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The following documents are required: A. Shipping instruction form; B. English version of the MSDS; C. Scanned copy of the hazardous goods permit (a scanned copy is needed at the time of booking, while the original is required for subsequent declaration); D. The carrier’s hazardous goods application form. After submitting these four documents to the shipping company, it usually takes about two working days for processing, depending on the specific carrier – KMTC, MSK, MSC, EMC, HMM, SITC, CMA, WHL, and TSL are all capable of handling hazardous goods shipments. After review by the shipping company, some of them send the applications to their headquarters for approval, which results in a slower processing time; it is therefore necessary to urge them to proceed with the scheduling. The pre-shipment document usually includes the ship name, voyage number, bill of lading number, port of transshipment code, and the deadline for submitting the hazard declaration, among other things. Once you have the pre-arrangement from the shipping company, you can proceed with the subsequent steps, such as scheduling the shipment for Saturday; the pre-arrangement states that the deadline for submitting the hazard declaration is 10 a.m. on Tuesday. That means you need to have the container number by early Tuesday morning at the latest; orders are issued on the usual day for the fleet, and the containers are picked up the following morning. So, based on this pre-arrangement, you need to send the order details to the fleet on Monday, so that they can issue the equipment order on that day. Only with this equipment order can a container be requested; once the container is obtained, it will have a container number, and it is with this number that the hazardous materials declaration can be completed. Upon completing the hazard declaration, a hazardous goods declaration form will be issued, which includes the customs receipt number. After the fleet receives your release order on Monday, it will issue the equipment handover form on the same day. The day after, that is on Tuesday, the boxes will be prepared. On Tuesday morning, you will be given a packing list and a packing certificate; they will also send the warehouse details at the same time, and the shipping agent will receive those details once they are sent. Then you send the packing list, packing certificate, and dangerous goods declaration authorization to the declaring agency, which will complete the declaration by 10 a.m. Then, once the delivery team finds the warehouse information, the hazardous materials declaration for this shipment is complete. After completing the hazardous materials declaration, the goods are taken to the warehouse for loading (or transported to the factory by truck). It is generally recommended to bring the goods to the warehouse around Thursday, as ships depart on Saturdays; the hazardous materials handling area handles such shipments separately, and it’s useless to deliver the goods early. After delivery to the warehouse on Thursday, the warehouse will handle the internal packing. Before that, inform the warehouse whether any processing is needed for the goods – such as labeling, whether palletizing is required (and what type of pallets), whether fumigation is necessary or not, whether reinforcement is needed (simple reinforcement or American-style reinforcement), and whether hazard labels are required for small items. The cost of packing hazardous goods is relatively high, significantly higher than that for ordinary goods. All of this needs to be confirmed before packing; trying to make changes after packing is time-consuming and difficult. Moreover, hazardous goods warehouses already have a limited number of staff, and they are not very willing to go through the extra effort of making adjustments. As mentioned earlier, once the submitting company completes the hazard declaration, they will go to the maritime authorities in the afternoon to obtain the electronic version of the entry permit; the fleet can then use this electronic version to enter the port. After entering the port, customs clearance is arranged; once clearance is granted, waiting begins for the ship to set sail, after which the shipping company issues the bill of lading.