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From Freight Quotes to LTL Shipping: Ensuring Data Accuracy from the Start

GoShip Blog

Every successful shipment hinges on the precision of the initial data provided. In the world of LTL shipping, where shipments often involve multiple carriers and touchpoints, the accuracy of the initial data becomes even more crucial. This co-sharing demands precise data from the get-go.

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The importance of declaring correct cargo details and consequences of cargo misdeclaration

Shipping and Freight Resource

Incorrect cargo details and/or misdeclaration of cargo and its details has been the bane of many shipping lines over the years. The consequences of cargo and weight misdeclaration were so severe that the IMO had to implement SOLAS VGM regulations. For over two years now TT Club has been promoting its Cargo Integrity campaign.

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Blockchain technology as a transformational force

Logistics Business Magazine

Ensuring on-time deliveries requires keeping on top of vast amounts of documentation, inventory management and route optimisation. In an increasingly digitalised world, as data sets become bigger, companies also face new threats such as data leakage, privacy concerns, fraud and the need to spot counterfeit goods fast.

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What happens when a container needs to be changed in a transshipment port?

Globalior

Sometimes containerized cargo has to undergo transshipment and for various reasons may need to be moved between containers. Of course in transit, the vessel may stop over at various ports en route to destination. Data collection. Data on transshipment costs per unit cargo is also essential. Loading and offloading.

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How Technology is Changing Ocean Shipping

Now, That's Logistics

When it comes to the exchange of information, it is of course problematic.”. Blame the high volume of required documents—invoices, bills of lading, letters of credit, and inspection certificates, etc.—with Shipping marketplaces can aggregate capacity supply and demand, as well as standardize and disseminate market data,” it says. “As

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Product Review : CenterSource Platform

Shipping and Freight Resource

As timber is usually shipped in large volumes, there has to be an extremely close coordination between the various parties from the live-loading of the cargo into the container, the carriers, the entities fumigating the containers, and the documentation team that prepares all the pre-shipment and shipment documentation.

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5 Tips for Shipping Dangerous Goods

Forto

Before we go into details on how to ship hazardous materials, one needs to understand that different types of cargo require different measures for transportation. If apparel shipping is on the far left end of the spectrum of cargo-sensitivity, in terms of ease-of-care, hazardous and dangerous goods shipping are on the far right end.

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