Dangerous goods is one of the most heavily regulated areas of air freight, and for good reason. The wrong packaging, a missing label, or an incorrectly completed declaration can ground a flight, trigger a regulatory investigation, or in the worst case, endanger an aircraft and everyone on it. This is not an area where you cut corners, and it’s not an area where you want a handler who isn’t properly trained.
Our team holds current IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations certification. That means we know how to classify your goods correctly, how to verify that packaging meets the required specifications for air transport, how to check that labels and markings are applied properly, and how to complete the Shipper’s Declaration for Dangerous Goods accurately. We also know what can and cannot travel on passenger aircraft versus freighter aircraft, a distinction that matters more than most shippers realise.
Dangerous goods cover a much wider range of products than most people expect. Yes, it includes obvious things like flammable liquids, explosives, and toxic substances. But it also includes things that shippers regularly don’t think of as dangerous, lithium batteries, aerosols, magnetised materials, dry ice, certain medical devices, and pressurised cylinders. If you’re not sure whether your product falls under DGR, come and talk to us before you try to ship it. We’d rather sort it out upfront than have your consignment rejected at acceptance, or worse, discovered on the aircraft.
When we receive a dangerous goods consignment, we check everything. The UN number, the proper shipping name, the packing group, the quantity limits, the packaging specification, the labelling, and the documentation. If anything isn’t right, we’ll tell you exactly what needs to be fixed before we can accept it. We won’t process a DG shipment that isn’t fully compliant, not because we’re being difficult, but because we’re not willing to put an aircraft at risk.
Lufthansa Cargo has strict dangerous goods acceptance standards, and as their certified ground handling agent at Entebbe, we are responsible for making sure every DG shipment we handle meets those standards without exception. That’s a responsibility we take seriously.