This notice is to inform stakeholders that on March 31, 2022, Transport Canada (TC) concluded its transportation of dangerous goods pilot project: Regulatory sandbox on electronic shipping documents. The project was launched in 2020, with a goal to evaluate whether using electronic shipping (e-shipping) documents might be a viable alternative to the mandated paper format for transporting dangerous goods in Canada via air, marine, rail and road.
While challenges emerged in trial-testing the conversion of hard copy shipping documents to digital, it was realized that several benefits could be gained — including enabling first responders to access information without approaching potentially hazardous situations, enabling faster sharing of information, improving accuracy, and significantly reducing paper and ink use. In fact, as a result of the pilot project in which seven companies from the rail, road and remotely piloted aircraft system sectors participated, over 21 million sheets of paper were saved while greatly facilitating the participants’ ability to search for and update shipping information.
Full Details can be found in the Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 156, Number 20