Dangerous Goods

Dangerous goods refer to materials or items with hazardous properties that can pose risks to human health, safety, infrastructure, or the transport process if not managed correctly.

WorldFleet warehouses in Guangzhou and Fuzhou is not licensed to handle any dangerous goods. Such items will be rejected, returned, or disposed of accordingly.

​Explosives
Explosives are materials or items which have the ability to rapidly conflagrate or detonate as a consequence of chemical reaction.
Commonly Transported Explosives

• Ammunition/cartridges
• Fireworks/pyrotechnics
• Flares
• Blasting caps / detonators
• Fuse
• Primers
• Explosive charges (blasting, demolition etc)
• Detonating cord
• Air bag inflators
• Igniters
• Rockets
• TNT / TNT compositions
• RDX / RDX compositions
• PETN / PETN compositions

Gases
Gases are defined as substances with a vapour pressure of 300 kPa or more at 50°C or that are entirely gaseous at 20°C under standard atmospheric pressure, including items containing such substances. This category includes compressed gases, liquefied gases, dissolved gases, refrigerated liquefied gases, mixtures of gases with vapours from other substance classes, gas-charged articles, and aerosols.
Commonly Transported Explosives

• Aerosols
• Compressed air
• Hydrocarbon gas-powered devices
• Fire extinguishers
• Gas cartridges
• Fertilizer ammoniating solution
• Insecticide gases
• Refrigerant gases
• Lighters
• Acetylene / Oxyacetylene
• Carbon dioxide
• Helium / helium compounds
• Hydrogen / hydrogen compounds
• Oxygen / oxygen compounds
• Nitrogen / nitrogen compounds
• Natural gas
• Oil gas
• Petroleum gases
• Butane
• Propane
• Ethane
• Methane
• Dimethyl ether
• Propene / propylene
• Ethylene

Flammable Liquids
Flammable liquids are substances that include liquids, liquid mixtures, or liquids containing solids in solution or suspension that emit flammable vapours (flash point) at temperatures of 60-65°C or lower. This category also covers liquids transported at or above their flash point and substances in a heated liquid state that release flammable vapours at or below the maximum transport temperature.
Commonly Transported Flammable Liquids

• Acetone / acetone oils
• Adhesives
• Paints / lacquers / varnishes
• Alcohols
• Perfumery products
• Gasoline / Petrol
• Diesel fuel
• Aviation fuel
• Liquid bio-fuels
• Coal tar / coal tar distillates
• Petroleum crude oil
• Petroleum distillates
• Gas oil
• Shale oil
• Heating oil
• Kerosene
• Resins
• Tars
• Turpentine
• Carbamate insecticides
• Organochlorine pesticides
• Organophosphorus pesticides
• Copper based pesticides
• Esters
• Ethers
• Ethanol
• Benzene
• Butanols
• Dichloropropenes
• Diethyl ether
• Isobutanols
• Isopropyls
• Methanol
• Octanes

Flammable Solids
Flammable solids are materials that can easily ignite or contribute to fires during transport, including self-reactive substances, desensitized explosives, and those prone to spontaneous heating or combustion. This category also includes materials that release flammable gases or become flammable when in contact with water.
Commonly Transported Flammable Solids; Spontaneous Combustibles; "Dangerous When Wet" Materials

• Alkali metals
• Metal powders
• Aluminium phosphide
• Sodium batteries
• Sodium cells
• Firelighters
• Matches
• Calcium carbide
• Camphor
• Carbon
• Activated carbon
• Celluloid
• Cerium
• Copra
• Seed cake
• Oily cotton waste
• Desensitised explosives
• Oily fabrics
• Oily fibres
• Ferrocerium
• Iron oxide (spent)
• Iron sponge/direct-reduced iron (spent)
• Metaldehyde
• Naphthalene
• Nitrocellulose
• Phosphorus
• Sulphur

Oxidizing Substances
Oxidizers are substances that can promote or enhance combustion, typically by releasing oxygen through a redox chemical reaction. Organic peroxides are compounds derived from hydrogen peroxide, where one or both hydrogen atoms in the molecular structure are replaced by organic groups.
Commonly Transported Oxidizers; Organic Peroxides

