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Air Cargo – Innovation for Dangerous Goods Handling


The air transport industry handles over 1.25 million dangerous goods shipments every year – and manually checking each shipper’s Declaration for Dangerous Goods (DGD) is a complex and often time-consuming task. The International Air Transport


Association (IATA) has recently launched an innovative new solution called Dangerous Goods AutoCheck (DG AutoCheck) which is designed to enhance safety and improve efficiency in the transport of dangerous goods by air, whilst supporting the industry’s goal of a fully digitised supply chain. DG AutoCheck is a digital


solution that optimises certain functions, allowing the air cargo supply chain to check compliance of the DGD against all relevant rules and regulations contained in the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR). Furthermore, addendums to the DGR are immediately applied to the checks. The tool enables electronic


consignment data to be received directly and Optical Character Recognition technology also transforms a paper DGD into electronic data. The system will verify the integrity and completeness of the DGD and provide a graphic representation of the package, with the required marks and labels to support


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Good News from IATA


The new IATA Regulations, effective from the 1 January 2019, will contain one small amendment that will gladden the hearts of all those involved in Dangerous Goods by Air. The current label specifications,


detailed at 7.2.2.3 of the 59th Edition, require a 2 mm wide line at 5 mm inside the edge of the hazard label. Originating from the UN Model


Regulations and initially expected to have been adopted across all transport modes, this requirement has to date only been enforced in relation to air cargo. Readers are likely to be aware of load rejections for breaches of this requirement. On 28 March this year, IATA


decision making. The data is processed and verified automatically using the XML data version of the DGR. DG AutoCheck also enables


ground handlers or airlines to decide whether a consignment should be accepted or rejected during the physical inspection stage by providing a pictorial representation of the package, with the marking and labelling required for air transport.


Implementing the DG AutoCheck


requires cooperation between all stakeholders including shippers, forwarders, carriers and ground handling agents. This new solution is currently in the pilot testing phase, with a full product launch planned towards the end of Q2 2018.


For information on DG AutoCheck, please contact: dgautocheck@iata.org


EU Council adopts emission reduction targets agriculture (non-CO2


A regulation on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions was adotped by the Council of the EU on 14 May 2018 . The regulation sets out binding emission reduction targets for member states in sectors falling outside the scope of the EU emissions trading system for the period 2021-2030. This includes buildings,


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waste management and transport (excluding aviation and international shipping). The regulation resulted from the Commission proposal on effort-sharing from July 2016. Through this regulation, the EU is


brought closer to fulfilling its commitment in the Paris Climate Agreement of cutting GHG emissions by at least 40% by 2030,


issued ‘Guidance Document – Specification of Hazard Labels’ ruling that this requirement makes no contribution to safety and will be removed from the 60th Edition effective from the 1 January 2019. Additionally, the guidance


document indicates that this change is effective immediately with any variation being treated as a minor variation in accordance with Note 2 under 7.2.2.3.1, until such time as the formal change to label specification is effective.


BIFA is grateful to members of the Dangerous Goods Advisory Group for highlighting this amendment.


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in comparison with the 1990 levels. The regulation aims at ensuring


that the EU’s target of reducing GHG emissions by 30% in 2030, compared with the 2005 levels, in the effort-sharing sectors is reached. Following the formal adoption of


the legislation, the regulation will be published in the Official Journal and enter into force 20 days after its publication.


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June 2018


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