Import from China-advantages and disadvantages

Importing from China and the Far East can be a very lucrative business, as long as you do your research and a reputation for import / export agent. Import “blind” over the Internet may request a trouble free, especially if the prepayment. They also look for pirated e-mail accounts, with free e-mail. Payment by credit card is the default when you import from China and therefore demanded cash up front (unless it is in the number of samples) automatically activates an alarm. A letter of credit is not perfect, for example, an exporter would fill boxes with paper and could not see that goods are not there until the bank has complied with the letter of credit.

Good nine months for Port of Rotterdam

Throughput rises between January and September, boosted by a positive third quarter of the year In the Netherlands, the Port of Rotterdam Authority has announced that cargo throughput increased by 1.7 per cent through the first nine months of the year, growing to 327m tonnes. Throughput increased across a number of different areas, including 11 per cent year-on-year growth in containers to 93m tonnes.

Intermodal Europe 2011, Containers in Motion – an unmissable event

Intermodal Europe, the world's leading event for container transport and logistics across the road rail and sea sectors, is returning to Hamburg on 29 November – 2 December 2011. This unmissable annual event, which features a free-to-attend conference and exhibition, attracted record numbers of visitors through its doors in 2010 and is once again expected to attract key decision makers from some of the world’s leading shipping lines, cargo owners, freight forwarders and logistics operators. Last year, more than 3,400 industry professionals attended the event, making it the largest dedicated intermodal event in mainland Europe.