• Chemical oxygen generators
• Ammonium nitrate fertilizers
• Chlorates
• Nitrates
• Nitrites
• Perchlorates
• Permanganates
• Persulphates
• Aluminium nitrate
• Ammonium dichromate
• Ammonium nitrate
• Ammonium persulphate
• Calcium hypochlorite
• Calcium nitrate
• Calcium peroxide
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Magnesium peroxide
• Lead nitrate
• Lithium hypochlorite
• Potassium chlorate
• Potassium nitrate
• Potassium perchlorate
• Potassium permanganate
• Sodium nitrate
• Sodium persulphate

Toxic & Infectious Substances
Toxic substances are materials that can cause death, severe injury, or harm to human health if ingested, inhaled, or absorbed through the skin. Infectious substances are those that are known or reasonably expected to contain pathogens. Pathogens are defined as microorganisms—such as bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, parasites, and fungi—or other agents capable of causing diseases in humans or animals.
Commonly Transported Toxic Substances; Infectious Substances

• Medical/Biomedical waste
• Clinical waste
• Biological cultures / samples / specimens
• Medical cultures / samples / specimens
• Tear gas substances
• Motor fuel anti-knock mixture
• Dyes
• Carbamate pesticides
• Alkaloids
• Allyls
• Acids
• Arsenates
• Arsenites
• Cyanides
• Thiols/mercaptans
• Cresols
• Barium compounds
• Arsenics / arsenic compounds
• Beryllium/ beryllium compounds
• Lead compounds
• Mercury compounds
• Nicotine / nicotine compounds
• Selenium compounds
• Antimony
• Ammonium metavanadate
• Adiponitrile
• Chloroform
• Dichloromethane
• Hexachlorophene
• Phenol
• Resorcinol

Radioactive Material
According to dangerous goods regulations, radioactive material refers to any substance that contains radionuclides with both activity concentration and total activity exceeding specified limits. A radionuclide is an atom with an unstable nucleus that undergoes radioactive decay.
Commonly Transported Radioactive Material

• Radioactive ores
• Medical isotopes
• Yellowcake
• Density gauges
• Mixed fission products
• Surface contaminated objects
• Caesium radionuclides / isotopes
• Iridium radionuclides / isotopes
• Americium radionuclides / isotopes
• Plutonium radionuclides / isotopes
• Radium radionuclides / isotopes
• Thorium radionuclides / isotopes
• Uranium radionuclides / isotopes
• Depleted uranium / depleted uranium products
• Uranium hexafluoride
• Enriched Uranium

Corrosives
Corrosives are materials that cause damage or deterioration to other substances through chemical reactions when they come into contact.
Commonly Transported Corrosives

• Acids/acid solutions
• Battery fluid
• Fuel cell cartridges
• Dyes
• Fire extinguisher charges
• Formaldehyde
• Flux
• Paints
• Alkylphenols
• Amines
• Polyamines
• Sulphides
• Polysulphides
• Chlorides
• Chlorosilanes
• Bromine
• Cyclohexylamine
• Phenol / carbolic acid
• Hydrofluoric acid
• Hydrochloric acid
• Sulfuric acid
• Nitric acid
• Sludge acid
• Hydrogen fluoride
• Iodine
• Morpholine

Miscellaneous Dangerous Goods
Miscellaneous dangerous goods are items that present transportation risks not covered by other categories, including environmentally hazardous materials, substances transported at high temperatures, genetically modified organisms, microorganisms, and, depending on the transport method, magnetized materials and aviation-regulated substances.
Commonly Transported Miscellaneous Dangerous Goods

• Dry ice / cardice / solid carbon dioxide
• Expandable polymeric beads / polystyrene beads
• Ammonium nitrate fertilizers
• Blue asbestos / crocidolite
• Dangerous goods in apparatus
• Dangerous goods in machinery
• Genetically modified organisms
• Genetically modified micro-organisms
• Chemical kits
• Life saving appliances
• Air bag modules
• Seatbelt pretensioners
• Plastics moulding compound
• Castor bean plant products
• Polychlorinated biphenyls
• Polychlorinated terphenyls
• Dibromodifluoromethane
• Benzaldehyde
• Power bank
• Rechargable battery