Air Freight - Helicopter Engines - Dangerous Goods ?

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Air Freight - Helicopter Engines - Dangerous Goods ?

Hi everyone

I'm looking at air freighting a couple of heli engines from Jakarta to the USA and the UK

The engine going to the UK is a factory overhaul still in packing and dessicant bags

The second engine to the US was recovered from a parted out heli

Both engines have been drained of oil for shipment and haven't flown for 8 to 15 yrs

Now the freight forwarder wants to charge me dangerous goods rates due to the risk of residual oil in the engines

I checked the material data sheets for typical aircraft turbine oil and it says

"Not dangerous for transport under ADR/RID, IMO and IATA/ICAO regulations"

So does this guy have a valid point or his he pulling my chain to pocket the difference between the normal rate and dangerous goods rate ? (this is Indonesia after all ... )

I haven't run across this before as i usually send engines by sea freight and have never had a problem