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Monthly Archives: June 2020

5 Ways to Minimise Freight Delays and Avoid Unhappy Clients

Опубликовано: June 30, 2020 в 6:57 am

Категории: Blog

5 Ways to Minimise Freight Delays and Avoid Unhappy Clients

5-minute read

Let’s quickly recap what you have experienced! In December 2019, doctors in Wuhan, China, began to see patients with unusual and worrying symptoms.

How Retailers Will Operate After COVID-19 (New Behaviours)

Опубликовано: June 30, 2020 в 12:12 am

Категории: Blog

_How Retailers Will Operate After COVID-19 (New Behaviours)

6-minute read

The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is forcing stores to close across the globe. How should traditional retailers change in this new environment and with new consumer expectations and behavior?

Who Will Pay Penalties for Misdeclaring Cargo Weight (VGM)

Опубликовано: June 25, 2020 в 4:16 am

Категории: Blog

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5-minute read

Four years after the introduction of VGM (verified gross mass) rules to deal with the dangerous problem of mis-declared containers, one could be forgiven for thinking the issue of overweight boxes had been eradicated.

Fascinating Facts about How Long-Haul Trucking Works

Опубликовано: June 21, 2020 в 8:35 am

Категории: Blog

How Long-Haul Trucking Works

1-minute read (13-minute watch)

Trucks transport 73% of the USA’s freight. However, in New Zealand they handle 92% of cargo, with 6% going by rail and 2% on coastal shipping.

Why Importers & Exporters Don’t Use Shipper Owned Containers

Опубликовано: June 24, 2020 в 7:50 am

Категории: Blog

Why Importers & Exporters Don’t Use Shipper Owned Containers

2-minute read

The current market circumstances dictate New Zealand companies are not able to receive the full advantage of shipper-owned containers (SOCs).

Recently published by Hamburg-based Container xChange, the report determined that most freight-forwarders are failing to capitalise on the potential opportunities offered by SOCs.

World’s Largest Vertical Garden Goes up at Ports of Auckland

Опубликовано: June 17, 2020 в 7:11 am

Категории: Blog

How to Get The Best Cargo Insurance (World’s Largest Vertical Garden Goes up at Ports of Auckland

2-minute read (3-minute watch)

Ports of Auckland has installed the world’s largest soil-based vertical garden on its new car-handling building on Auckland’s waterfront.

Dispute in Container Hire (Detention) fees – Is It Fair?

Опубликовано: June 23, 2020 в 9:19 am

Категории: Blog

Dispute in Container Hire (Detention) fees – Is It Fair

4-minute read

The issues of container detention (empty hire) charges is an ongoing sore point which affects the relationship between shipping lines, importers, customs agents and freight forwarders, and it has raised its head again.

How COVID19 Affects Your Sea Freight Prices (Chart Supplied)

Опубликовано: June 15, 2020 в 4:22 pm

Категории: Blog

How COVID19 Affects Your Sea Freight Prices (Chart Supplied)

5-minute read

The industry has navigated the crisis with some skill, but pressure to cut prices is growing.

For a container shipping industry whose fortunes depend on ever greater globalisation, the coronavirus pandemic appears an intimidating enemy.

Ocean Shipping Delays as Pandemic Hits Importers & Exporters

Опубликовано: June 15, 2020 в 7:39 am

Категории: Blog

Ocean Shipping Delays as Pandemic Hits Importers & Exporters_1

4-minute read

The $1 trillion container shipping industry is in a slowdown. Literally.

Some shipping lines, whose retail customers are being hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, are reducing sailing speeds and taking longer routes around Africa, avoiding Suez canal passage fees, according to the companies and ship-tracking specialists.

Why Your Sea Freight is Getting Slower & Air Prices Going Up

Опубликовано: June 10, 2020 в 9:06 am

Категории: Blog

Why Your Sea Freight is Getting Slower & Air Prices Going Up

1-minute read (2-minute watch)

Shipping lines start sailing at reduced speed — a tactic that absorbs capacity since more vessels are required to provide the same frequency of service. How does it affect you?

Why You Are Not Getting Your Goods via NZ Post

Опубликовано: June 9, 2020 в 9:04 am

Категории: Blog

Why You Are Not Getting Your Goods via NZ Post

2-minute read

New Zealand Post has apologised for the delivery delays many Kiwis have experienced amid Covid-19, explaining why so many packages have taken so long to reach their new homes.

With courier drivers overloaded, orders that are usually delivered overnight are often taking at least two days, and in many cases sometimes even longer.

What’s Happening with the Auckland Airport Runway

Опубликовано: June 9, 2020 в 8:36 am

Категории: Blog

What’s Happening with the Auckland Airport Runway

2-minute read

Work on Auckland Airport’s runway has begun as part of a $26 million project to replace pavement in the main touchdown zone.

Jet-blast fences were be transported onto the runway and 80 workers started work to shorten the airport’s runway by 1.1km in order to replace 280 concrete slabs at the eastern end.

Auckland Airport Stats Show How Covid-19 Changed NZ Imports

Опубликовано: June 9, 2020 в 7:17 am

Категории: Blog

Auckland Airport Stats Show How Covid-19 Changed NZ Imports

3-minute read

Airfreight through Auckland Airport and around the world plunged in April but imports of some products to this country soared, including goggles, disinfectants and toilet cleaner.

As air travel started grinding to a near-halt, equipment to combat Covid-19 took up limited air cargo space, as footwear, clothing and makeup imports plunged.

Biosecurity for Air Transport (Near-Term Future of Aviation)

Опубликовано: June 3, 2020 в 10:13 am

Категории: Blog

Biosecurity for Air Transport (Near-Term Future of Aviation)

9-minute read

Almost every challenge in aviation requires a team effort to solve it. Today we face the biggest challenge in commercial aviation’s history: restarting an industry that largely has ceased to operate across borders, while ensuring that it is not a meaningful vector for the spread of COVID-19.

New Rules for Importing Tobacco Products to NZ

Опубликовано: June 3, 2020 в 8:55 am

Категории: Blog

New Rules for Importing Tobacco Products to NZ

6-minute read

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What are the new rules for importing tobacco products, tobacco leaf and refuse?

From 1 July 2020, tobacco products, tobacco leaf and refuse will become prohibited imports and you will be required to have a permit to import these products. Permits will be approved and issued by the New Zealand Customs Service.