Most warehouses pre-pick the orders meant for loading and keep them in the marshaling yard located near the loading bay for convenience. Labels meeting all these standards have to be fixed on all cartons or units. The exporter/shipper will have to ensure that he has the complete and correct details for this. Goods for stuffing have to be labelled according to the statutory requirements of the exporting as well as the importing countries. Goods such as electronics and other fragile items may require shock-proof packaging material to prevent them from damage during handling and transit. Goods may have to be palletized and shrink-wrapped or packed in cardboard or wooden cartons. Special packaging requirements apply to toxic materials, certain types of drugs, etc. Goods have to be packed and labelled as agreed between the buyer and seller and according to the requirements of the relevant authorities. The warehouse staff has to ensure that the goods are picked and kept ready for loading at the marshaling yard available nearest to the loading bay. When a single bay is used to stuff cargo in multiple containers it will take more time to complete the operation. This saves time but takes up extra space, equipment, and manpower. When there is more than one container for stuffing, the warehouse operations planner may arrange for more than one loading bay, MHE (Material Handling Equipment), and the personnel accordingly. The empty container is then positioned at the allotted loading bay, ready for loading. The MHE and manpower necessary for the operation must be ready by the time the container arrives at the warehouse. In such cases, the receiving staff has to check and confirm that the reefer arrives pre-cooled and is set at the required temperature. Any such omissions in planning have to be brought to the attention of the warehouse supervisor immediately by the loading staff for the necessary action.Ĭertain types of goods have to be loaded in pre-cooled reefers ( refrigerated containers). An example being detergents and food materials. There may be goods that are incompatible and therefore should not be loaded together in a container. The condition of the container along with its cleanliness and hygiene has to be ensured first. The process of stuffing starts when an empty container arrives at the warehouse yard, according to the daily stuffing plan and as agreed with the transporter or freight forwarder. Most commonly known as loading, stuffing also goes by many other names such as stowing, filling, etc. Missing the stack dates might result in the container being denied entry to the port and ultimately missing the sailing. Stack dates help the port to store, move, and load the containers onto the ship in an orderly manner. Stuffing a container on time is critical in meeting the port’s stack dates and more importantly in the sailing of the ship as per schedule. Stack dates may extend from 2 – 5 days within which the specific containers have to be delivered to the port. These dates are announced so that the shipper can send their loaded or empty containers to the port for loading onboard the ship on these dates. Stack dates are the dates announced by a port based on a ship’s ETA ( Expected Time of Arrival). Stuffing of a container will usually coincide with the stack dates announced by the port for a particular vessel that the container is supposed to take. Let us take a look at stuffing first.Įvery warehouse will have a daily plan for stuffing that is normally prepared by the warehouse operational staff. Here we have taken shipping cargo by sea, as the context. Several factors are to be considered while stuffing or destuffing cargo. However, they are also used when goods are loaded or unloaded from other modes of transport such as open trucks or large crates used to pack and transport goods. The words ‘stuffing’ or ‘destuffing’ is mostly used when it comes to shipping containers. It is the unloading of goods from a container.Ībout 85% of the 17 trillion USD worth of goods traded the world over in 2020 were transported in multimodal containers. Stuffing is the loading of goods into a container while destuffing is the opposite of stuffing. Stuffing and destuffing are just two among several such logistics terms. A newcomer to logistics can be baffled by the various terms used in the industry.
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