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Planning, Innovation & Creativity For Shipping Success

According to Neal Samson of Global Trade Daily, shipping high-value assets takes planning and innovation sprinkled with a little bit of creativity.  “Shipping cargo of any kind requires taking certain precautions to ensure the shipment arrives at its destination safely. Things get more complicated when high-value cargo is involved. Shipping cargo that includes unique pieces […]

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Abate Counterfeiting & Loss of High-Value Goods

The Internet of Things (aka IoT) is defined by Wikipedia as, “…the network of physical objects—“things”—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.” OpticalLock is an innovation company who set out to solve the global issue of counterfeiting […]

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Meeting Defense Transportation Cargo Tracking Regulations-Part II

In Part I of this series we discussed the regulations contained in the “Joint Publication 4-01 The Defense Transportation System. In this post we’ll be reviewing another enormous document, the US Defense Transportation Regulation. The focus of this discussion will be be on Part II of this document which covers Cargo Movement. Even this section […]

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Meeting Defense Transportation Cargo Movement Regulations – Part I

In this Blog we’ll be taking a look from time to time at regulations which affect the markets that OpticalLock participates in. In this post we’ll be reviewing a specific area of the Document “Joint Publication 4-01 The Defense Department Transportation System“. This is a massive, daunting document on defense transportation and there are many […]

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