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From Taiwan to the U.S.—Duty-free

3PL Insights

About half of the 132 containers filled with tires, were en route from Taiwan, headed to the East and West coast ports. “We We needed to find a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) warehouse, quickly.”. Upon arrival at the warehouse, the containers were unloaded, inspected for damage, and inventoried by SKU and documentation.

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My Nightmare Shipment

The Logistics of Logistics

Finally a six months after our initial meeting, I got a call from Marty asking us to help him with a shipment from Taiwan. We wouldn’t be responsible for the sea freight or clearing customs, but we would pick up two pallets from a warehouse in California and deliver them to Chicago. I was really pumped!

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. For instance, the hangover from the pandemic, which has not yet permitted ocean freight from China to return to anything like normal service, is a problem that continued COVID outbreaks and associated port closures are exacerbating. Warehouse Capacity Under Pressure.