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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. Considering the Entire Supply Chain.

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Air Shipment Visibility Enhanced by Solution

Logistics Business Magazine

Descartes Systems Group has announced that Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics division of Etihad Airways, has further automated air shipment cargo processes using Descartes’ next generation Internet of Things (IoT) Bluetooth® Low Energy solution, integrated with Jettainer’s unit load device (ULD) management services.

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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. During 2020, Swissport will rig its cargo warehouses with Bluetooth readers supplied by Unilode and Descartes. “Our

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DHL Global Forwarding Combats Covid-19 with Charter Flights and Trains

Airfreight Logistics

For example, for the past week, we have been transporting around 100,000 COVID test tubes a day from China to Germany and the Czech Republic for a customer specializing in medical accessories. . Furthermore, a special unit load device cover designed to control temperature during transport saved valuable time.

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The 4 major drawbacks of warehouse design

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

I believe that warehouses are a critical necessity in the global chain to satisfy customers and therefore a poorly designed warehouse design can be an essential element in having a logistics problem in a Company. Example; (The internal flows of your warehouse may vary as well as the type of unit load. . Filed under:

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50% Spike in Demand for Retail Storage, says Shelving Specialist

Logistics Business Magazine

We expect this to continue throughout 2021 with the after effects of Brexit contributing to this, as businesses look at stockpiling goods to mitigate import delays and supply chain issues.”. Revenues are up by over 50% and our order book is still growing.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] Australian Army unit load ammunition containers in a warehouse ready for delivery to artillery soldiers for the safe transport and storage of projectiles in the field. 1] Beaumont, D.,