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Valentine’s Day is perhaps the biggest day in the calendar for the global flower industry with over $20 billion in exports annually. Throughout the years, roses remain a popular staple of the Valentine’s Day market. Red roses are by tradition the
The fastest and most efficient way to transport things both domestically and internationally is by air. The difference in cost between air and sea transport is often quite significant. However, in some cases, this difference can be not only necessary
It is inevitable that we will see some supply-chain disruption this year, but it likely to be far less than the global turmoil experienced over the last two years, as consumer demand is likely to be muted through the first
Having seen record queues of over 100 vessels disappear entirely and long dwell containers fall by 92% over the last 14 months, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are going to scrap a container dwell fee programme that
Entering international markets is a long and complex process that requires companies to allocate numerous resources in terms of time and money. However, it is a rewarding effort because exporting is also the fastest way to internationalise a company—a strategy that
The export procedure is an international commercial operation that covers all the stages that a company must complete to be able to sell its goods or products outside the borders of the country in which it carries out its activity. It
Spain’s Law 7/2022 of 8 April 2022 on waste and contaminated soils (“LRSC”) introduced a new tax on non-reusable plastic packaging, which will be effective as of 01-01-2023. The Plastic Packaging Tax is defined as a tax of an indirect nature
Containers are normally owned or leased by shipping lines that provide them to their customers (shippers or merchants) for the safe and fast door-to-door transport of their goods. Because the cost of using the container during door-to-door transportation is included
Dock workers at Felixstowe, Britain’s biggest container port, started their second walkout this morning, with an eight-day strike over pay, that overlaps a similar walkout over pay by Unite Union members at the Port of Liverpool from the 19th September
Over the last two months almost half a million TEU of capacity has been blanked from Asia to Europe, while carriers plan to blank 700,000 TEU, or 24% of total capacity to the US East and West coasts in October. With
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