Federal government bans shipments of lithium metal batteries on passenger flights

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:49

The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, today announced a suite of amendments to Canada’s Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDGR). The updates include a ban on transporting lithium metal batteries as cargo on passenger flights in Canada, as well as new labelling and Emergency Response Assistance Plan (ERAP) requirements for certain dangerous goods. ...

The prohibition comes into effect on January 1, 2015, to comply with the ICAO ban. It applies to all shipments of lithium metal batteries as cargo on passenger planes within Canada. It does not apply to batteries already contained in or packed with equipment, but only to those packaged and shipped separately. The ban will not affect travellers’ personal devices such as laptops and smartphones, which use lithium ion batteries. ...

This has been excerpted from a 30 December 2014 news release by Transport Canada and is available in its entirety at:
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do;jsessionid=a1893cd85ff4d160dcc025dad8ccbda5efaa267c47a17fa9f284e15d415e26b2.e34Rc3iMbx8Oai0Tbx0SaxqRbxb0?mthd=index&crtr.page=1&nid=917139