Shipping Lithium Batteries – Updated for 2022

Lithium batteries can be complicated to ship by air. Most people use the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations but the lithium battery packing instructions in the IATA book are not like most of the other packing instructions.

To make it easier to ship lithium batteries by air, we’ve prepared a video that goes over the special packaging, marks, labels, and documentation commonly required when shipping lithium batteries by air.

There are changes for 2022 – including the elimination of section II options for shipping batteries under packing instruction (PI) 965! Only section IA and section IB remain in PI 965. But there are still section II instructions in other packing instructions (like PI 966 and PI 967 for batteries packed with and in equipment). So the whole process is just that much more complicated.

As always, I will warn you that the video is only a supplement to our hazmat training. There are required training elements that are covered in the class and are not addressed in the video. But our next class will be held April 19-20, 2022 and you can find out more here. [if you don’t see this until after April 19 then feel free to sign up for our next class]

You can watch the video on youtube or just watch here on our site: