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Our New Freight Rate Calculator!
With July’s freight rate increases hitting hard on imports from China, it might be time to rethink your freight forwarding strategy. This is where we come in.
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Congratulations to Richard Callcut and Ruky Wickremasinghe who played in the Newdigate C.C. vs. Lashings World XI cricket match earlier this month.
Read MoreBespoke Control Documents
The Issue A number of our clients were faced with an increasing overhead of time just extracting basic status information from freight documentation and looked to us to devise a simple and transparent way to gather key information.
Read MoreStock Control and Systems Reporting
The Issue With a growing list of clients utilizing Seaspace’s pick and pack fulfillment facility the need for an accurate stock control, order fulfillment and data analysis system also grew. We found that “off the shelf” solutions were inadequate in providing the high level of service back-up we wanted to achieve.
Read MoreStandardising Export Packaging
The Issue Trading in a wide variety of consumer goods and supplying wholesale to a number of UK retail high-street outlets gave our client one particular headache. The UK retailers all insisted that deliveries to their distribution centres be made on standard pallets according to rigorous regulations.
Read MoreConsignment Stocking
The Issue Our clients, an internationally renowned aerospace engineering company, faced a dilemma. Their production plants require a regular & reliable provision of large scale metal forgings. However, production demands can sometimes peak at very short notice and their US suppliers struggled to accommodate this.
Read MoreFiery start to The Year of the Dragon!
Shipping Lines serving the Asia to Europe routes have started the Chinese New Year breathing fire and brimstone. Having imposed some modest increases to freight rates prior to the CNY holiday, they’re trying to keep the momentum going post CNY with some red-hot increases already announced for March and beyond.
Read MoreThe Shipping Lines’ New Year Resolution
The Shipping Lines serving the Asia to Europe routes have already decided on their New Years Resolution; to reduce capacity, improve their margins and increase rates. Like the resolutions that we all make every January 1st, only time will tell if they actually stick to them!
Read MoreThere’s no such thing as a free lunch!
Very little in life is free – except this advice. Don’t be fooled by offers and inducements from suppliers to ship your order for free. If they don’t simply hide freight costs in the value of the product you’re buying from them, there’s an even craftier trick.
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