Following four recent incidents of dangerous goods occurrences involving undeclared and/or mis-declared lithium batteries in air cargo that were exported from Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region’s Civil Aviation Department (CAD) recently told forwarders, handlers and airlines to exercise "extra vigilance”. Among the four cases, three of them involved lithium batteries which were found emitting smoke during cargo disassembling in the warehouse of the destination or transit stop. In … [Read more...] about Hong Kong warns “extra vigilance” over lithium batteries

Following four recent incidents of dangerous goods occurrences involving undeclared and/or mis-declared lithium batteries in air cargo that were exported from Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region’s Civil Aviation Department (CAD) recently told forwarders, handlers and airlines to exercise "extra vigilance”. Among the four cases, three of them involved lithium batteries which were found emitting smoke during cargo disassembling in the warehouse of the destination or transit stop. In each … [Read more...] about Hong Kong warns "extra vigilance" over lithium batteries