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Hazmat Products Shipping Tutorial for Ecommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

Is your ecommerce merchandise considered hazardous materials? What do you, as an ecommerce business owner, need to know about shipping hazmat products? As the owner of the merchandise, your ecommerce business is responsible for making sure that all “pre-transportation” functions are carried out in accordance with 49 CFR regulations.

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Supply Chain Quality: A Driver for Digital Transformation

Talking Logistics

The cost of poor quality is so closely related to supplier quality and compliance that manufacturers must give the proper attention and resources to the optimization of their upstream partnerships. Traceability & Trade Compliance. The only way to take control of your future is to double down on quality.

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Technology changing last-mile delivery sector

Logistics Business Magazine

With many last-mile delivery firms heavily relying on self-employed drivers to get parcels out to individuals, this created an ongoing workforce issue which is only being exacerbated by the steady rise in ecommerce.

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Container Freight Costs and Forecasting: Intrinsically Linked & Frustratingly Challenging

Logistics Bureau

The situation was—and continues to be—exacerbated by a reduction in turnaround speed in ports and terminals due to the need for compliance with social distancing and movement restrictions. The outcome was a severe global container shortage. The outcome was a severe global container shortage.

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Brexit: Your Customs Guide

Logistics Business Magazine

In particular, with consumer behaviour shifting significantly during the pandemic, it is this inexperience that will mean many smaller businesses that rely on ecommerce trading with the EU are likely to get caught out. Compliance complexity. File the right documentation to ensure no delays at the border?

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Robotics pilot doubles productivity at Geodis’ Indianapolis warehouse

247 Customs Broker

Geodis is planning to extend the collaboration with Locus Robotics in more warehouses with their retail and ecommerce customers. The company’s web portal, Neptune, allows real-time co-ordination of transport activity, reporting and analysis of crucial performance indicators, and document archiving. Compliance to U.S.

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Trade Wars Put U.S. Small Business on the Front Line

Supply Chain Brain

It requires substantially less documentation and processing cost to ship a $700 product from Canada to the U.S. This not very neighborly practice effectively cuts smaller ecommerce retailers out of competition in the Canadian market. than is required to ship a $7 product from the U.S. and are self-inflicted.