Documentation Requirements
The responsibility of the consignor is to describe the Dangerous Goods on a transport document.
- It is the responsibility of the consignor offering Dangerous Goods for transport to describe the Dangerous Goods on a transport document and provide additional information and documentation.
- A Dangerous Goods transport document may be in any form, provided it contains all of the information required by the provisions of the IMDG Code.
- If both Dangerous and non Dangerous Goods are listed in one document, the Dangerous Goods shall be listed first, or otherwise be emphasized.
- A Dangerous Goods transport document may consist of more than one page, provided pages are consecutively numbered.
- The information on a Dangerous Goods transport document shall be easy to identify, legible and durable.
- The consignor and the carrier have to retain a copy of these information & documentation for at least 3 months.
