DGM

DGM was established in 1987 in The Netherlands by founding father Frank Petillon.  Frank saw an opportunity to offer professional expertise to the industry due to the complex and conflicting regulations for the transport of dangerous goods. His career began in the airline industry where he served with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. He later left KLM Royal and began working in the freight forwarding industry where he would eventually start his own forwarding company, Air Cargo Express, based in Amsterdam. Once ACE was well established he began to concentrate full-time on the development of Dangerous Goods initiatives.

DGM started as a division of Frank Petillon’s forwarding company ACE – Air Cargo Express. In 1988 DGM broke away from ACE and became its own entity. DGM has expanded its scope of services over the years to assist air carriers: for technical assistance, cargo inspections, repack and re-document shipments in transit, or to prepare new sets of Shipper’s Declarations for Dangerous Goods by Air, under DGM’s responsibility. 

DGM also arranged ADR or IMDG paperwork for dangerous goods which were shipped as air cargo, but then were to be carried by road on airline air waybill, or which connected to ferry services (IATA/ICAO rules, versus ADR road, versus the IMO/IMDG maritime rules and regulations).