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Plastic Pallets for Export and International Shipping!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The requirements for plastic pallets for international shipping are quite different from domestic shipping. Hence, these standards affect the quality of the export shipping pallets. The ISPM-15 requires all wooden pallets, which are shipped internationally, to meet certain requirements, standards, and specifications.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa. The Suzaka, a 750 gross-ton vessel, was powered by Orca AI, whose software helped the ship avoid hundreds of collisions autonomously. This shift in strategy has been referred to as “ friend-shoring.”

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates.

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Cold Chain – Why Is It Growing So Fast?

The Logistics of Logistics

Refrigerated storage refers to the storing of goods in a reduced temperature atmosphere. Other refrigerated transportation modes include airplanes, ships and railcars. This proportion will soon change as the cold chain companies seize new opportunities in Asia, Latin American and Africa. Packaging is another key component.

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Cold Chain – Why Is It Growing So Fast?

The Logistics of Logistics

Refrigerated storage refers to the storing of goods in a reduced temperature atmosphere. Other refrigerated transportation modes include airplanes, ships and railcars. This proportion will soon change as the cold chain companies seize new opportunities in Asia, Latin American and Africa. Packaging is another key component.

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Cold Chain – Why Is It Growing So Fast?

The Logistics of Logistics

Refrigerated storage refers to the storing of goods in a reduced temperature atmosphere. Other refrigerated transportation modes include airplanes, ships and railcars. This proportion will soon change as the cold chain companies seize new opportunities in Asia, Latin American and Africa. Packaging is another key component.

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Unleashed SME Supply Chain Resilience Roundtable: Improving Cash Flow in a Manufacturing Business

Unleashed

In South Africa, there are a lot of third-party fulfilment companies , so costs were going up with them.” They don’t want to be holding the stock; they want to ship it all once.” What we’ve managed to do is get them to ship [the call-off stock] out,” he explains. The suppliers] have changed their business model.