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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. Our documentation and communication were solid.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. As if to confirm the unlikeliness of compliance with the accord, Russian missiles struck the port of Odessa within hours of the document-signing ceremony. Warehouse Capacity Under Pressure. The nature of ecommerce, too, means companies make greater use of available warehouse capacity.

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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Wholesalers in 2019: Drop Those Bad Habits from 2018

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Highly developed nations such as South Korea and Taiwan may fill in the technology gap. You need to be able to juggle multiple currencies and generate documents in different languages. Spring Clean Your Warehouse. It’s too easy to overlook the place where your operations and warehouse staff work.