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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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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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AFKLMP Cargo introduces more sustainable transport

Logistics Business Magazine

An LHV can carry six unit load devices (ULDs) at a time, whereas a normal cargo carrying vehicle can only take four. Examples here include the development of electric truck combinations and the use of hydrogen as a sustainable fuel. The big advantage of using an LHV is the huge volume of cargo it can carry.

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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. Another such example are self-service cargo kiosks which enable truck-drivers to skip counter queues and manual paperwork processing.

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Product placement in supermarkets – or: „eye level is buy level“

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Doing the research for an Unit Load analysis for products in supermarkets for the logistics course, I came over a really interested, related topic: the product placement in supermarkets. For example, there is baked goods area, bathroom area or a sweets area. Sometimes it is, sometimes not.

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Express Cargo Sorting

Logistics Business Magazine

The import sort facility is adjacent to the airside apron at Stansted, with ULD (unit load device) air containers fed directly on to a castor floor. The system has the flexibility to connect to a range of different outfeeds, meaning parcels can be loaded into a number of different types of vehicles for onward connection.

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The 4 major drawbacks of warehouse design

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Example; (The internal flows of your warehouse may vary as well as the type of unit load. . What was considered optimum can stop being fast, so always take in to account the existence of a percentage of uncertainty in all the steps of the design.