DLA focuses more on fully loaded containers

Wednesday, June 27, 2012
   The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency is focusing on more fully utilizing space in ocean containers through consolidating shipments rather than splitting up shipments for individual customers, according to a report this week by Defense News .    The agency had often left containers as much as one-third empty in an attempt to avoid combining shipments from two different customers.    “More recently, planners have been consolidating goods for multiple endpoints, shipping these co...
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