Hazardous and non-hazardous chemicals booked after classification — IMDG, IATA and 49 CFR — not after a drum has already arrived at the terminal.
Chemical freight is not a special truck with a logo. It is a UN number, a packing instruction, a carrier that accepts that class on that lane, and documents that match the drums. We quote when those are on the file. We do not accept “it is only a little hazardous” as a classification.
Non-hazardous chemicals move as ordinary FCL, LCL or air. Hazardous cargo moves only on services that accept the class. Our Newark warehouse is a general-cargo floor — it is not a licensed chemical tank farm. Packed DG may be staged where allowed; bulk tanks and restricted classes go to facilities that are built for them, named on the quote.
Flammable, corrosive, toxic and other classes in drums, boxes and IBCs, offered only to carriers and sailings that accept that UN number.
When the SDS says it is not DG, it travels as general cargo — still with a description customs can use, not “chemical products”.
Arranged with operators who own the tanks and the terminals. We are the forwarder on the file, not the tank farm.
The work that actually determines whether a chemical shipment sails: class, labels, declarations and carrier approval.
Ocean IMO for most packed DG. Air only when the class is accepted and the packing instruction is met.
UN number, class, packing group, packing instruction. If you do not have an SDS, we help you get one from the producer — we do not invent a class.
Not every line and not every aircraft takes every class. The quote is an accepted product, or it is a no.
The packing has to match the instruction. Labels and the shipper’s declaration have to match the drums. Then we file the export.
Incompatible cargo is not stuffed in the same box. Destination is pre-alerted. Delivery only to a consignee who can receive DG.
Packed hazardous and non-hazardous chemicals that a carrier will accept on that lane, including many flammable, corrosive and toxic classes. We do not claim every UN number in every warehouse.
49 CFR on the U.S. road legs we arrange, IMDG on ocean, IATA on air. Acceptance is still the carrier’s. ADR applies once the cargo is on European roads under a destination agent.
General packed cargo may be staged in Newark where permitted. Licensed bulk and restricted classes are stored with specialist facilities, not on our general floor.
Then it does not load. We re-offer to a carrier that accepts the class, or we tell you the shipment cannot move as packed. Quietly rolling the dice at the gate is how incidents happen.
SDS, pack type, quantity, origin and destination. Without the SDS we can talk, but we cannot book.