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the guidance document, please direct these in the first instance to the CAA: neil.williams@avsec.caa.co.uk. Are your Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) certi fi cates up to date? To meet the registration requirements of an IATA accredited agent or intermediary, it is crucial that a company demonstrates evidence that it employs individuals with a valid certification on Acceptance of Dangerous Goods Consignment training. In order to maintain accredited status, a company is required to demonstrate that it continues to meet this requirement by ensuring that the most recent training certificates for Accepting Dangerous Goods Consignments of employees are submitted to IATA. This ensures that the DGR certificates currently registered in your account remain valid. Members are advised to check or update valid DGR certificates by following the steps explained in the document Important Information on Dangerous Goods Regulation (scan the QR code, left, to view). This document also explains the importance of having a valid DGR certificate, how to obtain one, and finally, how to communicate with IATA easily. Failure to provide the Dangerous Goods Acceptance training certificates to IATA may result in the termination of the agreement with IATA and the company’s removal from the Cargo Agency List.
David Stroud, Policy Advisor – Air, highlights two issues of importance to Members handling air freight shipments Air cargo updates you may have missed
A viation Security Regulated Agents will have been contacted earlier in the year by the Department for Transport concerning Variation Direction & Guidance – Protection of Secure Cargo & Mail . The new provisions come into force on 1 June 2024, allowing a proportionate lead-time as agreed in consultation with the industry.
The communication will have been sent to the company’s aviation security manager and details new provisions that will form part of the Aviation Security Programme and must be reflected therein. If you have any questions on the measures prescribed in the Variation Direction, including in relation to interpretation that may not be answered through referral to
Dangerous Goods
IATA and Smart Freight Centre join forces on CO 2 calculations
cargo, supporting them with pre- shipment and reporting purposes. IATA CO 2 Connect for Cargo is planned to be available as of Q4 2024. SFC (www.smartfreightcentre.org/en) is a globally active non-profit organisation for climate action in the freight sector. Its goal is to mobilise the global logistics ecosystem, in particular its members and partners, in tracking and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The SFC Clean Air Transport programme comprises over 50 members, including airlines, freight forwarders, shippers and fuel providers. It engages in collaborative actions to support aviation’s decarbonisation efforts.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Smart Freight Centre (SFC) announced a partnership on 13March to provide consistent and transparent CO 2 emissions calculations for air cargo shipments. The two organisations will focus efforts on developing the cargo component of IATA’s CO 2 Connect platform, which successfully launched its passenger version in 2022. The platform uses primary industry data to power highly accurate carbon calculations. It considers airline specific fuel burn from both full freighter and passenger aircraft carrying belly cargo,
airline specific cargo load factors, and passenger load factors to determine the correct ratio to attribute to belly cargo. IATA (www.iata.org) represents some 320 airlines comprising 83% of global air traffic. The collaboration with the SFC Clean Air Transport Programme will promote a common methodology in CO 2 emission calculations and ensure accurate and consistent CO 2 calculations are distributed to the industry’s biggest shippers and freight forwarders in air
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