Transport Packaging

DHL Announces Environmental Protection Initiatives

DHL, an international express shipping provider, advanced several sustainability initiatives this month. The goal is to minimize the impact of DHL’s shipping network on the environment. The announcement coincides with the U.S. Department of Energy’s initiative promoting conservation and a clean energy economy during National Energy Awareness Month....

U.S. Demand for Labels: $20 Billion by 2015

U.S. label shipments are forecast to rise 4.8 percent annually to $20 billion in 2015, according to “Labels,” a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industry research firm...

NASSTRAC Opposes Higher Class Ratings on Unitized Shipments

NASSTRAC, an industry association that represents the interests of freight shippers in all modes of transportation, has expressed its opposition to the proposal by Roadrunner Transportation Services to modify Item 640 of CCSB Docket No. 2011-2, Section 1, Subject 9...

Interpack 2011 Attacks Global Problems

The interpack 2011 Process and Packaging Show, taking place May 12-18 in Düsseldorf, Germany, will have special relevance this year. With hunger being an ever-present issue in many countries, this event will have a special focus on food...

Dodd Letter Sets Off another Pallet Battle

With less than a month left to his 30-year career in the U.S. Senate, Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg last month, urging the agency to notify “food manufacturers, transporters and retailers inspected by the FDA that plastic pallets containing decaBDE are inappropriate for use in scenarios that may bring decabromine into contact with food.”...

Design Unit Loads for the Road

New legislation may allow shippers to haul more weight, which means bigger unit loads. Until then, getting the most from your pallets and packaging is a best practice at any time...

The Sustainable Unit Load

Today there are two best practices around sustainable unit load design, and both are related to the concept of reducing, reusing and recycling: The first is to design the unit load with the minimum packaging required for the application and with an eye toward what happens to the materials at their final destination; the second is to use material and products that can be reused or recycled whenever possible...

Indiana Maps Way to Logistics Success

This state is developing a formula to prepare its workforce for high-skill, high-tech logistics careers....

Rental pallets certified safe for food chain

NSF International gave its Food Equipment Certification to the recyclable plastic rental pallets offered by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC). This certification demonstrates the pallet complies with the organization’s food protection and sanitation requirements for materials, design, fabrication and construction of food handling and processing equipment...