Packaging for Export

Anmerkungen:

• Consumer packaging

1. Marketing function

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• Groups several of the consumer goods in one unit. Te retailer sees and handles before the goods are placed on the shelves.

1. Cardboard box

   Anmerkungen:

   • Corrugated paperboard box
   1. Thickness
   2. Flutes used
   3. Number of layers

      Anmerkungen:

      • Single, double, and triple wall versions.
2. Plastic wrap

   Anmerkungen:

   • Consolidate multiple units into one and protect from water.
   1. Strech-wrap
   2. Shrink wrap

Anmerkungen:

• or transportation packaging.

1. Additional protection
   1. Safe
   2. Efficient delivery

1. Best interest of the exporter

1. Respect capabilities
2. Handling and care instructions

1. Quick unpack

1. Mechanical damage

   Anmerkungen:

   • 43% claims to insurance
   1. Breakage
   2. Crushes
   3. Nicks
   4. Dents
2. Water damage

   Anmerkungen:

   • 15% claims insurance
   1. Seawater
   2. Rain
   3. Floods
   4. Container sweat
3. Theft and pilferage

   Anmerkungen:

   • 21% claims to insurance.
4. Others

   Anmerkungen:

   • 21% of claims
   1. Fire
   2. Strandings
   3. Collision
   4. Overboard losses
   5. jettison

1. Details

1. Entire capacity of a container
   1. Weight
   2. Volume
2. Choice of container
   1. Palletization
   2. Non-unitilized
3. Dunnage
   1. Hooks, strap or wood
   2. Inflatable bags

1. Consolidated
   1. Freight forwarder
   2. Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier

Anmerkungen:

• Too large for a traditional container

1. Crain capacity
2. Port capacity
3. Crates and Boxes

   Anmerkungen:

   • Also for LCL
   1. Box

      Anmerkungen:

      • Wooden container desgned to unitize the goods and protect them. Tha walls are an integral part of a box´s structura strength
   2. Crate

      Anmerkungen:

      • Wooden container desgined to unitize the goods and protect them. In a crate, the structural strengthos provided by a web of wooden cross members
      1. Three-way corners
   3. Bags

      Anmerkungen:

      • Multi wall shipping bag (25 kg).Container design to unitize dry-bulk cargo (paper, plastic other)
      1. Flexible intermediate bulk container (FIBC)

         Anmerkungen:

         • Polymer and fiber drums (1m3) 
         1. Granular cargo
   4. Drums
      1. metallic
      2. Polymer
      3. fiber

Anmerkungen:

• March 2005 must conform to International phytosanitary measure 15: Marked: IPPC (international plant protection convention) wood treated.