Moving a consignment without losing it

Transport preserves; it does not improve

The single most useful thing to know about a logistics operation is the direction it works in. A reefer container holds a temperature; it does not un-warm a pallet that was loaded warm. A hold keeps a cargo dry; it does not dry it. Condition at loading is the ceiling for condition at discharge, which is why every entry here names the post-harvest operations it assumes were done first, and the quality attributes it puts at stake.

Logistics is the physical half of a trade. The contractual half — who arranges carriage, who bears the loss, who clears the goods — is described under trade concepts, and the ways a chain fails are described under supply-chain risks.

Transport modes are a class, not a separate section

Sea freight and palletisation are documented the same way and answer the same kind of question, so a mode is a class of logistics concept rather than its own route. Each entry states the cargo forms it applies to — dry bulk, liquid bulk, breakbulk, containerised, unitised, or live — because an operation apt for one form is often meaningless for another.

Every entry states its own limits

There is no single disclaimer that covers this section, because the honest limit differs per operation. Route, vessel, season, packaging, contract, and counterparty change what an operation achieves, and a generalised claim about any of them would be invented. Each entry therefore carries its own operational limitations, stated on the page alongside the description they qualify.

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