Choosing the right Category 3 ABP container setup
Compare container options for Category 3 animal by-products haulage, including box type, cleanliness, paperwork and port collection…
Animal by-products
Animal feed container haulage, APHA Category 3
A haulier carrying Category 3 animal by-products has to be registered with APHA, and most container hauliers are not. We are, under U1433815/TRANS, to carry animal feed in shipping containers from the quay to your premises.
- APHA registration
- U1433815/TRANS
- What it covers
- Category 3 animal feed in shipping containers, quay to premises
- Also held
- Upper tier waste carrier and dealer, CBDU471791
Price a Category 3 collection
What it is
What Category 3 means for the haulage
Animal by-products are animal material not intended for people to eat, and the rules sort them into three categories by risk. Categories 1 and 2 are high risk. Category 3 is low risk: parts of animals passed fit for human consumption, food of animal origin withdrawn for commercial reasons rather than because it was unfit, eggs and egg products, hides, skins, feathers and wool, and processed animal protein. Categories 1 and 2 may not be used to make pet food.
The rules follow the material from the quay to its destination. Whoever carries it must be registered with APHA, and a registered haulier that hands a load to a subcontractor needs that subcontractor registered too. Vehicles and containers carrying it have to be covered and leak-proof, and cleaned, disinfected and dried before and after every use. The packaging, container or vehicle is labelled with the category and, for Category 3, the words ‘not for human consumption’. Categories are kept apart.
A haulier without the registration cannot legally take the load, whatever the rate, which keeps the list of container hauliers who can take it short. APHA’s transport guidance sets out the rules in full.
Our registration at a glance
- Registered with
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
- Reference
- U1433815/TRANS
- Category
- Category 3 animal by-products
- Scope
- Animal feed in shipping containers, quay to premises
- Waste
- Upper tier carrier and dealer, CBDU471791
Category definitions and transport rules from GOV.UK and legislation.gov.uk.
How we handle it
How a Category 3 box moves
The haulage itself is ordinary container work. What is different is the checking either side of it.
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Release and border checks
Animal by-products from outside the EU are pre-notified on IPAFFS by the importer or its agent, at least one working day before arrival. The consignment must not leave the border control post until inspectors have completed and validated its CHED, so we book the collection against the release, not the arrival.
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The paperwork
The load moves with its commercial document or health certificate, which states the material, its category, the quantity, where it came from, where it is going and who is carrying it. We check it matches the booking.
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On the road
The box goes from the quay to the premises named on the document, identified as Category 3. It is not opened on the way and never shares a load with another category.
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Delivery and the record
Delivered to the premises on the document. Where the load travels on a commercial document, the receiver keeps the original and we keep the carrier’s copy for at least two years, as the rules require.
What we need from you
What to send with a Category 3 booking
The product description decides whether this is work our registration covers, so we need it at quote stage. Category 3 animal feed in a shipping container, quay to premises, is what we are registered for.
Some materials bring more rules. Restricted animal proteins also fall under the TSE regulations, which need a separate registration. Send the description and we confirm before we quote whether we can take it.
The same goes for waste. We hold an upper tier waste carrier and dealer registration with the Environment Agency, which allows us to carry other people’s waste. If a load is being moved as waste rather than as cargo, say so, because the rules that apply change with it.
Send with the request
- Product description and its category
- Commercial document or health certificate details
- Container number and shipping line
- Release and border check position
- Delivery premises and postcode
- Gross weight, if the box is heavy
Ports
Category 3 collections from six ports
The registration is ours, not the port’s, so it comes with us to all six. For a consignment from outside the EU, the port of entry must have a border control post for that commodity, which is settled on the import side.
Felixstowe
Our home port. The yard at Woolpit is about 35 miles from the gate.
20ft, 40ft, high cube, reefer, overweight
Container haulage from FelixstoweLondon Gateway
Deep-water Thames terminal, planned alongside Tilbury and Purfleet.
20ft, 40ft, high cube, reefer, overweight
Container haulage from London GatewayTilbury
Port of London container work, on the same Thames runs.
20ft, 40ft, high cube, overweight
Container haulage from TilburyPurfleet
Thames terminal collections, planned with London Gateway and Tilbury.
20ft, 40ft, high cube
Container haulage from PurfleetSouthampton
South coast deep-sea boxes, delivered inland across the UK.
20ft, 40ft, high cube, reefer, overweight
Container haulage from SouthamptonLiverpool
North west collections, including the Liverpool2 deep-water berths.
20ft, 40ft, high cube, overweight
Container haulage from Liverpool
Licences and cover
The registrations behind a Category 3 load
The APHA registration this work needs, the waste registration that sits beside it, and the licence and cover behind every load. The waste registration can be checked on the Environment Agency public register.
- Operator licence
- OF2023521
- 40 vehicles and 40 trailers, on the DVSA public register.
- Freight liability
- £6,500 per tonne
- Under RHA 2024 conditions, five times the RHA standard of £1,300. Subcontracted loads carry the same limit. Up to £10,000 per tonne by arrangement for high value freight.
- Waste carrier and dealer
- CBDU471791
- Environment Agency, upper tier.
- Animal by-products, Category 3
- U1433815/TRANS
- APHA registration to carry animal feed in shipping containers, quay to premises.
Questions
Animal feed container haulage, answered
Why does the haulier need an APHA registration?
Because the rules require it. Anyone transporting animal by-products must register with APHA, with narrow exceptions such as livestock keepers moving the carcasses of their own animals. Ours is U1433815/TRANS, for animal feed in shipping containers, quay to premises.
Can a subcontractor carry our Category 3 load?
Only one that is registered with APHA itself. That is APHA’s rule: a registered transporter that uses a subcontractor needs the subcontractor registered before it hauls animal by-products. We plan Category 3 work on that basis.
What paperwork travels with the container?
A commercial document, or a health certificate where the rules call for one. The commercial document is produced in at least three copies: the original travels with the load to the receiver, the producer keeps one and the carrier keeps the other. Records are kept for at least two years.
Does the container have to be labelled?
Yes. Category 3 material must be identified with its category and the words ‘not for human consumption’, on the packaging, the container or the vehicle. If the labelling or the paperwork does not match the load, we raise it with you before the box moves.
Can you take processed animal protein?
Tell us exactly what the product is first. Restricted animal proteins also fall under the TSE regulations, which need a registration of their own, separate from the animal by-products one, and APHA’s guidance says animal protein may only move in a vehicle designed for that purpose alone. We confirm whether we can take it before we quote.
What is the waste carrier registration for?
Carrying other people’s waste as a business. It is an upper tier registration with the Environment Agency, CBDU471791, and a separate regime from animal by-products. It matters when a load is being moved as waste rather than as cargo.
Further reading
Animal feed and by-products, in more depth
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Category 3 feed landing at a UK port?
Send the product, the port and the delivery postcode. We confirm our registration covers it and price it the same working day.