Cargo To Africa

Category: Ocean Cargo

  • Important Information About Cargo or Courier Delivery

    Before plan a delivery of cargo or courier what is necessary to know.

     

    Air Cargo is one of the prominent method to deliver the things and articles around the globe. In the same way door to door cargo is also a significant way of cargo distribution. Door to door or courier delivery has greater worth in the world of logistics.

    Airlines and courier services handle many shipments daily, but there are numerous questions that disturbs the customers. Specially, it is a game of puzzle for those who are sending their products by air cargo for the first time.

    An important information is given below for those who are unaware about this process. These questions will help the sender before cargo delivery.

    What is volume, weight?

    How volume is calculated?

    What is chargeable weight?

    What are prohibited goods?

    What is customs clearance?

    What is Volume Weight?

    A less thick article usually occupies more volume of space, in comparison to its real weight. In common expressions, volume weight is a space of a package occupied in a carrier.

    How Volume is Calculated?

    Volume weight completely relies on the dimensions of the package.

    The formula deviates for different methods of shipping. In Air Cargo it is calculated by multiplying the length, width, height and dividing by 6000 (L x W x H/6000), whereas, volume calculated  formula for Door to door service is multiplying the length, width, height and dividing by 5000 (L x W x H/5000).

    What is Chargeable Weight?

    The Chargeable Weight is the Volumetric Weight of the shipment.

    In global freight industry the carriers charge either on the volume, weight or the actual dead weight whichever is greater.

    What are Banned Goods?

    All illegal goods are banned in air cargo.

    Air cargo and courier service there are so many limitations that prohibit transporting a lot of things, including currency, perfumes, bearer instrument, liquid or lithium batteries, semi-liquids, radio-active material, etc.

    What is Customs Clearance?

    It is an act of passing the goods through customs so that they can enter or leave the country.

    This method demands particular formality to be completed for each shipment that leave and arrive in the country. Some of the documents are required for the customs clearance that are export documentation and import documentation.

    This is the useful information that will help you in the delivery of cargo through air cargo or via courier to abroad.

  • Sea Cargo Takes Lead After Panama Canal growth

    The increase in the use of Panama Canal ports has caused air cargo industry to lose a huge market share to sea cargo industry

     

    In Miami, an event under the title “Air and Sea Cargo Americas” was organised recently where Jaime Alvarez Price, senior director cargo at Copa Airlines said that there has been an increase in the number of shipping line services transiting the artery.

    Over recent years, this increase has had a severe effect on the air cargo services as sea cargo has earned a huge share.

    What’s going on with air cargo?

    Price also added that on the marine side, there is more and more activity and since they are into airfreight, they are witnessing more and more airfreight being converted into sea freight services.

    A huge number of ships has started coming into the port more frequently than ever before, like for instance, previously one ship would come to port in a week but now things have changed exceptionally as now there are two or three ships in a week.

    What’s the role of Panama?

    Panama has become the backbone of sea cargo and after the expansion, experts say it is going to make matters worse for the airfreight as the number of shipping containers transiting the Panama Canal will increase once the project has completed. It will then allow larger vessels to pass through without any difficulty.

    What will be the future of air cargo?

    Mathieu Floreani, DHL Global Forwarding chief executive for the Americas has said that Panama’s air cargo industry has a God-given 0pportunity to benefit from as by this year’s industrial action. The haulers had been put off using the US west coast ports and there is also a long term unavailability of the truckers too.

    Floreani also said that he has been into constant contact with many of his customers who used to come into LA, truck across the country to Miami and then fly right into Latin America. But now most of the companies go direct to Panama and then fly the cargo out of Panama.

     

  • Indonesian Cargo Ship Banned By Australia

    It seems that the Indonesian cargo ship Noah Satu broke the rules one too many times leading to it be banned from entering Australia

     

    Not Following Rules

    It’s no surprise considering the cargo ship transgressed the maritime guidelines and broke the rules no less than four times in the last two years since august 2013.

    It’s a basic necessity for any ship no matter where it comes from or where it’s going to follow the guidelines given by the country it is travelling to and from.

    Strict Guidelines

    The cargo ships multitask bringing containers carriers and tankers yet in all their tasks there are standards that must be followed to ensure safety and maintenance of the standard as well as equipment.

    If these guidelines are disregarded then the countries will take necessary disciplinary action which acts as a warning to the global cargo market. Australia in this case has taken disciplinary action and rightfully so.

    No Leniency

    Depending on the size, capacity and operating system of the ships the requirements and safety standards vary. They are formed by maritime professionals and are accepted globally.

    No leniency is expected when it comes to these rules and it is expected that these standards will be kept with utmost care.

    The Indonesian Ship

    This particular ship was an Indonesian ship called Noah satu and is a ship used for general cargo services.

    It has now been banned from Australia altogether and cannot enter any part of the country until around mid-December 2015.

    Problematic Ship

    The Australian maritime safety authority issued this ban after the ship was stopped at a port operating by the Gladstone Ports Corporation known as port Alma.  The reasons given were failure to follow safety regulations and standards and the management of the ship in regards to safety was fairly insufficient.

    Surprisingly alongside this there were also other flaws in the ship included route plans that were not deemed appropriate and equipment that was used well beyond its age posing a serious risk.

    The planning of the route was done incorrectly and machines were found on board that had not been authorized. Enclosed space entry drills had not been undertaken.

    And last but not least authority’s found that there was food on board that was no doubt contaminated. The safety authority of Australia undertakes thorough and high level ship checks yet it is a rare occurrence for ships to be banned from Australian waters. In total this ship marks the fifth ship to have been banned out of the many ships that enter Australia.

  • A Massive Collision In Singapore

    A video has been released showing a collision between a giant tanker and a small cargo ship that seems to get caught up.

     

    In the straits of Singapore the two ships were passing the stretch of water when the smaller ship didn’t keep enough distance and thus collided.  The waters they were passing through measuring 65 miles long with a width of 9 miles lies between the Strait of Malacca which is west and the South China Sea situated east.

    Passengers and workers on other cargo ships captured video footage of the incident and it is seen that the larger ship then seems to be shoving the smaller boat of its course as it gets too close and blocks the way. The horn is being beeped aggressively and the larger ships captain seems outraged. Both boats then try to maneuver and get back into a safe distance after the incident.

    Being one of the world’s busiest ports it’s thankful that not more damage was done and it was just a collision. The boats suffered damage but thankfully no one was injured.