Lithium Battery State of Charge: What Medical Equipment Shippers Must Know A battery at 5% charge and a battery at 80% charge are not the same cargo. New work at the UN is about to make that difference part of the rules. Many medical devices run on lithium batteries. Portable ECG machines, patient monitors, ultrasound […]
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What is thermal runaway? The term sounds technical. The idea is simple. A lithium-ion battery is made of cells. Each cell stores energy. Under normal use, it stays safe. Now a cell gets damaged or has a defect. It makes more heat than it can lose. The heat speeds up the chemical reaction inside. That […]
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The Bill of Lading Explained: The Document That Decides Who Gets Your Cargo What a Bill of Lading is, what it does, and how to avoid the delays and costs that come from getting it wrong. Your goods are on the water, but the shipment isn’t done until the right person holds the right document. […]
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Class 4 dangerous goods cover flammable solids, self-heating substances, and materials that react dangerously with water. They move regularly through chemical manufacturing, metal processing, agriculture, and industrial supply chains โ and by air, they carry some of the tightest restrictions in the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR). Unlike ocean freight, air transport of Class 4 […]
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Most importers in Pakistan get their landed cost estimate wrong โ not because they don’t know the tax rates, but because they add them in the wrong order. Here’s how Pakistan Customs actually calculates it, stage by stage: ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฒ CIF value converted to PKR at the official SBP exchange rate on the day […]
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The pattern repeats across the industry: a shipment moves the same lane for years with no issues โ until one day a carrier rejects it at the dock. No DG labels. No documentation. The product didn’t change. The scrutiny did. Where classification actually starts Every Safety Data Sheet has a Section 14 โ Transport Information. […]
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Inside Glavik’s Handling of a 673kg NDT X-Ray Film Shipment Not every dangerous cargo is dangerous because it explodes, leaks, or radiates. Some cargo is dangerous simply because it sees light โ and airport X-ray scanners, the very machines built to keep air cargo safe, are exactly what can ruin it. That’s the story behind […]
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Imagine investing $1.5 million in a state-of-the-art MRI machine or a critical batch of temperature-sensitive oncology medications. Your hospital staff is trained, your patients are scheduled, and the manufacturer in Germany or Japan has shipped everything perfectly. Then, the shipment hits Karachi Port (KPT / Port Qasim) or the air cargo terminal at Lahore or […]
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How We Cleared a Radioactive Cargo Shipment Through Karachi: A Freight Forwarder’s Guide to Class 7 Dangerous Goods Most freight forwarders never touch Class 7 cargo. It’s one of the least understood, most heavily regulated categories in international shipping โ and one of the easiest to get catastrophically wrong. At Glavik, we recently managed the […]
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Most medical equipmentย importย problems happen before the shipment even leaves theย originย country.ย ย Wrong classification. Missingย DRAPย license. No PSW access. Wrong HS code. These are not customs problems โ they are preparation problems.ย ย This guide covers every step, every authority, everyย document. In plain language.ย Soย you know exactly whatย youโreย walking into.ย Who Controls Medical Equipment Imports in Pakistan?ย Not one authority. Four.ย ย DRAPย โ […]
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