Searching for an international shipping and warehouse company can be tricky. Service offerings are confusing: some international shipping and warehouse companies offer cold storage, freight forwarding, pool distribution, cross docking, co-packaging and fulfillment, and the increasingly popular multi-modal transport. That all sounds great -- if you know what it means. If, like me, you’re just … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2008
Considering Wooden Shipping Crates Construction
Wooden shipping crates are everywhere. You can’t walk through a warehouse or across a loading dock without seeing one of these ubiquitous boxes, protecting and concealing everything from machinery to clothing, fine foods to industrial equipment. Yet have you ever thought about how they’re made? If you’ve ever pondered wooden shipping crates construction, perhaps you’ve imagined a very boring … [Read more...]
Three Things Your International Freight Shipping Company Wishes You Knew
Shipping freight internationally can be complex. It’s a mystifying process: your merchandise leaves your warehouse, only to disappear for an indefinite amount of time, to somehow mysteriously reappear at its destination. There’s reams of paperwork and an alphabet soup of abbreviations to navigate. Life could be easier for all parties, however, if there was a better understanding of what was … [Read more...]
