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Germany has been one of the leading countries in global agricultural trade for many years. In 2022, it ranked fourth in terms of exports (behind the USA, Brazil and the Netherlands)*. The most important third country markets included the USA and China**; destinations that require weeks of food transport by container. There is regularly a high risk of moisture damage caused by condensation. Read here how a food manufacturer with worldwide shipping protects its goods from this on the way to their country of destination.

* Quelle: UN Comtrade

** Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt

54 percent of all online orders are placed with Amazon (own-account and marketplaces)*. Depending on the product category and payment method, in some cases every second parcel in Germany is returned to the respective e-commerce retailer**. A large business segment. Especially for Marketplace retailers who lack the necessary capacities for their own returns management, it is a common model to hand over the returns to resellers. Before they can sell the goods themselves, they have to be stored temporarily - e.g. in a freight container. To protect the goods from damage due to high humidity, a ThoMar customer uses SeaDry container desiccants. The success of this measure is confirmed by a data logger that continuously records the climate in the container. If the desiccants are replaced in good time after saturation, the humidity remains within a non-critical range.

Do you also use containers for storage, temporarily or permanently? Get in touch with us. Our advisors will recommend the right SeaDry variant for you and have further advice for optimally securing your goods.

*Online Monitor 2024, HDE Handelsverband Deutschland

**Forschungsgruppe Retourenmanagement / Universität Bamberg

1st place Belgium, 2nd place Germany, 3rd place Netherlands. This is not a prediction of the outcome of the European Football Championship, but a ranking of the countries with the largest beer export volumes in the 2022 observation period (according to online statistics platform Statista). Read here how a brewery with worldwide shipping protects its sales packagings from moisture damage during the weeks-long transport by container overseas.

Just under 160,000 Germans emigrated to a non-EU country in 2021, according to Statista ("Immigration and emigration in EU countries 2021", 3 January 2024). Destinations included Switzerland and Norway, but also faraway countries such as the USA, Australia, China and Canada. Such a big move overseas needs to be carefully prepared. In our latest article "How to protect relocation goods from moisture damage with desiccants", we provide valuable tips to prevent moisture damage to the cargo. In this way, you protect your entire household goods during the weeks- to months-long transfer in the container through different climate zones. As a result, nothing will soon stand in the way of an unclouded start in your dream country.

Whether long timber, short timber, solid wood, wood-based materials or even a complete wooden house: wood of all kinds is exported and imported in large quantities, some of it in freight containers. At the same time, wood is a particularly sensitive cargo, as it reacts directly to fluctuations in ambient humidity, among other things. Read here how a wood processing company protects sawn timber in transport racks from moisture damage during the weeks-long transfer period.