DG20u—Dangerous Goods, Function Specific: Customs Brokerage

Subscriber price: $55.00, Non-subscriber price: $72.00
Estimated total study time: 4 hours 15 minutes

This module provides the "function specific" portion of DG/Hazmat Employee certification training for personnel working in customs brokerage, including import traffic and shipment reforwarding.

Important: Employee certification training is not complete without additional modules addressing "general awareness", "general safety", "security awareness" and, when required, an employer's "hazmat security plan".

Customs Clearance Agent Dangerous Goods Responsibilities; Recognizing a DG Shipment

(Estimated study time: 58 minutes)

• Customs Clearance Agent Arranging DG Delivery or On-Carriage
• Customs Clearance Agent Not Arranging Delivery or On-Carriage
• Who Really Knows What Is in the Shipping Packages or in a Sealed Though Container?
• How Will You, as a Customs Clearance Agent, Identify a Shipment Containing DG?
• For Documented Dangerous Goods Shipments
• For Undocumented Dangerous Goods Shipments!

Indicators of Undeclared DG; Customs Inspection Concerns with DG

(Estimated study time: 57 minutes)

• Indicators of Undocumented and/or Non-Compliant DG Shipments at Time of Customs Clearance
• Customs Inspection, Delivery or Reforwarding of Dangerous Goods
  • Customs Inspection of Dangerous Goods
  • Delivery of DG Cargo Following Customs Release
  • Cargo Transferred Under Customs Bond

Shipper's Declaration Information

(Estimated study time: 36 minutes)

• Shipper's Declaration Information
  • General; Shipment-Level Information
  • UN Number Line-item Information
    • First Sequence
    • Second Sequence—Net Quantity of Dangerous Goods; Numbers and Types of Packages
    • Third Sequence—Packing Instructions (for air shipments)
    • Fourth Sequence—Authorizations and Carrier Handling Instructions
    • Shipper's Certification

Arranging Delivery or On-Carriage of DG

(Estimated study time: 44 minutes)

• General DG Shipping Requirements Apply Regardless of Transportation Mode
• Using the Initial Shipper's Declaration
• Do Not Prepare a New Shipper's Declaration
• DG Warning Statement and Other Information Required on the Delivery or other On-Carriage Transportation Document
• Procedures for Delivery/On-Carriage of DG by Truck
  • Selecting and Communicating with the Trucking Company
  • Preparing the Truck Transportation Document (Waybill, etc.)

Procedures for Delivery/On-Carriage of DG by Air; Through Air-Sea Through Movement

(Estimated study time: 1 hour 0 minutes)

• Arranging DG On-Carriage by Air
  • General—Air Shipment of DG More Restrictive than Surface Modes
  • Determining Air Shipment Requirements
  • Documentation When Changing DG Transport Mode To Air
    • Shipper's Declaration
    • Air Waybill
• Arranging On-carriage by Vessel; Planned Through "Sea-Air" Transportation
• Added Concerns When the Originally-Intended Through Transportation Is Changed or Interrupted
  • Re-forwarding by Air a DG Shipment Which Arrived by Surface Transportation
    • Can the Particular DG Package(s) Be Shipped by Air?
    • Will a New Shipper's Declaration Be Required?
    • Who Must or May Prepare the New Shipper's Declaration?
  • Split Delivery or Cross-Docking of a Single DG Shipment
  • Shipment of DG Held in Storage Unopened in Initial Shipper/Supplier Packaging