And good afternoon everybody. Welcome to our webinar about solutions for shipping lichem batteries. Before we really start, I would like to make you familiar with the, the, the icons that you see at the bottom of of your screen. So on on the left side you see a link here. Click there and you will be. You will get in contact with one of our specialists. You can discuss a quote, discuss the needs you have, so please make use of that one For more information. You will see AQ and a link. You can raise any question during the the session at any time and we will have AQ and a session. At the end of the the the webinar you can see the the the biographies of the speakers today in the centre you will see the slideshow and on the right top corner you see who is who is participating there. Then there is an option to download related content. There is information available about shipping and dangerous goods Leech and batteries and and restrictions on that as well and then along with at least you can share your feedback through emojis during during the event. Also what I would like to ask you when you leave at the end, before you end, there is a two question survey please fill that in. That will help us developing further and better going forward. So thank you everybody again. Welcome again and thanks for joining this session. My name is John Williams. I'm marketing Principal for automotive at FedEx and I've got more than 30 years of experience in transport and logistics industry across sales management and strategy. I will be your master of ceremony today and we'll talk you through EV trends and FedEx solutions. On the agenda you can see we will discuss express battery shipments, we will talk about highlighting the challenges there are. We will talk about solutions that FedEx brings. There is an important topic related to health and safety and and and compliance when shipping batteries. And of course you have a chance to ask questions. I said already use the link at the bottom of your screen for that. Today I'm joined by Short from Popple and would like to hand over now to Short. Thank you, John. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm sure I'm the dangerous Goods Safety Advisor for FedEx International. I have more than 20 years of experience in handling and managing dangerous goods by air, road and sea. And I'm very happy to share insights and knowledge to help you navigate the complexities of shipping hazardous material with, of course, full compliance and focus on safety. We also have Oliver Kerlow. Oliver, over to you. Hi, I'm Oliver. I work in customer solutions at FedEx. My job is basically to plan, build and implement logistics solutions based on all of the customers requirements and abilities. My background is in the tender procurement acquisition space. I worked there for about 10 years now. It looks like we lost Oliver at the moment. So all of her will be able to answer all questions you will have during the session. So now we're going to take you through what you need to know about shipping leaching batteries for automotive in the segments R&D, manufacturing and aftermarket. But there is more. Before we start, remember that automotive isn't the only sector using and shipping leaching batteries. As you can see here, all these sectors will need to ship batteries under the same conditions but for different applications. We also see similar supply chain requirements like distribution to reload retailer networks and returns. We can leverage our multi industry experience to help those operating across all relevant sectors including automotive. The most important thing to note here, we have new logistics demands in an evolving market. As I said, the most important thing here to notice is the growth of the Legion batteries sales in automotive. It has been tremendous. Last year 13.6 million electrical vehicles were sold, which represents a year on year growth of 31% and globally EVs represent already 14% of total car sales. But when looking even further into the future, by 2035 when when it is expected and and probably hope for that most countries sell electrical vehicles, we have 70% of the vehicles globally sold being electric. That means that every year about 50 to 60 million batteries are added to the market and that's only in the automotive sector. It is also worth noting that the world's top three automotive battery producers are in China, South Korea and Japan. So there's clearly a need to ship batteries and not forgetting the aftermarket with growing demand of more than 26,000,000 vehicles already in the market worldwide. And as demand grows, so do the challenges on shipping lithium Ian batteries worldwide. But before we go on, let's start with a question for you. How do you currently ship Legion Ian batteries? And for that we're going to do a very quick poll. You have option here on on on four, but yeah, take the one you use most. But if you have all our transport modes that you use very frequently then then click them too you you you can use them all four if you want. So I will pause for a few seconds. You have time to to select and then we will continue. All right. I see we have quite a high number of people responding, more than half of the attendance have responded that maybe you are still responding. But what we see is, is really Rd. freight to be a the main commodity being used to main transport mode followed by air freight probably due to the what we mentioned earlier, the manufacturing of batteries in in Asia, ocean freight obviously yes, the probably the cheapest way to transport them and integrate us are used for 10% of of the occasions probably when it needs to move fast and reliable. So I'm now going to hand over to Short, our dangerous goods expert here at FedEx will focus more on the challenges we face with shipping lichen batteries and makes an introduction to our