Flat bottles of wine and their impact in logistics

The global wine industry is estimated to use more than 35 billion glass bottles a year, and transportation (in most cases in boxes of six or 12) involves large volumes of unused airspace.

The origins of the flat wine bottle

Developed originally to facilitate the seamless delivery of wine into UK homes via the letterbox, our innovation was conceived by wine retailing entrepreneur Santiago Navarro and his co-founder Joe Revell created the company Garçon Wines.

They set out to improve consumer convenience, cut the costs of failed deliveries which in the UK alone are estimated to be £1.6 billion, and help to reduce the near 1 million kilograms of carbon emissions associated with missed deliveries in the UK.

Santiago Navarro says that the recycled plastic used for the bottles was safe and did not affect the taste. The company said it used technology that reduced the ingress of oxygen into the bottles for about a year.

Their impact on wine logistics

With a goal of significant advancement in wine logistics, packaging and sustainability, Garçon Wines have created a game-changing case for multi-bottle transit and delivery.

This packaging is innovated and improves sustainability, it fits 10 flat bottles in a space that only fits 4 round, glass 75cl bottles, which means 2.3 times more wine fits on a pallet, reducing the number of HGVs needed and allowing companies to slash their logistics costs and supply chain greenhouse gas emissions by 60%.

It is also lighter and takes less space, Packed with our lightweight bottles, the whole case weighs just 9kg, making it 36% lighter based on a pro-rata comparison with an average six bottle case, and it is safer for workers to handle across the supply chain. The box is made from 100% sustainably sourced cardboard and 100% recyclable.

As a summary that says it all, one pallet loaded with flat bottle cases could carry 1,040 bottles of wine, compared with 456 round bottles.

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL, Transportation and logistics

Cirque du Soleil is an entertainment company and the world’s largest theater producer. It is based in Montreal, Canada.

EFM is a logistics company specialised in multi modal transport. Since 2000 they have been providing logistics solutions to the live events industry.

Leading brands and the biggest names in Music, Sport, Automotive, Events, Stage & Screen trust and rely on them to manage their global event logistics. They have been behind the successful delivery of many of the greatest shows of the 21st century.

In 2017 EFM was designated to deal with the vehicle and coordinations for Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza show. They organized everything to move the show from Perth to Singapore, where they tied down cutting edge endorsement from Singapore Customs to permit the high worth shipments to be brought into Singapore.

They took care of the entryway to entryway transportation, in addition to the lifting and establishing of 78 delivery compartments, including all the set, outfits, creation and specialized hardware, and the team gear. Also, they took care of further shipments into Singapore, to get together with the primary show from Paris, Melbourne and Montreal.

In Perth, they had side loaders at the Belmont Park Racecourse, to lift all the compartments onto trucks to move them from the scene to the port. The activity was amazingly tight with only six hours between the planned assortment time of the last holder and the cut-off time at the port for the shipment.

On appearance in Singapore, the EFM crew had two days to clear and convey the initial three compartments to the Marina Bay Sands. Fro some of the tasks they used a 180 ton crane. They finished the activity three hours in front of calendar and premiere night of the visit in Singapore was a colossal achievement. The show showed up in Shanghai and has since been touring in China, where they have moved everything from Shenzhen to Hong Kong.

Although Cirque Du Soleil worked with EFM they signed an agreement with DHL in 2014 so they became official logistics partner. I recommend you to visit the website of EFM, they have lots of cases of study of their most successful and biggest projects, EFM.

From here to eternity, HOW LOGISTICS CAN POWER THE FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL

When Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn founded DHL in 1969, they didn’t know they would revolutionize the world of logistics. Today, DHL is the world’s leading logistics company. They have 380,000 employees in over 220 countries and territories that work to deliver over 1.5 million parcels per day.

In 2011, NASA resigned their famous Space Shuttle Program, making the way for new associations like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Amazon organizer Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. These aspiring endeavors started winning worthwhile NASA agreements to supply outsider coordinations to the space station, utilizing unmanned self-ruling vehicles to convey everything from fresh food to scientific instruments.

In 2018 DHL began a venture called MoonBox shipping service in collaboration with Astrobotic Technology, Inc. a company that tries to make space available to the world. The organization’s lunar lander, Peregrine, conveys payloads to the Moon for organizations, governments, colleges, non-benefits, and people. They are presently tolerating little tokens for incorporation on its first shipment to the Moon. These mementos will be put away on the Moon for a considerable length of time to come.

This is a unique opportunity to commemorate special occasions such as your graduation, holiday, wedding, child’s birth, or loved one’s memory with a lasting symbol that will carry on their lunar lander. Life’s most important moments can be forever linked with the Moon.

