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Shipping from Dalian to Batumi

Dalian to Batumi

Yellow Sea · Taiwan Strait · Malacca Strait · Indian Ocean · Bab-el-Mandeb · Suez Canal · Bosporus · Black Sea

Sea corridor illustration: Dalian to Batumi, Georgia Simplified map with a curved corridor from Dalian via Yellow Sea, Taiwan Strait, Malacca Strait, Indian Ocean, Bab-el-Mandeb, Suez Canal, Bosporus, Black Sea to Batumi. Illustration only; not a vessel track or schedule. CHINAINDIASOUTHEAST ASIACENTRAL ASIA Taiwan StraitSingapore / MalaccaBab-el-MandebSuez CanalBosporus DalianCHINA ORIGIN BatumiGEORGIA DalianBOHAI SEASHANDONGDEPARTURE AREA
  1. DalianChina origin
  2. Yellow Sea
  3. Taiwan Strait
  4. Malacca Strait
  5. Indian Ocean
  6. Bab-el-Mandeb
  7. Suez Canal
  8. Bosporus
  9. Black Sea
  10. BatumiGeorgia
Geographic corridor illustration only, not a vessel track, port-call list or sailing schedule. The loading terminal, carrier, transshipment and dates are confirmed per shipment.

From Dalian to Batumi, cargo moves out of Dalian, the north-east's gateway on the Yellow Sea, crosses a Suez, Aegean and Bosporus passage into the Black Sea, and is discharged at the port of Batumi.

Georgia applies its own import and product rules on arrival. The 5 points below are particular to this lane; each comes with what we do and the paperwork it touches.

What we need to start

  • Dalian Dayaowan export
  • Winter ice & spring fog
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Route profile

The Dalian → Batumi route in brief

Origin port

Dalian (Dayaowan)

North-east China's battery gateway at Dayaowan, with a small but growing lithium export flow, a local MSA that has named misdeclaration as its main problem, and both winter ice and spring fog.

Sea corridor

Asia – Black Sea via Suez and the Turkish Straits

Suez, the Aegean and the Turkish Straits, with a 24-hour DG sailing plan before the Bosporus and, since September 2026, almost the whole Black Sea on the war-risk list.

Blue harbour crane booms above a quay building in Dalian harbour
A loaded container ship on the horizon

Where this route gets difficult

5 pain points from Dalian to Batumi

Loading port first, then the sea leg, then Batumi and the Georgia market.

  1. Origin port

    Sea fog off Dalian, April to July

    Sea fog is one of the main marine hazards of the Yellow and Bohai Seas according to the China Meteorological Administration, concentrated between April and July and with a serious effect on shipping. A vessel held at anchor by fog can arrive late enough to push a box beyond the sailing its documents name.

    What Anxin does: In the fog season we avoid tight stuffing-to-cut-off gaps and keep the filing data ready to amend if the vessel changes.

  2. Origin port

    Winter sea ice near Dayaowan

    The Bohai Sea and the northern Yellow Sea freeze every winter. For 2021/22 China's marine forecast centre expected floating ice around 15 nautical miles offshore in the northern Yellow Sea, where Dayaowan is, and around 60 in Liaodong Bay, with the peak between mid-January and mid-February.

    What Anxin does: For January–February sailings from Dalian we allow extra time between stuffing and the DG cut-off and reconfirm the vessel schedule the week before loading.

  3. China export

    Two maritime filings and a signed packing certificate before loading

    Every lithium battery container leaving Dalian needs a cargo safe-carriage report and a ship's dangerous goods permit filed with the Maritime Safety Administration by a certified declarant, and a container packing certificate signed by a certified inspector who watched the stuffing. Separately, customs must have appraised the packaging in use; export of dangerous goods in unappraised packaging is not allowed.

    What Anxin does: We work only with packing sites and declarants holding the required certificates, and we collect the packaging use-appraisal result before the container is stuffed.

  4. Sea corridor

    Turkish Straits: Sailing Plan 1 a day ahead

    Before entering the Turkish Straits, a ship with dangerous cargo files Sailing Plan 1 with the Turkish Straits VTS at least 24 hours ahead, listing the dangerous goods classes on board. A class 9 battery container is part of that list, so wrong or late DG data on the manifest can delay the ship at the entrance.

    What Anxin does: We make sure the DG manifest data (UN number, class, quantity, container number) are final and match the booking before the vessel leaves the last port before the straits.

