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How Air Freight Ships Temperature-Controlled Goods

20Cube Logistics

Examples of common perishable goods include fresh meat, frozen food, pharmaceutical drugs, and flowers. 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. What are Temperature-Controlled Goods?

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Swissport Equips Cargo Warehouses with Bluetooth Sensors Kicking off Global ULD Tracking

Airfreight Logistics

Swissport will work with Unilode and Descartes to track and monitor Unit Load Devices (ULD) using Bluetooth technology at its cargo warehouses. Geolocation of ULD enables real-time tracking and inventory control, enabling airlines and freight companies to plan the distribution of their ULD fleets more efficiently and cost effectively.

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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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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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What is a Conveyor? A Guide to Streamlining Operations

Conger

These systems are vital across various industries, including manufacturing, distribution, and food processing. Available in various designs, with flat rollers being the most common, they are tailored to meet specific needs like optimizing load distribution over larger spans.

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ASRS Warehouse Systems: Everything You Need to Know

Conger

Before ASRS systems were developed, companies had to manually handle all aspects of warehousing and distribution. There are two main types of ASRS systems: Unit-load. Unit-Load ASRS. Unit-load ASRS systems are designed to handle large and heavy pallets and cases, with weights ranging from 1,000 to 5,500 lbs.

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Palletization: Everything You Need to Know

Conger

Palletization is a logistical process that involves placing goods on top of a pallet to secure and consolidate the load and ease its handling during transportation, storage, handling and distribution. For example, while the pallet wrapping is automatically done, building the pallet unit load is done manually by one or two workers.