shipping control

"Tides are likely to rise significantly above the normal high tide mark with damaging waves and very dangerous coastal inundation." Strong squalls were already blowing in excess of 120 kilometres per hour at Port Hedland, and the port authority said the shipping control tower had been closed and all personnel evacuated.

It might also have to take on a shipping control function in order to reduce transit speeds and increase vessel separation distances.

MBA's main warehouse is being equipped with two RFID reader gates to enable order and shipping control. UPM Raflatac RFID tags will be applied to products in stock and replace conventional bar coded labels.

Actual shipping control was accomplished by stationing a radio-equipped harbor control vessel in port.

Where they're headed is indicated by Atochem's eight-page Supplier Quality Survey form, which solicits weighted numerical ratings for each vendor's quality-management philosophy, raw-material control, manufacturing process control, laboratory procedures control, packaging and shipping control, delivery, and invoicing.

In Hurley's view, the new arrangements, particularly the Shipping Control Committee, which managed 1,256 vessels, had a dramatic impact.

In some facilities, workers in shipping control the arrival of AGVs through a system of call buttons.