Dangerous Goods Declaration Generator

The UN number (UN 1263) is the globally unique ID for the substance or article category; the proper shipping name (PAINT) is the standardised description the code attaches to it. Both must appear, exactly as listed — together with class and packing group they form the identification quartet that drives stowage, segregation and emergency response. Trade names ('Brand X Thinner') may follow in brackets but never substitute.

A trained person acting for the shipper — IMDG chapter 1.3 and IATA's training provisions make DG training mandatory for declaration preparers, and air mode requires formal certification with revalidation (typically 24 months). The signature certifies compliance 'in all respects', which is why carriers reject declarations signed by forwarders without shipper authority or by untrained staff: liability follows that line.

The severe end of trade penalties: fines per package (air regimes run to tens of thousands), cargo offloaded at the shipper's cost, carrier blacklisting — and in incidents, criminal exposure, because undeclared DG is implicated in serious vessel fires. Carriers actively screen bookings (X-ray, document analytics, density checks) for exactly this. If in doubt whether something is regulated, test and classify; 'it's just paint' is the famous last sentence.

Mode-dependent: limited-quantity (LQ) provisions relax packaging, marking and documentation — sea and road LQ shipments often need no full DGD (transport document notation suffices), while air has its own Y-prefixed LQ rules still requiring a shipper's declaration. The relaxations only apply when the LQ conditions (inner/outer quantity caps, marking) are fully met — partial compliance means full regulation applies.