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Transporting Perishable Goods? Some Important Factors to Consider.

Blue Grace Logistics

Transporting perishable goods and fresh produce is fraught with higher risks than regular dry cargo. Perishable goods need a specialized mode of transportation, refrigerated trailers, or reefers. What important factors should shippers keep in mind while transporting fresh produce? The best method and transport mode to ship it.

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Intelligent Automation, the Future of Supply Chain. Is the Logistics Industry Ready?

Blue Grace Logistics

Better planning: Intelligent automation can integrate and streamline transportation planning, route planning, warehouse network, and inventory planning. This can improve multimodal transportation planning and also keep the customers updated with a more accurate expected time of delivery.

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Port of Dunkirk Makes Progress with Ambitious Expansion Plan

Logistics Business Magazine

The Port of Dunkirk has reiterated its commitment to the ambitious CAP 2020 project, following positive feedback to a public consultation exercise. The port is a major player in goods transport and the economy of the Hauts-de-France region. A public consultation was held from 19 September to 22 December 2017 in which 78.5%

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Multimodal Impact on Sustainability

Logistics Business Magazine

More so if the opted shipment network is multimodal. Multimodal transit, by definition, involves optimized usage of every possible mode of transportation to reduce overall shipping costs and also ensure a large quantity of product movement.