solutions. Over to you, Sean. Thanks, John. Thanks. All right. Yeah. What are the challenges? As you probably already know, lithium batteries are under Class 9 in the United Nations classification for dangerous goods. What this means will change depending on the region and mode of transport. There are two major challenges. First is the regulatory compliance. Various regulations govern the transport of hazardous materials, including lithium batteries. These must be adhered to strictly to avoid delays, compliance issues, and possible fines. Another challenge is the infrastructure limitations. The existing infrastructure may not be adequately equipped to handle transport and needs of lithium batteries, especially over long distances. Or different rules apply to different modes of transport. For example, for some bridges or tunnels are closed for DG. Some ferry companies won't accept lithium batteries on passenger ferries, and some airport handlers or airliners must have the right permit in place to handle or to fly lithium lithium batteries all right. So in a transport chain you may face different modes of transport, and each mode will come with their own regulation. The ADR covers the movements by Rd. IATA regulates the air and IMDG is applicable for sea transport. What is most important for you is that these regulations are not fully aligned on all areas, especially when it comes to paperwork requirements, permits, authorizations, limitations and restrictions. However, shipment and the transport of it needs to comply and conform to all the applicable regulations which can be challenging. For example, for Rd. in ADR you have points and those points apply and are driven by the type and the weight of the dangerous goods you are carrying. On board of vehicles you can easily move DG when you stay below the thousand points as you are exempted from most of the ADR requirements. Above the thousand points, you need to fully comply to all the ADR rules which will can have an impact on the routing. Think about the tunnels and bridges are the driver training, the equipment and the documentation. However, these rules don't exist in air regulations and the ADR only applies in Europe, which means that shippers outside of Europe may not be aware of these limitations, the restrictions and the requirements, and that may cause transport issues when they arrive in Europe and have to do the last mile. I will also give you another example related to air, especially when you need to comply with regulation for batteries over 35 kilograms, as well as prototypes and the small series of batteries. Shippers need to apply for an approval by the competent authority in the origin country and an approval by the competent authority in the state of the operator prior to shipping. So in case of a shipment from Germany to Dubai and you would use FedEx for that, you will need to have an approval from the German authority as they are the origin and the US authorities as they are the state of operator as FedEx is based in the US and next to that not all carriers are allowed to carry heavy batteries or prototypes. So moving large batteries or prototype batteries by can also be challenging. However, this whole authorization process doesn't exist and when you move by road, again this shows how complex it is and confusing it can be to ship lithium batteries. All right. And last but not least, we also understand that time is money, including in the aftermarket every mode of transport. A change to it can lead to delay when different operators and carriers are involved. Within FedEx we have to opportunity to move dangerous goods in a combination of different transport modes which will help to reduce the cost, avoid delays and for surely boost the customer satisfaction. And next I want to ask you what are your challenging when shipping lithium batteries? Let's do another poll here. So here you see the four options you have and again you can choose one or two or three or whatever you like and I will give you a few seconds to select what you are face as the most and the biggest challenge and we will go through it after it. So we'll give you a few seconds, we'll get back to you in a second. OK, I will close the poll and we're going to look at the results. So #1, it's clearly packaging and labeling. And to be honest, that is not a surprise. That's something that we hear a lot. That's something that we see a lot from our customers. And I think everybody understands that the robust packaging that can mitigate the risk of damaging and short crushing is crucial here. What we also find customers checking with us regularly is that they want us to do some consulting on dangerous goods. However, we are not able to do that because of liability issues. However, we produce the lithium battery guidance document that would guide you through the marking and labeling process, so it's important to have a look at that one. You can download it from the webinar here, but we'd like to stipulate that it's key that you have your own in house expert or engage a consultant to support you. Make sure you bring your DG expert to the table when you're discussing a transport solution. The requirements for shipping DG may be much more complicated and we think you should not leave this to a professional buyer or a purchase department for your company. Adding an expert to the discussion with your carrier from the beginning will smoothen the whole process. Make sure that the experts talk to each other, they speak the same language and they are able to translate these regulations to your local processes and procedures. All right, the other one, yeah, let's let's also have a quick some some feedback on the heavy batteries. Yeah. The heavy batteries that is requires special approval and our experience is that people are really afraid of applying for these approvals, which is is absolutely