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Category: Shipping & planning

Good shipments are planned weeks ahead. These guides help you choose between air, sea and road, pick the right container, pack and palletise for export, plan around peak seasons and organise storage and distribution, with a worked example for olive oil from Sfax. When your plan is ready, we turn it into a booking by sea, road or air.

Shipping & planning5 min read

Exporting olive oil from Sfax: what to plan

Bulk flexitanks and ISO tanks or bottles and tins on pallets: how to plan packaging, temperature, documents and labelling when you export olive oil from Sfax.

Shipping & planning4 min read

Container types: which one fits your cargo

20-foot, 40-foot, high cube, reefer, open top, flat rack and tank: the main container types, their approximate sizes and the cargo each one suits.

Shipping & planning4 min read

Planning around peak shipping seasons

Pre-Christmas peak, Chinese New Year, Ramadan and Eid, European August and the olive oil harvest: how to plan shipments around the busiest times of year.