[NHCOLL-L:4211] IATA Excepted Quantity package data for ICAO meeting in May

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Hi all

 

It just came to may attention that I may have missed an important factor in the calculations that will be forthcoming from my request below.  There may be institutions whose international traffic in packages as been curtailed due to budgetary constraints or problematic shipping practices to certain countries. I have now included two extra questions in my table below and would ask that you please use this table when reporting.  I have also added a question about he carriers most frequently used (FedEx, UPS or USPS).  Apologies to those who have reported already and please feel free to just report on these three rows and I will collate your response.

 

It also came to may attention that I never gave a closing date for submissions.  Ideally I would need this data before the end of March in order to collate it all and formulate it into some sort of report for IATA.

 

Thanks again in advance and thanks to James Boone and Susan McLaren for pointing out my omissions.

 

Andy

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Andy Bentley
Ichthyology Collection Manager/Specify Usability Lead
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center
Dyche Hall
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561
USA

Tel: (785) 864-3863
Fax: (785) 864-5335
Email: ABentley at ku.edu       
                                                
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From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Bentley, Andrew Charles
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:54 AM
To: NHCOLL-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:4208] IATA Excepted Quantity package data for ICAO meeting in May

 

Hi all

 

As part of my ongoing effort to resolve issues concerning the shipping of dangerous goods, recent contact with IATA indicates their willingness to work with us to have specific verbiage inserted into the IATA regulations through discussion at the next ICAO meeting in May of this year.  Brendan Sullivan from IATA has requested that I provide them with a letter of motivation for inclusion of this text and that together with this I provide some statistical data to add weight to our request.  Obviously, the larger the traffic in these packages, the more of a case we have with ICAO for inclusion of text specifically addressing natural history specimen packages - specifically we would be looking for an exemption for natural history packages packaged in accordance with IATA 2.7 Excepted Quantity regulations.  We already have a letter of interpretation from DOT as justification of this cause.  This would not only allow us to send international packages by USPS but also allow us to gain access to those countries that courier services are at present unable to ship within.  

 

What I require from you is an average of:

1.	Your Institution and Division - which will be used only to categorize data.  No Institution names or private data will be used in the final report to IATA/ICAO.

2.	An estimation of the yearly average number of packages that you ship internationally that contain dangerous goods (wet specimens or tissues in alcohols) - please include data for loan returns.

3.	Types of specimens shipped - fish, herps, mammals, birds, insects etc.
4.	An estimation of the number of specimens shipped in a year.

5.	Types of shipments most frequently shipped - wet whole specimens wrapped in cheesecloth, wet whole specimens in free alcohol, tissues in 95% ethanol etc. 

6.	Which countries these packages are shipped to and from - please include data for returning packages and packages sent on loan from external institutions.

Below is a form that you can use to report this data.  Simply reply to this message with the table filled in or cut and paste it into a new message.

Institution and Division name

 

Yearly average number of packages

 

Types of specimens shipped (please list all)

 

Yearly average number of specimens contained in these shipments

 

Types of shipments most frequently shipped (please list all)

 

Which carriers do you use - UPS, FedEx, USPS?

 

Countries to which, and from which, these packages originate

 

Have your shipping practices been hindered by budgetary restrictions?  If so, what yearly number of packages would be possible without this restriction?

 

Have your shipping to various countries been hindered by shipping regulations?  If so, which countries and why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can always extrapolate and average these figures to gain a sense of total packages per year but real data would carry much more weight.  Your help in this endeavor would be greatly appreciated and would benefit the entire community.  Please forward this message to others who you think may not be on this list or who ship specimens in this manner as the more data we can gather, the more of a case we can represent to ICAO.

 

Thanking you in advance

 

Andy

 

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Andy Bentley
Ichthyology Collection Manager/Specify Usability Lead
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center
Dyche Hall
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561
USA

Tel: (785) 864-3863
Fax: (785) 864-5335
Email: ABentley at ku.edu       
                                                
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