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• ISPM-15 Compliance: The IPPC Stamp, Heat Treatment, and Common Errors That Reject Shipments
  ISPM-15 Exists for a Reason The international plant protection standard ISPM-15 was adopted in 2002 to address a real problem: wood packaging material moving between countries was carrying invasive insect species across borders. The Asian Longhorned Beetle, the Emerald Ash Borer, and several other pests have caused billions of dollars of damage to forests in […]
• Calculating Dry Ice for a Cold-Chain Transit: A Practical Formula for Shippers
  The Right Amount of Dry Ice Is a Calculation, Not a Guess Most dry ice shipments are sized by experience. The shipper picks a number that worked last time and uses it again. That works fine when the lane, the insulation, and the transit time are constant. It fails when any of those variables changes, […]
• CBP Forms Every Importer Should Know: 5106, 7501, 3461, and the Supporting Cast
  The Forms Make More Sense Than They Look CBP runs the largest customs operation in the world, and like any large bureaucracy it runs on forms. Importers see those forms mostly through the customs broker’s invoice, where the form numbers appear as line items without much context. Knowing what each form actually does makes the […]
• Low Boy vs. Landoll vs. RGN: Picking the Right Heavy Haul Trailer
  Three Trailers, Three Different Jobs The three trailers that move most permitted oversize freight in Florida look similar in a parking lot and behave very differently on the road. Low boys, Landolls, and RGNs (removable gooseneck trailers) all handle heavy cargo that does not fit on a standard flatbed. They load differently, route differently under […]