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3PL Basics: The 11 Transportation Services with Jeremy Thone

The Logistics of Logistics

To provide maximum trading flexibility they are usually geared and modern examples are fitted for the carriage of containers and grains. Breakbulk cargo or general cargo is a term that covers a great variety of goods that must be loaded individually, and not in intermodal containers nor in bulk as with oil or grain.

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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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Swissport Equips Cargo Warehouses with Bluetooth Sensors Kicking off Global ULD Tracking

Airfreight Logistics

Swissport will work with Unilode and Descartes to track and monitor Unit Load Devices (ULD) using Bluetooth technology at its cargo warehouses. Another such example are self-service cargo kiosks which enable truck-drivers to skip counter queues and manual paperwork processing.

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When the water bottle can also be drunk

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

In one part of the class, we talked about water packaging, so I remembered one that was presented as an ideation example in a startup program I took two years ago. Last week we talked about packaging and how supermarkets adjust their logistics to the packaging to satisfy customer expectations. Ooho edible water bottle | Object in Focus.

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How Air Freight Ships Temperature-Controlled Goods

20Cube Logistics

Examples of common perishable goods include fresh meat, frozen food, pharmaceutical drugs, and flowers. Unit Load Devices: The Solution for Transporting Perishable Goods. A unit load device (ULD) is a metal cargo container designed for transporting perishable goods via air. What are Temperature-Controlled Goods?

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DHL Global Forwarding Combats Covid-19 with Charter Flights and Trains

Airfreight Logistics

For example, for the past week, we have been transporting around 100,000 COVID test tubes a day from China to Germany and the Czech Republic for a customer specializing in medical accessories. Furthermore, a special unit load device cover designed to control temperature during transport saved valuable time.

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ASRS Warehouse Systems: Everything You Need to Know

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There are two main types of ASRS systems: Unit-load. Unit-Load ASRS. Unit-load ASRS systems are designed to handle large and heavy pallets and cases, with weights ranging from 1,000 to 5,500 lbs. Unit-load ASRS systems handle heavy loads like pallets. Mini-Load ASRS.