The International Civil Aviation Corporation (ICAO) has amended their dangerous goods requirements and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has published these amendments in the 58^th Edition of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations.

Below is the link to IATA’s announcement and list of significant changes and amendments to the 58^th Edition:

https://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dgr/Documents/dgr-58-significant-changes.pdf

Please make sure you take the time to review the new dangerous goods requirements that becomes effective on January 1, 2017.   You may also want to take the time to ensure that any of your staff members who are involved in handling dangerous goods is properly trained and that their current training records are properly recorded.   If your company needs help in dangerous goods training please contact MTC for help at matilda@merittradeservices.com.