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