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Common causes In overseas maritime container shipping, there are many different parties involved. A great advantage of this practice is that it has allowed companies to specialize in different phases of the logistics process, greatly reducing costs, increasing both efficiency and geographical outreach. On the other side, having so many stakeholders responsible for one shipment can make communication difficult and responsibilities or liability unclear. On a typical international full container shipping route, below are the parties that may physically handle cargo: The supplier/factory loading the cargo. The local trucker delivering the cargo to a local warehouse. The local dray company moving the cargo from the warehouse to the terminal The origin terminal The transshipment terminal The arrival port terminal Customs...

While dunnage isn’t a typical vocabulary word of the average consumer, it’s a commonplace term for shippers. Used to describe packaging components like bubble wrap, kraft paper, crinkle paper, plastic bracing, fillers, planks, blocks, and boards, dunnage helps secure and support packages throughout the shipping and handling process.  If you’ve ever picked and packed an order, you probably used dunnage to help protect the products in some way. The more fragile an item, the more dunnage it needs. For example, if you shipped a glass vase, you probably used bubble wrap to fill in the gaps in the box so the case wouldn’t shift around. Alternatively, if you shipped a pillow, you don’t need any dunnage given the low risk...