not necessary. These approvals are provided by the authorities. For each type of battery, you will need to have two authorizations, one for the state of origin and one for the state of operator. It's clear and key that you have a clearview on the traffic lanes and the legs of the journey so you can identify all airlines involved. This could mean that you have multiple state of operator approvals needed for a for a for a journey Application times. That's also a question we get a lot. Application times may vary per country and state and are depending on the quality of your application. Most countries have a have a dedicated website which contains information on application process and the overview of the required documents which you need to be, which you need to submit. We have the experience, we can guide you where and when needed, when you need to apply in the earth in in certain countries. We also have a license to carry these type of batteries around the world. So that's that would be like a big help. All right. Let's move on. And I think we can go back to you, John. Sorry, John, can't hear you. Sorry, I was on mute. So thanks you would for put a very detailed explanation on the challenges and especially the feedback from the audience what their challenges are. Let's now move into, yeah, into what points, yeah, what, what, where stands, where FedEx stands out in in shipping leach and batteries. What makes us different there we have a unique set of of competencies that adds really value for our customers and of course for you, for you and your customers and help everybody standing out there build a good experience with your customers. At FedEx, we have everything under one roof, which means that you and your customers have complete control and visibility at each stage. We don't use third parties so we can manage quality and very important here, we have over 40 years of experience in shipping dangerous goods including leaching batteries and don't underestimate the importance of that experience here. So to go quickly through, but we will have a few more details later. We have a European Rd. network to ship batteries. We we we have an Air Express network. We have best in class industry teams to help you advising to to to monitor shipments. We have network transportation services and special services under one roof. We have an extensive range of service and and options and and last but not least at FedEx we have the DG capability in both our air and road network including lesion batteries and on top of that we offer specific solutions for for lesion batteries from flexible shipping by playing worldwide or by roads for Europe. We have a dedicated design and implementation team and as I've already said the benefit of experience when it comes to documentation, packaging and labeling and the thing that is also what which would highlight that's that's about one of the challenges that you mentioned. So looking now a bit more detailed in our air network, this is our international air network giving you access to deliver lychium EM batteries to more than sixty countries worldwide including the Americas, Europe, Australia in particular. We transport via our own airlines to and from more than sixty countries. Let's now move a bit closer to to what I say home here in Europe, where FedEx operates a very dense Rd. network. Within Europe we offer competitive, fast and reliable economy service by Rd. You mentioned the radiator, the transport modes used most is roads and I think this network can be perfectly supported that we can get your goods to and from 45 countries in Europe of which 32 are fully dangerous goods approved. Sorry, I go back one step or went a bit too fast. So 32 are fully dangerous goods approved and for urgent shipments we can offer you a solution via our Express Express network or special services. So now we talk about solutions for the various segments, various segments of of the supply chain. So as mentioned probably already we we, we do support heavy freight of heavy lesion batteries, so under the a 88 or a 99 approvals, but we can support small sample batteries or small series of batteries for R&D purposes. We can ship urgent batteries by air for for critical inbound reproduction cases. We support aftermarket distribution services to dealers. We do support returns management of of use or defective batteries when they are safe for for transport. And I think it's also worth noting that Network Solutions are possibly within weight limits, but if we live if, but if weight limits are exceeded, special services can look for a solution and for returns. There is an onboarding process to complete in advance. Also very important to know and that shows that FedEx put a lot of focus on safety and health and health, health and safety compliance. The fact that we have more than 14,690 employees worldwide that are trained as dangerous goods specialists. So that demonstrate that we put safety first high on our agenda. And also yeah, make make sure, make sure that your lithium batteries are in safe hands when shipping them worldwide. So to summarize what we just covered, shipping lithium Ian batteries for the automotive industry is complex but increasingly important. You've seen the growth. You need a partner that understands your challenges and has the experience and capabilities to meet your needs. FedEx delivers all of that and more. But before we we close off today there is there is another question we have let's do a final poll on on that what kind of support do you value most this this is an open free text poll you you can type in whatever you you think is is most valuable for you. This will help us developing our, our proposition going forward, understand or what what your requirements are and these topics we will definitely take with us and we'll address and and come back to that in in future