The ocean freight shipping industry is trending toward super sized vessels. These vessels are not only almost twice the size of a typical cargo vessel, but they pollute less. The shipping industry has decided that super large cargo ships that are highly efficient to operate is the answer to the...
Product liability laws are designed to protect consumers from damage or harm from products. Areas of liability can include personal injury, property damage and warrantee breaches. Manufactures of products can be held accountable for design and manufacturing defects, failure to warn and other types of negligence. One typically associates liability...
One of the biggest challenges that many of our customers face is trying to do more with less. In particular warehouse or factory space. Many lean initiatives are shrinking the need for manufacturing space by reducing inventory and more efficiently using floor space. Some companies have a metric that tracks...
According to a recent press release, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TBS) released its findings on a yearlong investigation of a Bell 206B Helicopter malfunction during a training exercise in September 2011. The instructor and student were doing flight training in Thunder Bay Ontario, when the clutch failed to...
Ocean Cargo prices went up dramatically in 2012 as carriers tried to recover from high fuel costs and damaging price erosion seen in late 2010 and 2011. Basically the shipping industry had too much capacity in 2011 and fierce competition for business pushed prices down to the point where no...
A massive longshoreman strike that was threatened for the first of the year has been averted (at least temporarily) after federal mediators stepped in. No details have been released on the agreements that postponed the strike for thirty days.While a relatively small group is involved (14000 workers) a strike by...
A recent case study demonstrates Packnet’s creative use of it is capabilities and its flexibility in creating custom packaging solutions for customers. Vaddio manufactures cutting edge camera technology for the audiovisual, videoconference and broadcast industries. Vaddios sales staff has their products on hand when meeting with potential clients. The fragile...