Pilots call for ban as Boeing warns airlines of carrying lithium-ion batteries as cargo

21/07/2015

Freighter operators could see increased numbers of shipments of lithium-ion batteries after Boeing issued a warning to passenger airlines over the risks.

The planemaker has urged passenger airlines not to carry lithium-ion batteries as cargo until “safer methods of packaging and transport are established and implemented”, ...

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gerry flood
July 22, 2015 at 12:50 pm
Our company,LithSafe, focuses on the safe transport and storage of Lithium ion technologies to insure the safe, continued growth of this technology.

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