  5. Sea corridor

    Suez first, and Bab el-Mandeb before that

    The Black Sea is reached through Suez. Mediterranean-type services used the Red Sea routing 57% of the time in September 2026, and the JMIC rated Bab el-Mandeb SUBSTANTIAL, with the Houthis holding Perim Island in the channel.

    What Anxin does: We ask the carrier which routing the service uses and name it on the quote.

Locator map of Batumi, GeorgiaBatumi
Locator map in the same projection as the corridor map; the dot marks the listed port position (41.65°N, 41.65°E).
Container ship alongside blue gantry cranes at the Juan Carlos I dock, Algeciras

Documents & compliance

Checklist for Dalian → Batumi

These documents come from the shipper, the manufacturer and the importer. Anxin checks them against each other; it does not issue test reports, safety data sheets or import certificates.

In Dalian, before the box is loaded

  • UN number, class, quantity and SDS reconciled across all documents before the Dalian filing
  • Load plan showing even weight distribution (no more than 60% of the cargo weight in either half of the container length)
  • Safety data sheet and dangerous goods safe-carriage declaration for the MSA cargo report
  • Customs packaging use-appraisal result for the dangerous goods packaging (with the maker's performance appraisal)
  • Container packing certificate signed by a certified packing inspector after supervised stuffing

For the carrier and the voyage

  • Final DG manifest data ready before the vessel reaches the Turkish Straits
  • Condition statement: new, used, damaged/defective (SP376) or for recycling (SP377)
  • War-risk surcharge for the Black Sea port stated in writing
Two power-tool battery packs side by side
Before you book

One consistent file

A document that is present but inconsistent holds a booking as surely as a missing one: the UN number, model name or carton count reads differently in the Dalian export filings, the carrier booking and the Georgia import papers. We compare all three before confirming space.

Carriers we book with

Our booking panel; availability on this lane and acceptance of the declared UN numbers are confirmed for each booking. It does not mean that a listed carrier runs a direct service on this route. Carrier choice depends on the trade lane, cargo classification and each carrier's dangerous-goods acceptance at booking. The final carrier is confirmed on the booking.

Risk & mitigation

Risks on this route and who deals with them

RiskWhereMitigationWho acts
Ice delays berthing in mid-winterNorthern Yellow Sea, Jan–FebExtra time before cut-off; schedule reconfirmedCarrier, monitored by Anxin
Fog hold delays the vessel; filings need amendingYellow Sea, Apr–JulAmendment-ready filing dataAnxin with the declarant
Incorrect DG data in the straits sailing planTurkish StraitsManifest checked against the bookingCarrier, with data from Anxin

Questions

Questions about shipping from Dalian to Batumi

Possibly. Since 16 September 2026 almost the whole Black Sea, outside Turkish, Georgian, Bulgarian and Romanian territorial waters, is a Joint War Committee listed area, and underwriters may charge additional premiums. We get the carrier's surcharge in writing.

Sea ice forms every winter in the northern Yellow Sea; in 2021/22 it was forecast to reach about 15 nautical miles out there, peaking mid-January to mid-February. We plan extra time for those weeks.

The 30% ceiling is an air-transport rule (IATA PI 965 for lithium-ion batteries shipped alone). The sea guidance we rely on sets no general 30% cap for UN3480 or UN3481, but a carrier may set its own condition, so we confirm it at booking.

References

Where these points come from

  1. Turkish Straits Maritime Traffic Regulation (English translation) (Republic of Türkiye (translation published by VDA))
  2. JMIC Update 099 to Advisory Note (Joint Maritime Information Center (via UKMTO))
  3. Sea ice arrives: what are the impacts? (Bohai and northern Yellow Sea, winter 2021/22) (China Meteorological Administration (from China Natural Resources News))
  4. Sea fog in the Yellow and Bohai Seas (fog season mainly April–July) (China Meteorological Administration (from Guangming Daily))
  5. Export dangerous goods packaging inspection: service guide (Chinese) (General Administration of Customs of China (Lanzhou Customs service guide))
  6. IATA Battery Guidance Document – Revised for the 2026 Regulations (IATA)

Next step

From enquiry to import

  1. 1EnquiryCargo, origin, destination
  2. 2Documents checkUN 38.3, SDS, packing
  3. 3BookingAfter carrier acceptance
  4. 4HandoverAt Dalian
  5. 5ImportClearance at Batumi
Each step is confirmed in writing; an enquiry does not create a booking.

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Origin and destination are filled in; add the cargo facts you have.

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After you send it

We check carrier acceptance for Dalian → Batumi before any booking, and ask for missing battery documents first.

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