IATA Battery Guidance Document 2025

2025 IATA Battery Guidance Document

IATA have updated the battery guidance document to reflect the revisions made in the 2025-2026 edition of the ICAO Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air (Technical Instructions) and the 66th edition (2025) of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR).

There have been significant changes in the document when compared to the 2024 edition.

Changes include:

• Addition of sodium ion batteries UN numbers and regulations
• Addition of Cargo-Tracking Devices, Data Loggers, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and Electronic Bag Tags
• Updates to lithium and sodium batteries classification
• Updates to lithium and sodium batteries restrictions

You can access the lithium-battery-guidance-document 2025 here.

Information correct at date of publishing 03/01/25