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How to Deal with Damaged Freight: Freight Damage Types

GoShip Blog

The course of action you need to take will ultimately depend on the type of damage that affects your freight shipments. For example, changes in climatic zones and moisture content result in container rain , leading to damaged freight. Claims are possible to win, especially when issues are documented and noted immediately.

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

Forto

We don’t have a large server room and there are no paper documents in circulation. It is also very easy to work together on transports and documents. Of course, this applies not only to the internal distribution of tasks. Our work is completely cloud-based thanks to GoogleCloud. How can logistics companies master them?

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

Forto

We don’t have a large server room and there are no paper documents in circulation. It is also very easy to work together on transports and documents. Of course, this applies not only to the internal distribution of tasks. Our work is completely cloud-based thanks to GoogleCloud. How can logistics companies master them?

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OSHA Forklift Trainer Requirements: The Ultimate Guide

Conger

Develop Your Operator Trainer Course Materials: Per OSHA , the program must include practical (hands-on) training to know whether or not the operator has the required experience. Examples include when the operator has been involved in an incident or near miss, been observed driving in an unsafe manner, or if workplace conditions change.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). The challenge, of course, is that nobody owns this material. Background TWI stands for Training Within Industry, a program developed during WWII by the U.S.

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Why Containerised Freight Shipping is Daunting for SMEs

Logistics Bureau

That’s a massive problem for SMEs, for example, that last year might have been paying $4,000 to $5,000 (USD) to ship a 40-foot container from Asia to North America, and now face rates of $20,000 and above. Documentation fees. A Multitude of Cost Components. Export fees. Challenge #3: The Complexities of Compliance.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Some try delving into deep learning or a crash course in generative AI (GenAI), but I don’t recommend starting there. Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Getting started with AI in supply chain might not start where you think.