By Benny. Lim

Background:

A company who imports uninterruptible power supply (UPS)products in United States designated TGL (Team Global Logistics) as their logistics provider to taking care of their shipments from China, Taiwan and India to United States, along with domestics services in USA(delivery and custom clearance).

SHIPPING NOTICES:

Since most uninterruptible power supply systems (UPS) contain batteries, So it is necessary to strictly abide by the relevant regulations.

The crate used for units packaging have to be reuse, thus it is important to fix it safety during transportation.

Documents for DG goods is required and prepared by shipper.

Transportation method:

If the uninterruptible power supply system (UPS) has a built-in battery, it is listed as the eighth or ninth category of dangerous goods, the UN number is 3480, while the official shipping name (PSN)must shown as LITHIUM ION BATTERIES, and get the material safety data sheet (MSDS) from the supplier in advance, also with UN38.3 battery test report, and China needs to provide a cargo transportation identification report of the product. The content of sea and air transportation varies according to the mode of transportation.

Technically, the review and approval takes about half a day by airlines , while ocean have differences standard of procedure which depend on each shipping company. According to past experience, YML and OOCL are stricter when assisting in reviewing docs of dangerous goods, and EMC takes 3-5 days for checking. While ZIM and COSCO have less restrictions on battery cargo contracting. TGL (Team Global Logistics) considering the customer's delivery issue and provides different shipping arrangements to facilitate customers in receiving the units in a timely manner.

The crate of packaging units also need to be reuse due to customer requirements, and this convenient safety measure and fixation are strengthened. It is more efficient to reuse the crate coming from suppliers in Asia because labor cost too much in United States . In order to ensure the crate and units were all in good condition when arrived in door, it is a must to get in touch with suppliers for the safety issue when fixing crate

in containers.

Supply chain is obviously affected by epidemic during the past two years. Port congestion happened in each port of country, an aging terminal facilities was Influence and slower the processing, more vessels were blank sailing to control space allocation, and railway congestion are one of the uncertain factors too. Customers was concern about the delivery issue and afraid it could not arrive in time due to above factor occurred. Hence, TGL (Team Global Logistics) provide a solution by transloading the cargo directly to inland without rail, its allow us to control the time for being delivery and processed the custom clearance beforehand. Afterwards, the container was pick up in the west coast port to our warehouse to transfer the goods from container into 53’ft trailer, then the goods was sent to appointed location in the next day, thereby reducing the uncertainty caused by railway congestion. In order to increase the visualization of cargo and

ensure the mastery of goods, TGL (Team Global Logistics) provides customers with customized daily cargo tracking spreadsheet, and completes the last mile delivery based on purchasing order number (PO) that customers are most familiar with.

THE END:

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