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Understanding container weight misdeclaration

Shipping and Freight Resource

This plate has several key details including allowed maximum gross weight as per below example. Using the above plate as an example, a container that has been loaded more than the allowed weight – in this case, 32,500 kgs including the tare weight of the container, will be considered as OVERWEIGHT. Few examples below.

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

Research indicates that up to 75% of firms report positive impacts from outsourcing to logistics service providers (Langley J, Capgemini 2007). For example, companies that have their own in-house vehicle fleet often struggle to deliver products on time. But what of the balance?

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

I figured, we pepper in some tips on transportation management, but if we also offer value to manufacturers, they would turn to us as the experts. Unfortunately, the passion began to fall through when the oldest millennials entered the workforce in 2007 and saw a huge economic collapse in 2008. Economic Instability.

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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

Shipping and Freight Resource

The examples are Kriewald , Morgan , Oppau , Tessenderlo , and Traskwood. ti explosion : A truck carrying 20 tonnes of ammonium nitrate tipped over on the European road E85 near Mih?ile?ti Date:September 10, 2007. The explosion, which could be heard at a distance of several kilometres caused a crater five metres deep.

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Current State of the Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

Since 2007, the Panama Canal has been under construction to allow larger ships to pass through the gates, which will bring a huge shift in the amount of ocean freight being delivered to both sides of the country, asserts JOC.com Staff. Expansion of the Panama Canal Will Increase Incoming Ocean Freight.

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Uberisation of Logistics – Are You Too Late?

Logistics Bureau

Even tipping is handled electronically. For example, before Uber started in 2009, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk system was already functioning in 2007. Credit card and PayPal payments are possible, but in any case they are made through the customer’s Uber account. No cash passes between the customer and the Uber provider.

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Winning strategies for distributors and manufacturers during an economic downturn

EazyStock

What the last recession taught us An article from McKinsey & Company (2022) analyzed the performance of about 40 publicly traded distribution companies during the 2007-2009 recession. 4 Tips for stock-keeping companies during an economic downturn 1. 4 Tips for stock-keeping companies during an economic downturn 1.