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Commodity Forwarders Inc, a Los Angeles-based forwarder that specialises on perishables traffic, has a rather unusual cargo flow at the moment: in recent days the company has moved lettuce by air to Europe.
“We got calls from retailers, importers and distributors,” reported CFI president Chris Connell.
The traffic is due to adverse weather conditions in southern Europe, which have affected a number of crops.
A combination of cold temperatures, floods and reduced sunlight has hit growers in Spain and Italy, wiping out nearly ...
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Ian Holland
January 26, 2017 at 10:28 amTest Valley Packaging have developed a new range of absorbent products in response to increasing demand from the Airfreight industry.
The challenge was to address the contamination/corrosion to aircraft parts in the cargo hold through uncontrolled condensation caused by leakage from frozen products during air transportation.
In response to this we have developed “Cargo Absorbent”.