Shipping dangerous goods and Effective practices

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• In the world of International Shipping the world
  leaders like DHL and FedEx have maintained a long
  term relationship with their customers in order
  to grow their business at a tremendous rate at
  the world business arena, but there are certain
  facts that makes these giants completely
  different from the rest.
• Shipping dangerous goods is a very difficult work
  to do that requires lots of attention and care
  while shipping to the desired location around the
  globe and for that lots of care and precautions
  need to be taken into account. Shipping Solutions
  For Ecommerce is in growing demand as every
  business owner gives lots of emphasis.

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• Shipping Dangerous Goods in DHL
• DHL is an established carrier of Dangerous Goods
  and as a leading transportation and logistics
  company, DHL Express adheres to the following
  regulations
• IATA for air transport, applicable within all
  countries which work under the ICAO regulations
  and any airline under the IATA regulations
• ADR for road transport, applicable within all
  countries that have adopted the ADR convention in
  their legislation and additionally within Europe,
  the EU directives concerning the transport of
  Dangerous Goods (Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor)
• Shippers are responsible to confirm if their
  dangerous goods shipments will transit to
  destination by air or road and prepare the
  shipment accordingly. Source

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• Shipping Dangerous Goods in FedEx
• FedEx Express is a world leader in the transport
  of dangerous goods and has specialists on staff
  to assist with dangerous goods questions.
  Shipments with dangerous goods must be tendered
  to FedEx Express in accordance with current
  International Air Transport Association (IATA)
  regulations for air transport and the FedEx
  Express Terms and Conditions. This is required
  regardless of the routing and whether the
  shipment ends up physically moving by air
  transportation, ground transportation or a
  combination of these. For added confidence, use a
  FedEx DG Ready solution to generate your
  dangerous goods declaration. Your solution will
  transmit your information to FedEx to
  pre-validate your shipment before you offer it to
  FedEx Express. Source
• The well known company Shopify also provides a
  plugin for shipping solution named as Shopify
  Shipping Plugin with the help of which it will be
  easier to perform shipping related tasks with
  your fingertips.