Maritime Transportation And Shipping Talk

Over on Maritime Community there was an article about Ship Spares In Transit and what the term means. Here in Canada when a Ship Spares In Transit shipment arrives it is preceded with a pre-notice of arrival containing way bill number, Customs invoice (value for customs), detailed list of all content in shipment including weight. [...]

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We here at ShippingTalk have decided to re-activate our sister site Maritimecommunity.com and write about the shore based Maritime Community, especially about the procurement side of the Maritime Industry. Technical Procurement can be very difficult as so many factors are involved. Amongst who is the ever so important Logistic factor – How to get the [...]

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I recently did some shipments by Air and Sea. They were of same type, size and weight. The process of getting the shipments ready was very different in many ways. Air transportation has many restrictions that you don’t find in maritime transportation. In a LCL maritime shipment the restrictions are not many as long as [...]

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