Shipping lithium batteries by air is a challenging task for many shippers – followers of our blog are quite aware of the numerous articles we’ve devoted to the topic over the past several years. While the regulations that have been...
11 questions every e-commerce device maker must ask about lithium batteries
...of lithium batteries? Lithium-ion or lithium metal? If the Bathroomba is rechargeable, it’ll be lithium-ion. How big is your battery? We’re guessing it’s a large-format battery, which means every Bathroomba will be a fully regulated shipment. Your people will need...
With the growing proliferation of lithium batteries, here's how we've got safe shipping covered
Lithium batteries power our lives—from smartphones and power tools to hoverboards and e-bikes. But their potential fire risk is so significant that airlines don’t even allow them in checked bags. The lithium battery chain is now expected to grow by...
"I shipped lithium batteries for that?" The 10 dumbest battery devices
...guaranteed to make parents wish lithium batteries had never been invented. Unfortunately, lithium batteries offer such cheap, reliable power that inventors can make almost any idiotic notion a reality. But these batteries (and the devices they make possible) don’t have...
Confessions of a 3PL hazmat manager: "Lithium batteries are my life."
...information when onboarding a new client, and I oversee training. For the last four years, lithium batteries have been my life. Keeping our clients’ shipments of lithium batteries and battery-powered devices compliant requires due diligence, shipper education and regulatory problem-solving....
IATA Publishes 2018 Guidelines for Passengers Traveling with Lithium Batteries
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today published their guidelines for passengers traveling with lithium batteries and devices that contain lithium batteries. Please download and refer to their full guide here: LithiumBatteryPassengers_March 2018. Some highlights: Effective March, 2018 These rules...
A top 3PL offers e-commerce tips on shipping lithium batteries by USPS
...creates a challenge, too. “It’s made for some unique conversations.” For more details about shipping lithium batteries by mail, visit our page on USPS Publication 52: What You Need to Know Before Mailing Lithium Batteries, or call us at 800.621.5808....
DG Digest: EPA is working on adjustments within the universal waste regulations to improve safety standards and reduce fires from mismanaged end-of-life lithium batteries.
...batteries. Find out more about this effort here: Improving Recycling and Management of Renewable Energy Wastes: Universal Waste Regulations for Solar Panels and Lithium Batteries | US EPA OSHA The agency is issuing an ICR dealing with anhydrous ammonia storage...
DG Digest: Lithium Batteries in the News and PHMSA adds 60 Days to Comment Period on Bulk Flammable Liquid Carriage
...haulers. See the extension here Lithium Batteries In an incident certain to add further impetus to the debate about the propriety of allowing Lithium Batteries aboard aircraft, a female passenger on a Beijing to Melbourne flight suffered thankfully very minor...
Lithium batteries and new technology dominate our top 10 posts of 2017
...McCulloch’s insider’s view into the rules deliberation process. Few were shocked that lithium battery considerations dominated the agendas. Is Obexion the lithium battery shipping breakthrough we’ve been waiting for? Lithium batteries and devices usually ship in conventional cardboard boxes, which...