Safety

Safety, welfare, and the environment are all concerns in logistics. So, how can we mitigate the harmful effects we have in supply chains? Head of Safety Rinus de Bruijn discusses in this article.

About a year ago we added GOC Rotterdam to the Customs Support family. Until recently they operated under the GOC name, but now that they have successfully integrated they will continue as Customs Support Safety as of January 1st, 2022.

Shipping containers and other closed, or poorly ventilated spaces, like storage facilities can develop dangerous levels of gases. Higher concentrations of dangerous gases can develop because they can be emitted from packaging materials, for example.

90 Percent of the world’s cargo is transported by shipping container. The number of containers keeps increasing. In 2019 the total throughput was 800 million TEU. TEU stands for Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, the length of a standard shipping container. COVID caused a small dip in the increase for 2020, but the forecast for 2021 is 827 million and the total throughput is forecasted to rise to 924 million in 2024.