Lithium Battery Shipping | National Air Cargo

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ARE BATTERIES & SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES RIGHT FOR YOU?

The shipments where mishandling is not an option

Battery and technology cargo lives where high value meets high regulation meets zero tolerance for a wrong move. The people who feel that most are the ones answerable when it goes wrong.

The classification has to be right the first time: One wrong UN number or packing instruction grounds the shipment, or worse. You need a partner fluent in Class 9 before your product leaves the dock.
The deadline can’t budge: A held shipment idles a production line, delays a launch, or strands a fab install. Your cargo has to clear the rules and still move now.
Seven figures can ride on a single pallet: Shock, static, or one security gap writes it off. Chain of custody has to be something you can account for start to finish.
Regulated in more ways than one: A server rack or a batch of semiconductors can face dangerous goods rules, export controls, and customs handling all at once. You need a team that manages it all together.

How it works

What happens between dock and destination

A battery or technology shipment moves through the same disciplined sequence every time, whoever it belongs to and wherever it’s headed. Each step protects the one after it, from the first document check to final delivery.

We audit before anything moves

A held shipment usually never stood a chance at the dock. Before your cargo moves, our dangerous goods specialists audit every declaration and document for accuracy, so anything that could trip up Class 9 gets caught while it’s still easy to fix.

Packaging built to survive the trip

State of charge, shock, static, and temperature. We package to spec. Arrives non-compliant at origin? We repack, relabel, and recertify, on-site when that’s what it takes to get it moving again.

The fastest compliant route

Air when speed decides it. Ocean, road, or rail when cost and scale do. We plan the route around the rules your cargo has to clear, drawing on a global group’s fleet and a partner network everywhere else.

One team the whole way

Your shipment stays with the same specialists from first quote to final delivery, and they know it by name. Reach out and you get the person actually handling your cargo, the same expert every time.

Visibility to the door

You track your shipment the whole way, from pickup to signature, through our own tracking portal. And if anything shifts en route you’ll know about it the moment that it happens, with a solution already sorted.

OUR BATTERIES & SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGIES SERVICES

Every category of sensitive freight, covered

Lithium batteries and high-energy cargo

State-of-charge protocols, secure handling, and Class 9 compliance for the battery systems most freighters won’t board. Packs, EV modules, and grid storage, moved by specialists who do it daily.

Semiconductors and AI hardware

Cargo measured in microns and millions. Precision handling, shock and static protection, and secure logistics for fab equipment, GPU accelerators, and everything between the cleanroom and the data center.

Regulated electronics and components

Devices, assemblies, and the embedded batteries inside them. Full DG compliance and documentation for the technology that has to clear every border it crosses.

Packaging, repack, and compliance correction

Non-compliant shipment at origin? We repack, relabel, and recertify to spec, on-site where it’s needed, so a held shipment moves again fast.

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CERTIFICATIONs & COMPLIANCE

The credentials that decide what can actually fly

National Air Cargo handles Class 9 and all dangerous goods classes under FAA oversight, aligned to IATA, IMDG, and DOT standards. For lithium cargo, that clearance is the difference between moving and sitting.

Our Certifications & Compliance

Our global network

Local experts everywhere your tech lands

Across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, the people clearing your lithium through customs are experts on the ground in that market.

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Our industry affliations

Standards beyond what’s required

National Air Cargo holds memberships in Cargo Network Services (CNS) and the Air Forwarders Association (AFA), plus C-TPAT certification for secure supply chain handling.