A law has been proposed requiring the cargo boxes of trucks carrying gravel to be covered by atarpaulin, because vehicles driving close behind open-topped gravel trucks can be damaged by gravel flying off these trucks. The law is unlikely to substantially reduce such damage, however: flying grav...
If the expiry date of a Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate is May 1, 2012, and the renewal survey is completed on Jan 20, 2012, which of the followings is the validity of new certificate()A.Jan 20, 2012—Jan 19, 2017B.Jan 20, 2012—Apr 1..
To speed up the registration process, the consignee is recommended to personally present with original passport/ID to Thai Customs at Suvarnabhumi Airport Cargo Clearance Customs Office, otherwise, the registration process may take up to 3-4 days. For non-Thai Nationals FDA also requires a work...
Traders around the world, whether they are trading toys or soya beans, all come across the same inbound logistical challenges when exporting their products abroad – fromnavigating documentationto dealing withdemurragesandmaritime insurance. In a trade cycle, inbound logistics is the way that goods ...
14 The secretary is expected to explore ideas for post-war reconstruction of the area. A deny B investigate C stress D create 15 The steadily rising cost of labor on the waterfront has greatly increased the cost of shipping cargo by water. ...
Food has “special considerations” compared to other industries given that it depends on fresh and often perishable ingredients; it has direct and severe health risks associated with any inappropriate handling or production; very stringent storage and distribution requirements (often requiring the active...
First proposed by NASA in 1974, the Technology Readiness Level (TRL)20is a scale used to estimate the maturity of a technology. Although a specific TRL scale has been recently proposed for battery manufacturing20, in Fig.2, we propose a different TRL scale that considers the steps required ...
Shipping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction has always been slow, which has led to the tightening of international and regional regulations, e.g. IMO’s 2023 measures, and the EU Climate law. While the shipping industry is accelerating decarbonisation, questions are raised as to what rol...
A new risk assessment framework is presented that augments the current POLARIS methodology to model consequences. The framework accounts for the likelihood of incurring ice-induced damage and the potential life-safety, environmental, and socio-economic consequences. The benefit of the proposed framework ...
Many methods for analyzing line loss have been proposed; however, these methods still have problems in result accuracy, as load patterns are different during different time intervals, even if in the same time interval, the randomness of load operation may result in analysis errors [19]. The fir...