Anyone has the knowledge or experience of the following issues?
1. Will airline company honor my value declaration?
2. In case of lost luggage or equipment damaged, what can I do?
3. Travel to foreign country, what should I do at custom?
This is an excellent question, and you open a can of worms.
To avoid get into trouble at Custom, U can try to do “ATA Carnet”.
Use Courier is the safest way to avoid lost equipment at last minutes and ruin the ARS operations.
If you want to check in the luggage and want to get lost luggage protection. My advice is ensuring the equipment by your company policy NOT depends on airline company to pay you fairly. You have to check the airline company value declaration policy to determine the maximum value can be covered and airline company will charge very high rate for high value declaration.
For example: Hawaiian Airline value declaration cap at USD $20 per KG and charge 1% over $20 per KG value declaration.up to maximum declaration of USD$25,000 per pessanger.
http://hawaiianair.com/flightinfo/icoc/carriage_rule.asp?cr=00125
JAL limited their liability to 17 SDR currency unit per KG and charge only 0.5% as excess value charges. Maximum declaration is USD$2,500 per pessanger.
http://www.jal.co.jp/en/carriage/index_c010.html