With the booming development of cross-border e-commerce, dangerous goods such as lithium batteries, battery-equipped devices and cosmetics have entered global logistics channels in large quantities in the form of small batches and multiple shipments. This trend has posed new challenges to the traditional dangerous goods packaging certificate application system designed for full-container cargo, and has spurred the rapid rise of "micro-compliance" services.
Take the air transport of lithium batteries as an example. The new 67th edition of the IATA DGR stipulates a mandatory requirement that the state of charge (SoC) of lithium batteries packed with equipment shall not exceed 30%. Such batteries must also use UN-standard packaging and obtain a dangerous goods packaging certificate. For cross-border e-commerce sellers, applying batch by batch under the traditional model is unaffordable in terms of both time and economic costs.
To address this pain point, the industry is actively exploring a model of pre-categorized packaging plus simplified declaration. Standardized compliant packaging solutions have been developed for common types of small dangerous goods, with performance appraisal completed in advance. Enterprises only need to select and file records according to actual shipment situations.
Meanwhile, a number of third-party compliance service providers focusing on cross-border e-commerce have emerged, offering sellers one-stop "micro-compliance" services ranging from battery testing and packaging selection to dangerous goods packaging certificate application. In the future, dangerous goods packaging certificates applicable to cross-border e-commerce will be more integrated with electronic waybill systems to achieve one code per item for accurate traceability.
