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FreightHub stays on course – our crew successfully steers our customers digitally through the corona crisis

Forto

Freight forwarding companies face the big challenge of keeping the consequences as minimal as possible. We don’t have a large server room and there are no paper documents in circulation. Each of our employees can access all data from anywhere, including home. Our work is completely cloud-based thanks to GoogleCloud.

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FreightHub stays on course – our crew successfully steers our customers digitally through the corona crisis

Forto

Freight forwarding companies face the big challenge of keeping the consequences as minimal as possible. We don’t have a large server room and there are no paper documents in circulation. Each of our employees can access all data from anywhere, including home. Our work is completely cloud-based thanks to GoogleCloud.

Course 52
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How Technology is Changing Ocean Shipping

Now, That's Logistics

“First, there are many parties involved in international trade,” including shippers, consignees, freight forwarders, and customs house brokers. When it comes to the exchange of information, it is of course problematic.”. That said, inherent within digital transformation is of course the transformative process itself.

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

Globalior

Of course in transit, the vessel may stop over at various ports en route to destination. During transshipment, certain activities have to take place in the port as containers are moved from one vessel to another, including the updating of transportation documents (will not be covered in this article). Data collection.

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Ethics in Supply Chain Management

Globalior

Most compliance managers in supply chain functions would readily agree that they hold ethical practices in high regard and likewise hold a firm moral high ground when making decisions in the course of their work. As a result, some supply chains have extensive day to day interactions with multiple brokers, freight forwarders and other vendors.

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CDS is here – and this time, it’s for real

Logistics Business Magazine

From the latest data requirements and processes, to the sheer scale of the challenge associated with new systems and software; the move from CHIEF to CDS is far from straightforward. CDS is a dramatic shift away from the previous ways of working in CHIEF, right from the way the customs declaration looks, to the new data needed.

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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.