IATA Reminder

Significant Changes and Amendments For 2025

With Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years just around the corner, it’s easy to get caught up in the holiday season and forget about upcoming changes to the regulations. That’s why we wanted to remind people of some of the significant changes that are happening in 2025, specifically, as they relate Lithium-Ion Batteries (LB) within the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR).

If you follow us on any of our social media outlets at Facebook, X (Twitter), or LinkedIn, you will recall we informed you of many of these changes in early September. To look at the previous blog on the significant changes, you can click HERE!

However, if you are more interested in the lithium battery specific changes, see below:

• New proper shipping names have been added to the 4.2 List of Dangerous Goods
• A185 and A214—to incorporate reference and requirements for the new entries of vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries, lithium metal batteries and sodium ion batteries; and,
• A231—excludes vehicles powered by sodium ion batteries from the provisions of the dangerous goods regulations, providing there are no other dangerous goods which are subject to the regulations, and the battery is short circuited to reduce the charge in the battery to zero
• Packing Instruction recommendations related to reduced state of charge (SoC) to a maximum of 30%.
  • Examples of affected UN numbers include but not limited to: UN 3171, UN 3481, and UN 3556
• Lithium Battery Mark will be used for Sodium-ion batteries
• Lithium Battery Mark will now be referred to as the “battery mark”
• The lithium battery label has been renamed as the lithium battery or sodium ion battery label.
• Vehicles powered by lithium batteries can be shipped under either UN3171 or UN3556 until March 31, 2025, with an effective date of January 1, 2025, for UN3556.

Please keep in mind, the listed changes above are specifically in reference to lithium batteries and will be recommendations beginning January 1, 2025 with a mandatory date of January 1, 2026. So, make sure to keep in touch with us as we update these changes throughout the coming year. Again, this is not a comprehensive list of all the changes made, so for a full look at the significant changes and amendments in the 66th edition (2025), you can click HERE!

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