About us

Special Cargo Houston is a specialty materials compliance company delivering hazardous cargo solutions including packing, documentation, regulatory consulting, and education services to the Houston area energy market.  Our sole focus is ensuring our customer’s products will be handled correctly, timely, and in accordance with all regulations.

Special Cargo Houston is aligned with Special Cargo BV, a family-owned full-service dangerous goods company for the past 20 years based in The Netherlands. Special cargo BV is a leader in dangerous goods handling and innovation, featuring a team of highly trained specialists supporting a global portfolio of customers.

Professionally Packed and Documented Hazardous Goods

In Compliance with All Laws and Regulations

With Transparent and Fair Pricing

Every Time – No Exceptions!

Our mission

Special Cargo Houston strives to be the most knowledgeable, customer driven organization servicing the Houston energy sector for dangerous goods packing and documentation, project management, consultancy and classification services, professional training, and regulatory requirements. Our highly trained staff is dedicated to providing industry leading solutions while promoting the highest standards of local and international regulatory compliance in line with our customer’s business objectives.

Special Cargo Houston began operations in April 2020 offering professional expertise for safely and correctly navigating the complex and conflicting regulations for the transport of dangerous goods.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic and labor market challenges, the company has continued to grow its customer base which values the quality service and customer-centric focus provided by our dedicated personnel.

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Certifications

  • International Air
    Transportation Association
    (IATA)
  • International Civil Aviation
    Organization (ICAO)
  • International Maritime
    Organization (IMO)
  • Department of
    Transportation (DOT)
  • Radioactive Materials by Air

Our services

Hazardous Packing
Consulting and
Project Management
Professional Training
People
Regulatory
Safety
Safety

Hazardous Packing

The transportation of hazardous commodities requires specialized knowledge to ensure safe transport and compliance with all local laws and regulations across all modes of transportation. Special Cargo Houston's trained and certified staff and experienced management teams gives clients the confidence that shipments will be packed, marked and labeled correctly, with the proper documentation to ensure efficient and delay-free onward transport.

  • Visual check of shipment
  • Marking and labelling in accordance with MOT and regulations
  • Preparation of required paperwork

Specialty Services

  • Dangerous goods packing: Pre-transportation activities include checking, labeling, repackaging, and documentation of hazardous goods including Class 1 Explosives and Lithium Batteries
  • UN4D Wooden Crates: Special Cargo Houston is the only packing company in the Houston area that designs and manufactures UN4D wooden crates. UN4D wooden crates are certified and tested to meet or exceed UN performance packaging specifications as well as providing other benefits:
    • Allow shippers to maximize consolidation of hazardous materials in 4 different UN4D sizes up to 275 kg gross weight is rated for both liquid and solid materials.
    • Cargo security has never been more important.
    • UN4D wooden crates ensure your hazardous materials arrive safely at their destination regardless of the mode of transportation.
  • Chemical Re-pours: Special Cargo Houston’s experienced and highly trained staff can safely and efficiently handle chemical repours. Re=pouring chemical from large containers such as drums and totes into smaller UN Spec packaging such as jerricans or pails allows shippers to change the mode of transportation from ocean to air to meet carrier quantity limits per hazardous material.
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Consulting and Project Management

Special Cargo Houston is a full service hazardous packing, consulting, project planning and management and training company ready to help your company transport hazardous commodities safely, efficiently and at the lowest cost.

  • Classification and identification of dangerous goods
  • Design and implement freight consolidation program
  • Pre-fabricated box construction for high volume materials
  • Chemical re-pours
  • DOT pre-audit consulting services
  • Lead discovery and expert witness services
  • Program reviews and system audits
  • Risk assessments and mitigation expertise
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Professional Training

Special Cargo Houston can help your company develop a hazardous material compliance program meeting all local and international regulations, offering a complete suite of online and instructor-led general awareness and function-specific hazardous training courses to fit your business needs. Anyone involved in the preparation or transportation of hazardous commodities MUST be trained and certified to increase safety awareness and reduce hazardous material incidents. A few examples of hazmat employees that must be trained and certified:

  • Forklift drivers
  • OTR drivers
  • Personnel completing shipping paperwork
  • Dangerous goods packers and handlers

The consequences of noncompliance with hazardous material regulations can be severe for businesses (significant financial penalties) and people (injury and loss of life). An effective training program is an essential part of any organization’s compliance culture around the handling of hazardous materials.

Online E-Learning Training Modules

Special Cargo Houston offers standalone hazardous training modules for all modes of transportation and lithium battery shipments. We can also offer bundled pricing packages for all available e-learning modules at a steep discount. Upon completion of each training module, users will receive a certificate that can be printed or saved and is valid for two years.

