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There’s a lot that can happen between Point A, when an order leaves your hands, and Point B, when it arrives at a customer’s door. Delivering a great shipping experience is just as important as delivering a great product—according to one study, 39%…

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International liner shipping is a sophisticated network of regularly scheduled services that transports goods from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world at low cost and with greater energy efficiency than any other form of international transportation. EFFICIENCY Liner shipping…

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For a long time in human history, maritime shipping was the best way to transport your goods across the world. About 71% of Earth’s surface is covered in oceans. Therefore, transporting your goods on a ship to another continent was a relatively…

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Shipping, the servant of global trade, has a massive environmental footprint. Typically 90% of what we consume in the UK has been imported; most is shipped. We’re not just talking consumer goods – TVs, iPhones, trainers – but also dry bulk goods,…

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Shipping is the physical moving of good from one point to another, such as the moving of merchandise from the warehouse to the customer. The shipping process follows the manufacture and the packing of goods and will be controlled by a shipping or…

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GBN has been providing an outline of the world of trading. Here we look at what we mean by ‘shipping’ and the vocabulary surrounding this area. So, what is shipping? It is the physical movement of goods from one point to another, such as…

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