Air Freight Learning Hub
Documentation, dangerous goods regulations, and how air freight actually works on this corridor — in plain language, sourced and cited.
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Air Freight Fundamentals
What is an Air Waybill?
An Air Waybill (AWB) is the contract of carriage between a shipper and an airline for air freight — not a document of title. Learn what it contains, MAWB vs HAWB, and how AWB numbering works.
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Air Freight Fundamentals
Master AWB vs House AWB
Master AWB vs House AWB: who issues each, who's liable if something goes wrong, and what happens when a consolidated shipment's HAWB cargo gets separated from its MAWB in transit.
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Air Freight Fundamentals
Air Freight Documentation Checklist
The complete document checklist for an air freight shipment: commercial invoice, packing list, AWB, Certificate of Origin, DEL reference for pharma, and DGR declarations where relevant.
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Dangerous Goods & Compliance
Dangerous Goods in Air Freight: A Shipper's Overview
What IATA's Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) actually require, the 9 hazard classes, who's legally required to complete Shipper's Declaration training, and when a commodity needs DG handling.
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Dangerous Goods & Compliance
Dry Ice Shipping Rules for Air Freight
Dry ice as air cargo: UN 1845, Class 9, PI 954. The 200kg per package limit, vented packaging requirement, prior carrier arrangement, and the one exemption most guidance leaves out.
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Dangerous Goods & Compliance
Lithium Battery Air Shipping Rules
UN 3480/3481 (lithium ion) vs UN 3090/3091 (lithium metal) air freight rules: which Packing Instruction applies for batteries alone, packed with equipment, or installed in it.
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Dangerous Goods & Compliance
The Shipper's Declaration for Dangerous Goods: How It Works
What the Shipper's Declaration for Dangerous Goods actually requires, who's authorized to sign it, and what happens when a shipment is declared incorrectly.
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Air Freight Fundamentals
CASS Settlement Explained
What IATA's Cargo Accounts Settlement System (CASS) actually is, how it settles charges between agents, carriers, and IATA, and how UAL's own single Halifax accreditation runs through it.
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Air Freight Fundamentals
Incoterms for Air Freight: Which Ones Actually Apply
FCA, CPT, and CIP govern air freight under Incoterms 2020 — FOB and CIF are sea-freight-only terms. A real comparison of which Incoterms apply to air cargo and which don't.
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Air Freight Fundamentals
Air Freight vs. Sea Freight: When Each One Actually Makes Sense
Air freight vs. ocean freight, honestly: transit time, cost, and the specific use cases where air freight's premium is actually worth paying — and where it isn't.
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Air Freight Fundamentals
Freight Consolidation & Groupage Explained
How freight consolidation (groupage) works: multiple shippers' cargo under one Master AWB, and why that's the backbone of UAL's neutral-agent model on the Canada–South Asia–ASEAN corridor.
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