Special Provisions For Air Freight Of Certain Goods

1. Powdered Goods: For goods packaged in bags, the outermost layer should be a plastic-coated woven bag to prevent leakage. The gross weight of a single shipment should not exceed 50 kg. For goods packaged in cardboard, wooden, or plywood drums, the drum body must be unbroken, seams tight, lids sealed, and hoops sturdy. For goods packaged in glass, the weight of the contents of each bottle should not exceed 1 kg. For goods packaged in iron or wooden materials, the inside of the box should be filled with padding material. The gross weight of a single shipment should preferably not exceed 25 kg.

2. Liquid Goods: Containers must have 5-10% internal space, and lids must be sealed tightly to prevent leakage. For liquids packaged in glass containers, the capacity of each container should not exceed 500 ml. The gross weight of a single shipment should preferably not exceed 25 kg. The inside of the box should be filled with padding and absorbent material to prevent shaking or leakage.

3. Goods not susceptible to impact or pressure: These do not require packaging, such as tires. Goods that are difficult to count, irregularly shaped, resemble transport equipment, or are easily damaged by the aircraft should be wrapped with rope or burlap, or additionally packaged.

4. Precision, fragile, and easily broken goods: The gross weight of a single item should preferably not exceed 25 kg. The following packaging methods can be used:
① Suspension packaging: Using several springs or ropes, suspend the goods in the middle of the box from all directions inside.

② Multi-layer packaging: Goods-cushioning material-inner packaging-cushioning material-transport packaging (outer packaging).

③ Glassware packaging: Use sufficiently thick foam plastic and other cushioning materials to tightly wrap the glassware, and then place it in a sturdy corrugated cardboard box or wooden crate. The contents of the box must not move.

④ Anti-tipping packaging: Packaging with a large base, handles, or a ridge-type lid; glass plates and windshields that cannot be laid flat must use this type of packaging.

5. Large cargo: Cargo with large volume or weight should have sleepers or bases at the bottom to facilitate forklift operation.