lithium metal battery and shipper must complete phone number.
For the purposes of the dgr they are separated into.
For information on specific country restrictions please see the postal explorer or the individual country listings of the international mail manual.
Distinctive handling label lithium ion batteries this label must be at least 110 mm 120 mm and be on the outside of a package containing lithium ion batteries.
The long awaited dot phmsa interim final rule ifr enhancing the safety provisions for lithium batteries transported by aircraft appeared in the federal register this week on march 6th.
Distinctive handling label lithium metal batteries.
If you ship what we call excepted lithium batteries you will need to start using the lithium battery mark seen below.
Customers can take to their local post office packages containing lithium batteries installed in electronic devices that are bound for many international destinations and army apo fleet fpo and diplomatic post office dpo locations.
One of the thorniest topics in pub 52 is lithium batteries.
Label lithium battery mark lithium battery label figure 1 figure 2 figure 3 figure 4 forbidden in passenger aircraft 6 cargo aircraft only shipper must add un number s.
However batteries which have some other defective feature e g batteries with the incorrect model number on the label or batteries not holding enough charge could still be shipped by air.
This includes class 9 batteries that are packed with and contained in equipment.
Lithium ion battery warning label 4x2 inch for lithium ion transport shipping and mailing white 1 roll 300 labels per roll 5 0 out of 5 stars 3 10 46 10.
Lithium ion cells 20 wh lithium ion batteries 100 wh.
Not surprisingly shipping lithium batteries by mail is even more complicated than shipping them by other means.
Excepted cells batteries are defined as.
It should be 12 mm high and shipper must complete phone number portion of label.