Packaging for Export

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• 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

   Nota:

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

      Nota:

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

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

Nota:

• 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

   Nota:

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

   Nota:

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

   Nota:

   • 21% claims to insurance.
4. Others

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   • 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

Nota:

• Too large for a traditional container

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

   Nota:

   • Also for LCL
   1. Box

      Nota:

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

      Nota:

      • 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

      Nota:

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

         Nota:

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

Nota:

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