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How Air Freight Ships Temperature-Controlled Goods

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Unit Load Devices: The Solution for Transporting Perishable Goods. A unit load device (ULD) is a metal cargo container designed for transporting perishable goods via air. We handle the warehousing, distribution, shipping and customs clearance for them. They lock into place aboard the aircraft to keep goods secure.

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How Automated Guided Vehicles Transform Material Handling

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Boosting Operational Efficiency AGVs excel in efficiency, outperforming even the most experienced workers by autonomously transporting materials across distribution centers or delivering parts directly to manufacturing assembly lines. This evaluation helps you choose an AGV system that meets your operational demands.

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How Automated Guided Vehicles Transform Material Handling

Conger

Boosting Operational Efficiency AGVs excel in efficiency, outperforming even the most experienced workers by autonomously transporting materials across distribution centers or delivering parts directly to manufacturing assembly lines. This evaluation helps you choose an AGV system that meets your operational demands.

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Importance of declaring the correct cargo weight

Shipping and Freight Resource

The chief officer of the ship will have a problem to try and adjust the stability because according to his calculations the ship should be stable when the cargo is planned and loaded a certain way based on the weight declarations, but in reality, because of the misdeclared weights, he is not able to get the stability right.

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Understanding container weight misdeclaration

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The penalty fee is applicable if there is a misdeclaration of cargo weight details at the time of submission of booking submission and if the weight deviates +/- 3 tons/TEU from the weight on the final Bill of Lading Instruction details and Verified Gross Mass (VGM) documentation. damage to containers or loss of containers overboard.

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An Introduction to Air Freight: All Important Basics for Transporting Goods by Air

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Such standard air freight is usually loaded below the deck of a passenger aircraft, why it is also called a belly flight. Smaller shipments, which are more often the case, are transported on standardized ULD ( Unit Load Device ) containers — larger items on ULD pallets. How Can Duration and Costs be Calculated?

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