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Two logistics workers in hard hats and hi-vis vests checking a tablet beside a gantry crane and stacked containersGuide

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Industry bodies & accreditations: who's behind the badge

Rows of stacked shipping containers in a container yard under a pale skyGuide

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VGM explained: Verified Gross Mass under SOLAS, with a free calculator

Wide-body freighter aircraft on the apron with its main-deck cargo door open and a pallet being raised on a high loaderGuide

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Dangerous goods by air: IATA DGR, lithium batteries and the Shipper's Declaration

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Crawler cranes lifting large steel monopile sections onto the deck of a heavy-lift ship in portFeature

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New ships: 24,000 TEU container ships, and geared vs gearless heavy-lift vessels

What the biggest container ships mean for ports, rates and congestion, plus a practical guide to geared and gearless heavy-lift ships and checking crane capacity.

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Container guide

Dimensions, door openings, payload and capacity for every ISO box, with 3D views.

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Cube & chargeable weight

CBM, cubic feet and chargeable weight for air, courier, LCL and road.

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VGM calculator

Method 2 Verified Gross Mass, with a warning if you go over the max gross.

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Tariff look-ups

Official commodity code and duty look-ups for the UK, EU and US.

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Total logistics: air, road and sea

What matters in logistics, by logistics people.

Wide-body freighter aircraft on the apron with its main-deck cargo door open and a pallet being raised on a high loader

Air

Chargeable weight, dangerous goods by air and the IATA rules.

Cube calculator DG by air

Two articulated box trailers driving along a motorway towards the hills at sunrise

Road

UK import and export basics, carnets and getting goods moving.

Import & export ATA Carnets

Aerial view of a container terminal with cranes and stacked boxes beside deep blue water

Sea

Containers, VGM, dangerous goods by sea and Incoterms.

Container guide VGM DG by sea

Heavy-haul tractor unit and low-loader trailer carrying an oversized yellow mining dump truck

Project & heavy lift

Flat racks, out-of-gauge cargo and heavy-lift ships.

Heavy-lift ships Flat racks

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Editable risk assessments, method statements and one-page loading checklists for project and heavy-lift cargo.

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