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The Beginner’s Guide to Bill of Lading Documents

ShipLilly

While you don’t want to forget any of those documents (no matter how numerous or tedious they may be), there’s one you definitely want to become familiar with: the bill of lading. A bill of lading is one of the most common – and important – documents in the shipping and logistics industry. What’s on a Bill of Lading?

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Documents for Freight Shipping: A Definitive Guide

Freightera

Shipping documents can make an existentialist out of anyone pretty quickly, which is why we’ve compiled a list of documents that you might need, depending on your mode of shipping (air, ocean, or road). Common shipping documents: Bill of Lading. Shipping labels are not a standalone document, but an addition to the BOL.

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How Air Freight Ships Temperature-Controlled Goods

20Cube Logistics

A wide variety of cargo is moved both domestically and internationally by air. Different types of cargo have specific requirements for safe storage, transport, and handling. A unit load device (ULD) is a metal cargo container designed for transporting perishable goods via air. Supervision during loading and unloading cargo.

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What is ISPS and who has to pay it?

Globalior

This is an important part of maritime laws and regulations that safeguard the safety of ocean faring vessels, sea ports, seamen, crew and cargo. ISPS stands for International Ship and Port facility Security code. ISPS code regulations were introduced by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on the 1st of July 2004.

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Shipping your first container.?? Here are some tips to help you

Shipping and Freight Resource

Route to market means identifying what is the best means to get your cargo to a specific market and what is most beneficial for your product. Ensure that all your commercial documentation is aligned with these terms of sale and reflects the correct information so as to avoid any delays at export stage or at import stage.

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Difference between Maritime, Shipping, Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain

Shipping and Freight Resource

In this article I unpack the difference between Maritime, Shipping, Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain and how it is all connected, starting with some simple definitions of these terms. Shipping Business = the act of carriage of cargo from point A to point using the ships which falls under the Maritime industry. An estimated 89.5%

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DHL Express expands Johor Gateway facility

Logistics Business Magazine

This offers improved shipment processing for the more than 1,800 parcels and documents bound for and coming from the facility’s busiest trade lanes, namely the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, China, and Japan.

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