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MTS Logistics Teaches and Trains the Young Generation to Make a Difference for the World’s Oceans and Environment

MTS Logistics

MTS Logistics recently held an educational environmental training and cleanup event on the beach in Izmir, Turkey. Our first aim was to include more children into our Clean Oceans Project and training this year as we are passing the torch to Gen Z and Millennials, the caretakers of our future.

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Why Containerised Freight Shipping is Daunting for SMEs

Logistics Bureau

However, freight shipping is the one activity that presents significant barriers to overseas-market entry, as you may have discovered if your business is starting to look across international borders for its next step in expansion. The maritime shipping leg the country of export to the country of import.

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The importance of declaring correct cargo details and consequences of cargo misdeclaration

Shipping and Freight Resource

However there are still several incidents of such cargo misdeclaration including hazardous goods which have caused several maritime disasters. At the tip of the iceberg, for example, there are weekly reports of unitised fires on board ships, and historic average experience of a major ship fire every 60 days has been challenged in 2019.

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Strategic risks and the vulnerability of the munitions supply-chain

Logistics in War

The military customer at the end of this transaction requires ammunition for training, day-to-day operations, and during a crisis, combat load for missions. These two examples highlight the dependency on just one facility as the main source for a military-specific product. Transportation.

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Death in Confined Spaces: Hidden Danger

Logistics Business Magazine

A lack of understanding of the danger present may have fatal consequences. This may arise from rusting of the ship’s structure or metal cargoes, oxidation of cargoes such as coal or the decomposition of biodegradable cargoes, for example fish meal, logs, bark, or wood pellets. Any rescue operations are therefore time critical.

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Pitfalls of digitalisation in shipping and freight

Shipping and Freight Resource

Some examples and benefits of digitalisation in shipping are. Here is a real life example. For example, seafood products are best shipped at -20°C (-4°F) or lower. Nail Polish : day to day product present in almost all households and should be harmless for shipment. These are shipping in Reefer Containers.

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Swinging into action – reflections on East Timor by a logistics Unit Commander Part Three

Logistics in War

There were many issues that arose to make life difficult, the majority of which I put down to a lack of realistic training for this type of unit [1] and Clausewitzian organizational friction. Ultimately we stayed put but I didn’t win any friends in the Maritime Component. An additional example was the Terminal Troop.