You can learn more about MoonBox here. By the way, the website is really fun to use.

THE LOGISTICS OF THE PyeongChang WINTER Olympics

As you all probably know the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed. It’s interesting how the IOC fought against the people that wanted them to postpone the Games with logistics. We can read more about this here.

After reading about this I became interested in the logistics of such a global event as the Olympic Games. And I came across lots of articles about what a chanllenge the 2018 Winter Olympics was. Basically the biggest concerns were related to the location, the capital of North Korea PyeongChang.

The games in North Korea are different from past Olympics because of the area. Previously, the games have been situated in urban focuses like Rio or London. In this case the area will carry less issues with traffic clog, yet the transportation framework despite everything presents issues. Open travel must be set up or enhanced for the strangely high volume of explorers.

Roadbuilding had been in progress to guarantee better transportation of cargo, while the competitors, media and onlookers travel by rapid rail. Another freeway is lessening travel from the Incheon International Airport to the Olympic scenes by around 40 minutes. The augmentation of a road from Seoul by 75 km diminished travel time by an additional 40 minutes. In general, an aggregate of 16 streets were constructed or extended to make the coordinations of the 2018 Winter Games conceivable.

The Olympic Games are not just a possibility for the atheletes to perform at their top cutoff points, yet for coordinations and distribution center administration organizations to convey world-class perfomances of their own. These organizations must keep up their concentration and execute flawlessly previously, during and after the 2018 Olympics had finished. Organizations, for example, Hanjin and Rock-It Cargo, similar to the a huge number of competitors who contend, had a mind boggling achievement to think back on for a considerable length of time to come.

For big cities around the world, the Olympic Games raises their popularity, yet in addition regularly leaves them obliged for enormous facilities they never use again. For coordinations suppliers, the Games are a chance to make huge edges on cost-in addition to contracts on one of the greatest, and most obvious stages on the planet. The upside, if everything works out positively, is getting your organization’s name joined to a successful Olympic Games—the drawback, in case of failure, is being responsable for shortages or delays.

Here you have a Logistics analysis of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. It’s just 7 minutes and it’s very interesting. I think this could be used for our professor to make some activities.

Amazon in the covid-19 crisis

22 January 2020, Saxony, Lampertswalde: At a distribution centre, an Amazon sorting employee carries packages into a delivery van. In the hall, parcels from the online mail order company’s European logistics centres are unloaded, sorted and delivered to customers in the Saxon state capital. Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images). Link

This entry is linked to Chloe’s post. As it is said in her link Amazon prioritizes the sale of costumer staples at the expense of consumer discretionary goods. On Tuesday, Amazon told its outsider merchants it would incidentally stop receipts and capacity of any merchandise other than necessities of sanitary supplies. It is public that Amazon is doing everything it can to meet the most significant shopper needs at the present time.

Amazon principales are key in the culture of the company, safety of its employees goes first, second it’s customer obsession, working backwards on behalf of the customer understanding their requirements and delivering the results. That is basically what Amazon workers do everyday, their environment is changing all the time so they are ready for unpredictable situations like the COVID-19 crisis.

Last I would like to say something about all the people working in the logistics sector these days. We all thank doctors, nurses, police officers for their hard work but let’s not forget about all the people at companies like Amazon and all the 3PL’s and couriers that give their best to deliver your orders everyday.

Rubber ducks and luxury cars: the strange world of containers lost at sea

What is a shipping container?

Standardized re-sealable transportation box for unitized freight handling with standardized equipment. Two most common sizes used in ground and sea (surface) transportation are (1) Twenty-footer (typical capacity 33.2 cubic meter or 1172 cubic feet, maximum payload 28180 kilogram or 62130 pounds) and (2) Forty-footer (typical capacity 67.7 cubic meter or 2392 cubic feet, maximum payload 28750 kilogram or 63380 pounds). The typical dimensions of a 20-foot container are: internal length 5.90 meter (19 feet 4 inches), internal width 2.35 meter (7 feet 9 inches), internal height 2.40 meter (7 feet 10 inches).

Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/shipping-container.html

Where do shipping containers go? If you click on the link you can enjoy an interactive map that shows the world traffic.

https://shippingandfreightresource.com/containers-lost-at-sea/

Here you see some data related to the containers shipped in Januray 2020.

Find more statistics at Statista

If you only have a few minutes please watch this video, it’s really worth it. It is really informative and entertainment to watch. The audio is in Spanish but you can watch it with English subtitles.

If you are curious about what happens to a shipping container once it sinks in the sea you can watch this video that explains how life colonizes the container.