by logisticsplus | Jan 16, 2015 | News
Congratulations on creating your new retail business! You’ve set up a cool new website, you’ve found a low-cost source for your merchandise using overseas manufacturing, and you have seller accounts set up on Amazon.com and eBay.com. Now you need to get your products into the United States and deliver them to your warehouse or fulfillment centers. Unfortunately, incoterms, customs regulations, duties, and freight transportation are not your areas of expertise. No worries, Logistics Plus has helped many other retailers, just like you, get their products imported and delivered to where they need to go – easily, quickly, and affordably.
When you work with us for your import shipping, you get access to the entire Logistics Plus® network of resources. That’s over 350 talented and dedicated logistics professionals in nearly 40 offices across 20 countries; capabilities across all modes of transportation, including air, ocean, ground, and rail; and expertise in customs brokerage, regulations, duties, tariffs, taxes, documentation, and everything else involved in importing goods from a foreign country. Importing to Amazon fulfillment centers doesn’t have to be worrisome or complex. Whether you need only freight shipping from the U.S. port to your fulfillment center or complete door-to-door transportation from the manufacturer to the destination – Logistics Plus can help you with it all. And if you’re also selling your goods in Europe, Asia or elsewhere – we can help you with those moves too.
You have a retail business to run and products to sell – that’s your specialty. If you’d like to keep your focus on that part of your business, let us help you with the logistics side of things. Join the countless other retailers who turned to Logistics Plus for their imports and international shipping needs. You’ll quickly discover how we put the “plus” in logistics by doing all of the little things you need to succeed! To get started, send us an email to quotes@logisticsplus.com or give us a call at 1.866.LOG.PLUS! (1.866.564.7587).
by logisticsplus | Jan 13, 2015 | News
A project almost two years in the making came together yesterday for Logistics Plus and our customer Rogers Brothers Corporation. Rogers Brothers, manufacturer of ROGERS® low-bed heavy-hauler semi-trailers, designed and constructed the largest trailer they have manufactured since WWII for their customer, Southern Peru Copper Mine Corp. The monster-sized trailer is designed to haul large mining equipment off-road and is two-to-three times larger than a standard highway trailer. Fully assembled, it weighs 94 tons, is over 100 feet long, 20 feet wide, and is capable of hauling 440,000 pounds. Each one of its 24 tires is made of solid rubber (i.e., no air) and weighs close to 1,000 pounds. This one trailer is so big, that Logistics Plus needed to coordinate six over-dimensional trailer loads to legally move it on U.S. highways.
Rogers Brothers trusted Logistics Plus to coordinate the movement of the trailer from its manufacturing facility in Albion, PA to a warehouse at the Port of Houston in Texas, where the end customer will ship the trailer via ocean breakbulk to Peru. Many Logistics Plus team members – including Andy Seidler, Matt Bosko, Abi Lopez, Gretchen Seth, Craig Warnshuis, Gretchen Blough, Jeremy Chaffee, and others – were involved off and on over the past two years to assist the Rogers Brothers staff in costing, planning, quoting, surveying, and finally coordinating and loading the trucks.
Logistics Plus team members, Gretchen Blough and Jeremy Chaffee were onsite yesterday at Rogers Brothers to help coordinate the final details, including trucks, drivers, riggers, and paperwork. As often is the case, some ‘behind the scenes’ hiccups and weather issues made things interesting. In the end, however, the combined team battled through a snowstorm, ice, and cold to load all six truckloads in just over eight hours. The customer is very pleased, and everything is proceeding on schedule to deliver to Houston.
If you have big, unique, or challenging project cargo as described here, then contact us and let our Logistics Plus specialists go to work for you too.
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by logisticsplus | Jan 13, 2015 | Home: Tabs
Logistics Plus® is a leading provider of LTL (less-than-truckload) freight transportation services, including standard, guaranteed, and volume options.
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by logisticsplus | Jan 13, 2015 | Home: Tabs
Logistics Plus® is a leading provider of truckload solutions, including dry van, flatbed, and refrigerated equipment options. We can also help with expedited, air, ocean, rail, and intermodal shipments.
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Logistics Plus® provides warehousing that’s just the right size, in just the right place, for just the right length of time. We can also help with order management and distribution services.
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