Transport of certain products is subject to special regulations for safety reasons.
It is strictly prohibited to ship:
Weapons and ammunition, bladed weapons, bows, crossbows, or similar items.
The following are also strictly prohibited: tobacco products, alcohol, and food. It is also forbidden to send devices and machines that contain fuel or oil residues, as well as pyrotechnic materials. The regulations below are strictly enforced by courier companies, and ignoring them may lead to serious legal consequences.
LIST OF PROHIBITED ITEMS
Items subject to an absolute ban on carriage in sea and air shipments.
Guns, firearms and other devices that discharge projectiles—devices capable of, or appearing to be capable of, causing serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:
- firearms of all types such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns,
- gun-shaped toys, replicas and imitations of firearms that could be mistaken for real weapons,
- firearm components, except telescopic sights,
- air and CO₂ guns such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and BB guns,
- signal flare launchers and starting pistols,
- bows, crossbows and arrows,
- harpoon and spear guns,
- slingshots and catapults.
Explosives and incendiary substances and devices—explosives and incendiary substances/devices capable of causing serious injury or posing a threat to the safety of an aircraft, including:
- ammunition,
- primers,
- detonators and fuses,
- mines, grenades and other military explosives,
- fireworks and other pyrotechnic materials,
- smoke canisters and smoke cartridges,
- dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives,
- electronic cigarettes (including e-cigars, pipes and other personal vaporizing devices) containing batteries,
- airwheel, solowheel, hoverboard, mini-segway, balance wheel,
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones.
Shipment is also prohibited for:
- valuable items, including money,
- precious metals and jewelry,
- documents and trade samples, passports, IDs and other securities,
- items which, due to their characteristics and properties—including type, weight, size, perishability, delicacy, fragility or special sensitivity—are unsuitable for transport,
- dangerous or harmful items that may pose a risk to people or means of transport.
If, despite the ban, items that may not be transported are placed in a shipment, carriage will be entirely at the sender’s risk.
Stunning devices—devices specifically designed to stun or immobilize, including:
- electroshock devices such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons,
- devices for stunning and slaughtering animals,
- incapacitating and disabling chemicals, gases and aerosols such as tear gas, pepper spray, acid sprayers and animal-repellent aerosols.
Sharp-pointed or sharp-edged items—items with a sharp point or edge capable of causing serious injury, including:
- chopping tools such as axes, hatchets and cleavers,
- ice axes and ice picks,
- razor blades,
- box cutters,
- knives with blades longer than 6 cm,
- scissors with blades longer than 6 cm measured from the pivot point,
- martial-arts equipment with a sharp point or edge,
- swords, rapiers and sabres.
Examples of hazardous materials:
- dry ice,
- refrigerant packs containing chilled liquid nitrogen,
- a cylinder with non-flammable gas installed in a life jacket, containing carbon dioxide or another suitable gas,
- oxygen or air, gaseous, small cylinders for medical use,
- alcoholic beverages,
- cylinders with non-flammable, non-toxic gas used to operate artificial limbs.
NOTE: The carrier may refuse to accept a shipment because of its contents or if it is not packed in a way that ensures safe carriage when handled with ordinary care. Proper packing and addressing/labeling of the shipment is recommended. The carrier is not liable for items that are easily breakable or perishable, nor for money, jewelry and other valuables, documents, trade samples, etc.