49 CFR Dangerous Goods Awareness

For employees involved in handling, shipping, and/or transporting Dangerous Goods. Upon completion of this course, the employee will be compliant with the most up-to-date regulations per the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Title 49 (49 CFR).

Dangerous Goods by Air Awareness

This course will provide the necessary initial or recurrent training to employees involved in handling, shipping, and/or transporting Dangerous Goods by Air. Upon completion of the course, the employee will be compliant with the most up-to-date regulations from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

Dangerous Goods by Sea Awareness

This course will provide the necessary initial or recurrent training to employees involved in handling, shipping, and/or transporting Dangerous Goods by Sea. Upon completion of the course, the employee will be compliant with the most up-to-date regulations from the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Lithium Batteries by Air

Intended for anyone involved in the handling, shipping, and/or transport of Lithium Batteries by Air. This course will fulfill the requirements according to Part 1, Chapter 4 of the ICAO TI and subsections 1.5 and 1.6 of the IATA DGR for the transport of Lithium Batteries as stand-alone, contained in equipment, and packed in equipment.

Accredited IATA USA Course 1

H.6.0 - Understanding the basics of Dangerous Goods - USA

This course meets the training requirements of ICAO Technical Instructions for the safe transport of Dangerous Goods by Air Acquire basic knowledge of the transport of Dangerous Goods by Air. To complete this module, the student needs to have a copy of the IATA DGR (2022 Edition). All modules will have exercises to complete and the user must pass a 10-question test at the end. To pass the module, the delegate needs a minimum score of 80%, which will be calculated on the result of all modules together.

Accredited IATA USA Course 2

Dangerous Goods by Air - Online - USA

Preparation of Dangerous Goods shipments. To complete this module, the student needs to have a copy of the IATA DGR (2022 Edition). Learn how the IATA DGR is organized, which system is applied and how to use the book. All modules will have exercises to complete and the user must pass a 10-question test at the end. To pass the module, the delegate needs a minimum score of 80%, which will be calculated on the results of all modules together.

Preparing shipments of Radioactive Material - Online - USA

This course meets the training requirements of ICAO Technical Instructions for preparing Radioactive shipments for transport of Dangerous Goods by Air. To complete this module, the student needs to have a copy of the IATA DGR (2022 edition). Learn how the IATA DGR is organized, which system is applied and how to use the book. All modules will have exercises to complete and the user must pass a 10-question test at the end. To pass the module, the delegate needs a minimum score of 80%, which will be calculated on the results of all modules together.

Special Cargo Houston will offer instructor-led and online training modules for IATA, IMDG, 49CFR, Lithium Battery Awareness, and Dangerous Goods Awareness

  • Instructor led training services at in-house training facility
  • Instructor led hazardous training at customer locations
  • E-Learning Modules: Online self-paced training for general
    awareness of hazardous shipping regulations
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People

Special Cargo Houston is led by an experienced management team from diverse backgrounds including shipper, freight forwarder, packing and regulatory forming the foundation for the most knowledgeable, customer driven organization in the Houston market, designed to provide industry leading solutions in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Our highly trained staff is dedicated to providing industry-leading solutions while promoting the highest standards of local and international regulatory compliance in line with our customer’s business objectives.

Experience Highlights:

  • Hazardous Material Packing, Training and Compliance Specialist for International transportation of Dangerous Goods
  • DOT Pre-Audit consulting services
  • Discovery and expert witness for legal cases concerning dangerous goods
  • Specialist in the handling, packing and compliance for Explosives
  • Specialist in the packing of dangerous goods for US Military
  • Chemical re-pour specialist meeting Airfreight regulations
  • Design, manufacture and testing of UN4D plywood boxes
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Regulatory

Handling dangerous goods is complex and regulations continue to change. The consequences can be significant if you do not comply with the legal requirements. You and your company can trust Special Cargo Houston to ensure:

  • Compliance with all legal responsibilities
  • Focused training highlighting the risks of storage and transport of dangerous goods
  • Optimize relevant business processes to enable you to work more efficiently
  • Full visibility of cargo flow in warehouse
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Safety

Special Cargo Houston’s success depends on our continuous improvement of quality of services, zero tolerance in our focus on safety and environmental standards, and to distinguish ourselves from the competition by driving efficiency. The core of our philosophy is to commit ourselves to the highest safety standards in the best interest of our customers, our employees, the environment and the communities in which we live and work.

  • All warehouse employees in fully certified to handle dangerous goods
  • Safety equipment required on warehouse floor
  • Company is regularly audited by PHEMSA, FAA, Fire Marshal
  • Meet customer safety requirements and ensure continuous satisfaction
  • Continually improve our processes, services and quality
  • Guarantee health, safety and security of our people at all times
  • Identify, investigate and eliminate areas of non-conformance
  • Ensure our impact on the environment is minimized
  • Comply to all relevant laws & regulations
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Certifications