sessions and definitely in our proposition. So hopefully you have had some time to put your your, your your your your support needs in there. But as but as I said in the beginning already there is an icon at the bottom left. If you have specific questions, if you want to get in contact with one of our specialists then click on the link, fill in the form and we'll come come back to you on on that. So if you want to know more as I said you can ask for a contact but also we have produced an easy to follow up guide and I would urge you to visit the resources section and and download it. So if not done already then then you still have time to to do it and then we are going towards the end of the session. However, there is still AQ and A session, so thank you for listening today. We hope you have found it useful and now it's over to you. Does have anyone any questions? And I'm handing over to Oliver to take care of that part of the webinar. Oliver. Thank you, John. I had technical difficulties earlier, as you might have noticed. Can you hear me now? I can hear you perfect. Thanks, Oliver. Great. So hi, I'm Oliver. I make it very short. I work in solution design implementation at FedEx on a lot of the battery cases that we already have received. I have a personal interest in battery. So that's that's why I got here. Thank you, John for the for the handover. We have a few questions. A few of them I will hand out directly to shoot as he is the expert on on regulations. Did FedEx have an import license on from the USDOT to import lithium batteries into over the US? Yes, we have. We have, yeah, we have the, the permit from the FAA. We can move them on our purple aircrafts, on our FedEx aircrafts in and out of Europe and across the world. Does FedEx have a permit from the US government to transport all types of UN3480 Class 9? Similar to the previous question, yes we have. All right. We speaking from the customer side of, we are asked to provide MSDS and other documents in local language assuming for the destination is that regulation. In Europe, you mean? In your specifically shed. No, this is not a requirement. MSDS is not a requirement to have attached to this shipment. It doesn't make it's not mandatory to have it attached to the shippers decoration. So the chippers decoration is sufficient to to move the battery to Sweden. All right. Another question is the approval in the USI assume that's the special provision, a 88 or 99, a temporary one or only valid for one ship shipment. That's something I can answer. It is temporary in the sense that it has an expiration date. Usually it's about a year. I have never seen a permit for a specific number of shipments or for a single shipment. Not sure if that exists. It's, it's, it's based on the type of battery and like you said, it's for one year usually, yeah. But I've never seen one that says this is for just 10 shipments within that. At least for me that would be new. I had never came across such a requirement or limitation. Indeed. Are you shipping to New Zealand? Yes, we do. What is the size limit on DG batteries? To my knowledge, there's no limitation on the size of batteries other than the size and weight and dim limitations for that service. And what service you can use depends on where you want to go and what you want to ship, but there's no specific DG limitation on on that front. The size and weight of the shipment may however limit the type of options you have to ship a battery. That could be true, very very specific on the individual case transport in Europe, will the shipment be mixed with the normal shipments or will it be extra DG way? The routing is usually the same as with with DG and with normal shipments with non DG shipments. However, if we go out of Europe, if we are flying there might be there might be separations. Again depends on the individual case, what mode of transport and that's summarizing a lot of questions. So we have. What options do we have for old and defective batteries? Let's make that 2 questions. One is old end of life batteries which are principally in working order but just at the end of their of their life in a in a vehicle. And what options do we have for defective, as in broken batteries should? Yeah, for defective we can only move by Rd. because as per yata regulations it's not, it's not allowed to ship a defective or damaged lithium batteries by air. So we are limited to road to the road network and yeah we can handle them. But there is we'd like to have some more information on the risk. You know, we'd like to do a small risk assessment. You know, how, how, how damaged are they? What is the risk of, you know, these batteries Catching Fire? That's something we'd like to have up front, this, this kind of information. Yeah. Thank you. A lot of questions in relation to the state of charge. What state of charge do we accept? Must it be declared two different locations? Usually that is governed by the regulation for that specific mode of transport or is stated specifically in the 88 or a 99 approval. Usually that's about 30% or lower, yeah. Correct. And we we go with what the IATA says. So we follow the other rules, so 30% state of charge. A lot of questions to reach out. We will do that after the call. So we're keeping all of these questions and come back to you. We will answer every single one, a lot of questions to specific destinations. Can we send batteries to the Middle East, to Australia, to the US, to China and so on. Let's start with with the Middle East. It's a big, big region, but yes we can. Looking through we have other destinations as well. Basically the answer is we will reach out to you after that after the seminar. But the the the easy answer is to the US the answer is just yes. And to all of the others it depends on what batteries you want to ship and where do you exactly do you want to ship them. Can