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Why and how containers are secured
In today's globalized economy, containers play a crucial role in the transportation of goods across vast distances. Ensuring these containers ...
Effective management of damaged cargo and freight claims
Handling damaged cargo efficiently is crucial for any logistics operation. Properly managing freight claims can save your business time and ...
What is a Letter of Credit and how does it impact logistics?
What is a Letter of Credit and how does it impact logistics? Letters of Credit (LCs) are fundamental tools in ...
What is reverse logistics?
In today's fast-paced and dynamic business landscape, supply chain management plays a critical role in ensuring the smooth flow of ...
Warehouse handling equipment
In the below short logistics learning video (an extract from our course Introduction to warehousing), we present certain warehouse handling ...
What is Inventory Management?
Inventory management can be seen as a function which aims at ensuring the smooth sourcing, production and delivery of products ...
The evolution of container ships and their sizes
In this article, we will look the evolution of container ship since 1955 and at the largest container ships of ...
What is logistics?
Logistics can be defined as the detailed planning, organization, and implementation of a complex operation. In layman's terms and in ...
Logistics quiz
We see our logistics quizzes as an important learning tool, and the questions and corrections they contain provide learning opportunities ...
Customs Classification and harmonized codes
Customs Classification When trading goods internationally, you will need to customs clear your merchandise for export in the country of ...
Air freight – volumetric and dimensional weight
Volumetric weight and dimensional weight are used in the field of transportation, notably Air transport, to calculate transport rates.
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CMA CGM Brazil – Very Large Container Ship (VLCS) in action.
You can see below a video of the container ship CMA CGM Brazil, a container vessel from the Very Large ...
Container port animation
Today, 18% of the global ocean cargo is moved thanks to shipping containers, container vessels, and container ports or terminals ...
2020 world merchant fleet
Based on the publicly available UNCTAD data, the world merchant fleet was composed of over 95,000 vessels in 2020.
The total ...
The total ...