Other required certificates and documents for IMDG shipments
- Occasionally, special certificates or other documents must accompany shipments of dangerous goods, in addition to the transport document.
In certain circumstances, special certificates or other documents are required when offering dangerous goods for transport.
A weathering certificate is required in some individual entries of the Dangerous Goods List.
A certificate exempting a substance, material, or article from the provisions of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code must accompany the consignment. For examples, see the individual entries for charcoal, fish meal, and seed cake.
New self-reactive substances and organic peroxides, or new formulation of currently assigned self-reactive substances and organic peroxides, must include a statement of the approved classification and conditions of transport.
Multimodal dangerous goods form
The Multimodal Dangerous Goods Form found in the IMDG Code Section 5.4.5 meets the requirements of SOLAS, chapter VII, regulation 4; MARPOL, Annex III, regulation 4; and the IMDG Code provisions for documentation.
The information required by the documentation provisions of the Code is mandatory, however, the layout of the form is not mandatory.
This form may be used as a combined dangerous goods transport document and container/vehicle packing certificate for multimodal carriage of dangerous goods.