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When you’re shipping freight to Hawaii, most businesses adopt one of two approaches: Send everything to a central warehouse in Oahu and distribute inventory to neighboring islands from there. Leverage direct service to send cargo straight to Maui, the Big Island and Kauai, without going through Oahu. After nearly 15 years of experience with Hawaii freight, our team has discovered that the second approach, direct service, can save companies up to 25% on their Hawaii freight costs. If you’re not already using direct service, now might be the right time to reassess your supply chain and create a new efficiency that can directly impact your...

Updated 05/30/23   For many consumers, buying a protection plan is an immediate, hard “no.” Shoppers quickly calculate the risk of damage to their new purchase and decide it’s not worth the extra cash. This fuzzy and rushed math performed at the cash register might be fine for a new stereo but should be taken more seriously when a company’s inventory is on the line. If you think about marine cargo insurance just like a consumer electronics protection plan, you can get yourself in trouble. After all, for many companies, significant loss and damage to goods can significantly impact a bottom line. Why Do You...

Ever had to fly standby? It’s not great. However, for many situations, it is the only solution to get you home to your family. Similar to standby for passenger flights, deferred air freight can be a perfect solution for shippers. By building a schedule that can withstand a few days of extra transit time, shippers get the convenience of air freight, at a fraction of the cost. If your supply chain can afford the slight shift in scheduling, the benefits are hard to beat.   Serious Price Difference Many shippers are turned off by the steep prices of traditional air freight service levels. Expedited or...

Cutting through the noise of the internet can be grueling. Never-ending twitter feeds, countless blog posts on the best dog shoes and Facebook updates from your childhood neighbor Todd distract from discovering meaningful data and ideas. However, the immense amount of information available to anyone with wi-fi or a cellular connection is exhilarating. It can help inform your business strategy and ultimately increase your revenue. The Approved Freight team spends a lot of time researching in order to develop the best logistics solutions for our clients. We know how difficult it can be to find great and reliable information. We’ve compiled a list of 8...

What separates an amateur from a professional is not a lack of mistakes or problems. Instead, it is the ability to recover from these mistakes and move forward in achieving your goal. In project management, complications are a major part of the process. These problems can leave even the most battle-tested project managers curled up under a desk in the fetal position. Check out our list of 10 Things Everyone Hates About Project Management and get a glimpse at some of the solutions we’ve found for each. 1. No Control Nothing puts a damper on project management like waiting on a third (or fourth, or...

Living in Guam is expensive. On average, Guam residents spend 42% more on goods than Americans on the Mainland.  An extreme example of the disparity is the price of a gallon of milk, which runs at $11.09 – nearly a 250% premium on a daily essential!  You probably won’t be buying your year’s supply of dairy and shipping it back, so what about all the other stuff? If you are looking to purchase fun items like electronics, new threads, and home goods on the Mainland, you’ll need a cost-effective method to ship them back to Guam.  Let’s take a look at what you can expect,...