If your supply chain touches Florida, your drayage strategy is now a balance-sheet item. PortMiami moves more than 1.2 million TEUs a year and Port Everglades just closed Fiscal Year 2025 at a record 1,167,552 TEUs, simultaneously hitting all-time highs in cargo, energy, and cruise volumes. Importers used to pick a port and forget about […]
ISPM-15 Exists for a Reason The international plant protection standard ISPM-15 was adopted in 2002 to address a real problem: wood packaging material moving between countries was carrying invasive insect species across borders. The Asian Longhorned Beetle, the Emerald Ash Borer, and several other pests have caused billions of dollars of damage to forests in […]
The Right Amount of Dry Ice Is a Calculation, Not a Guess Most dry ice shipments are sized by experience. The shipper picks a number that worked last time and uses it again. That works fine when the lane, the insulation, and the transit time are constant. It fails when any of those variables changes, […]
The Forms Make More Sense Than They Look CBP runs the largest customs operation in the world, and like any large bureaucracy it runs on forms. Importers see those forms mostly through the customs broker’s invoice, where the form numbers appear as line items without much context. Knowing what each form actually does makes the […]
Three Trailers, Three Different Jobs The three trailers that move most permitted oversize freight in Florida look similar in a parking lot and behave very differently on the road. Low boys, Landolls, and RGNs (removable gooseneck trailers) all handle heavy cargo that does not fit on a standard flatbed. They load differently, route differently under […]
What a CFS Actually Does A Container Freight Station is a CBP-regulated facility, operating under 19 CFR Part 118, that handles imported cargo before it has been formally entered into U.S. commerce or while it remains under bond. The job description is narrow but specific: receive sealed containers from the port, deconsolidate them into individual […]
Why the Annual DGR Edition Matters The IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations are reissued every January. Each edition carries changes ranging from minor clarifications to substantive new requirements. The aviation industry is required to adopt the new edition on the effective date, but shippers have a three-month transition window during which the previous edition can still […]
Miami Beach Is Not a Normal Last-Mile Market A delivery driver running a 22-stop route in Doral can stop, dock, unload, and roll in 12 minutes per stop. The same driver on Collins Avenue with a Miami Beach hotel delivery is looking at 45 to 90 minutes per stop on a good day, and the […]
Two Ports, One Decision PortMiami and Port Everglades are the two busiest ocean gateways in Florida and sit 25 miles apart on the same stretch of coast. Most importers and exporters with cargo coming through South Florida have a default port and never seriously revisit the choice. That is leaving money on the table. The […]
Crating Is the Last Thing You Think About and the First Thing That Fails Domestic shipments forgive a lot of packaging sins. Export shipments do not. An industrial export crate moves from a forklift onto a flatbed, off the flatbed and onto a CFS dock, into a container, onto a vessel, through 10 to 18 […]