you transport end of life batteries for recycling? That's a tricky one. That depends on whether the how you'd classify the battery. Is it waste then you know you have to have special permits. Is it end of live battery that needs to go for research or investigation? That's that's that's a different classification. Waste is is heavily regulated. You need to have permit especially if you cross borders, so you need to be careful with that one. It's unfortunately waste is not something that FedEx will take. Some questions from Chinese companies. How do I get an account? How do I got get that qualified? We will reach out to you after the seminar For this will you send cars? So I assume the entire EV with the car around the battery. It's a good question. That's. I'm sorry. I'll go ahead. I'm aware of a couple of of solutions where we did that although we sent the car and the battery separate because if you put the the car in the battery in the car for some regulations the the weight of the car adds to the DG mass you have to you have to send. So we send both separate. Again that depends very much on where do you want to go, what type of battery you have, what type of car you have and so on and so forth. Again a lot of people asking for for contacts. We will we will reach out to you don't worry. Are dangerous goods value insured from damage and loss? No, sorry that's they are under our normal terms and conditions, so yes. What kind of packaging and labeling do I need to move a battery? That is an answer that is a question best put to your local DG expert who you need to to pack, label and ship a battery. If there's any questions beyond that, or if he has questions to the forwarder moving the battery that's an incumbent, then feel free to reach out to us. Yeah. And don't forget that we have this guidance document which will help you mark and label the shipments compliant incorrectly. Yeah, it is downloadable from this this webinar. A lot of questions on the 1A and 1B sections. What do I do with a specific number of cells or packs or batteries per pack? We will reach out to you on your specific case after the seminar state of charge. We had that which documents are required for shipment of Lithium Ion batteries for more than 100 Watt hours from Germany to Ireland. Just to pick one of the of these questions. And it's also in the guidance documents we just discussed. But it's a shipper's declaration to ship deck. That's all you need. Do we need to do we need transfer data for special provision batteries? Sorry, I don't get the question. There's not more here. So we reached out to you after that and I believe that is most of the directions the questions are going in. Can you provide a contact to attain a special provision? Doesn't say a country, but the answer is obviously the same. So basically, where whom can we reach out to? What? What governmental body do we need to contact and how do we contact them to attain our A 99 or a 8080? We as a as a, as a as a as a carrier, you mean? We as a company. The question is posed by by by a company. So how does the sender attain the special provision? Well, you need to, you need to go through the to the to the website of your regulator of your sorry, your competent authority and they will have a section there where you can apply for a permits. Sometimes they have a special area for these kind of lithium batteries, these special approvals if needed we can provide you some some some guidance on where to go to and what to present to these to these authorities. We have that information for most of the European countries and for yeah, the best way is to to reach out to your account executive and get in touch via this this person. The FedEx provide a dangerous goods packaging service for batteries. No, unfortunately not. This is all with liability and it should be taken forward by a specialized company, consultancy company or a specialized company. We cannot do that for the customer. Can you provide lead times and prices for and There's a lot of origins and destinations here that depends on the individual situation. Lead times with dangerous goods based on regulation are always a bit of a question mark, but we can we can go into detail of that. The pricing, if you already have rates, it should already cover DG shipments. If it does not, please reach out to your account representative. Do you need any special permissions or requirements to ship batteries by which I would assume it meant aside from from the regulation, The FedEx in and of itself needs its own paperwork basically. Additional paperwork for FedEx you mean? Right. Do we need more than what is required by law to to the battery? No, no, we we we stick to what IATA says and what's required for IATA, and that's sufficient for FedEx. There's no additional paperwork required. And I believe that is the majority of topics asked. We have a lot of questions here, so apologies if I overlooked your specific question, but we've as again said earlier, we will reach out to you for every single question. So thank you and back to you, John. OK. Thank you very much, Oliver. I heard a lot of great questions and many questions that really shows that there is a lot of interest for for this these solutions. And I would say don't hesitate to contact us if you have any more questions. Leave me to go to the last slide and thank you all for for joining. I hope you have enjoyed it. You found this webinar very useful and you have a better understanding of shipping leaching batteries and how felt and how fetish can help you to do it. Remember that you can access more information through the resources section and please fill in the two question survey when you close off. So one more time, thank you very much and looking forward to to future webinars to discuss these topics. Thank you. Have a nice day. Bye, bye. Bye, bye. Goodbye. _1739679582659