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Dangerous Goods Regulations

     You may not think that this is something to read as the holiday lights twinkle and the wind howls during long nights near a crackling fire, but you may be wrong.
     In the long history of aviation, few books have gone to 44 printings like IATA’s Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) available now from www.iataonline.com for $105USD.
     This latest edition is chock full of how to get it right when shipping all manner of goods.
     There are chapters on just about anything that might be of question and lots of handy tips on marking handling packaging, labeling, documentation and even training in IATA’s DGR.
     Plus, and maybe this is the best plus of all, the 44th IATA DGR is big, bright colorful and easy to read, understand and use.
     What’s more, there are contact numbers for questions and even a great big conference to be held this coming March 18 thru 20 in Miami.
     Dangerous Goods By Air will cover just that with lots of everything you need to know, like what does air eligibility really mean, and the danger of unknown shippers (as if not getting paid by the known ones is not scary enough).
     Dangerous Goods by Air will focus on security too. Pencil in this one which by the way is taking place in MIA, down where the warm winds play, while most of the rest of the country is still frozen solid. Contact: mcewenc@iata.org.
     IATA also puts up a monthly Security Focus publication that you can subscribe to. Also as if seeing everything at 40% to 80% off in the stores right now as the holiday approaches isn’t enough, IATA, to hot up its online store sales is giving away an IATA clock that you get for buying anything from their website store by December 20th.
     So get busy already and tell them Air Cargo News sent you.