Shipping times

Storage tanks should be sized according to maximum feed rate, shipping time required, and quantity of shipment. Tanks should generally be sized for 1.5 times the quantity of shipments. A ten-day to two-week supply should be provided to allow for unforeseen shipping delays. 

It is strongly recommended that sample collection be linked to intercomparisons of field-based methodologies by different groups of investigators. This would help justify the expense of the required ship time, and satisfy a critical analytical need as real-time methodologies become more widely used by oceanographers interested in small-scale temporal and spatial variability. It would also mean that a large amount of supplemental information would be available about the collected samples. 

Figure 2). In either case, the 8.28-hour half-life of Fe-52 (1 ) presents a problem with respect to the delivery of a significant quantity of the radioisotope to a potential user. Because of the shipping time involved, a factor of four to eight times more Fe-52 must be shipped in order to provide the user with a desired quantity. Therefore, a substantial amount of Fe-52 must be produced and recovered. 

The problem of access to ship time is more difficult for commercial enterprises than for academic ocean scientists, the latter having some fraction of institutional ship time earmarked for their use. For specialized ocean instrumentation, which usually has a small market, the cost of development is prohibitive if ship time is paid for directly. As is the situation for development of instruments by academics, a large portion of the ship time... 

The k value also can be used to predict how much water could be filtered in a given water mass Figure 8, Curve C) for a given amount of ship time. For example, it would be possible to filter substantially more than 25,000 L of Sargasso Sea water deeper than 300 m in 5-6 h. In contrast, the point of diminishing returns is reached for the more particle-rich deep slope water in 3 h with just 10,000 L filtered sampling of the near-surface waters is essentially complete within 1-2 h. 

The various modes of transport of specimens influence the shipping time and cost. Priority mail service is usually adequate within the United States if a delay of up to 3 days is acceptable. Express mail service ensures dehvery within 24 hours, but it is available only between certain cities. Small-package service is available from many airlines, as is service by bus lines and train. 

Which mode or production is utilized dep ds on several factors. The length of time for production, separation and purification processes, the time from production to shipping, and the shipping time determine the half-life with which it is practical to work. The type of experiment and equipment available for handling and measurement determines the preferable decay type and intensity. All these factors must be considered in determining which nuclide is to be used. For example, if in an experiment requiring sodium tracer these aspects indicate the necessity of a time of at least several weeks, the use of... 

A practice developed to minimize customer inventory. The supplier provides the product, at predetermined intervals, so that it can proceed directly to the customer s assembly line. This practice demands exceUent quality control and production schedules. Customers who use JIT must demand the same care and treatment from their own suppliers. Suppliers and customers are usuaUy located within a few hours shipping time of each other. 

As the climate warming causes the Arctic sea ice to thin, the Northern Sea Route can be used more intensively. So far the Route has been open for 2 months per year but researchers predict that that the time window will increase. The Northern Sea Route offers a route from Europe to the Pacific Ocean that is 14,000 km shorter compared to the current one, allowing reduced shipping time and associated costs. The ports in the Barents area are likely to become busier as more ships start to pass through. Obstacles still exist, as the coastline between Barents and the Bering Strait... 

Space ships, time machines, and electric rays or, nineteenth century science... 

At one extreme (the icebreaker reactor derivatives), the entire power plant is factory built on a barge which is towed to the customer s mooring site, anchored in a pre-prepared lagoon, and connected to a pre-installed power grid switchyard. Trans-ocean shipping times" (6 days for the Atlantic, 10 days for the Pacific) are so short that the logistics time interval for this class of plants could be no more than several months. Crew training and physical start-up tests are minimized because factory start-up tests are run and a trained Russian crew is assumed to arrive with the plant. 

One of the key considerations in the materials selection process is material availability and delivery time. This is especially true if a person/company has only a limited time for completing a part. Even without time constraints, materials engineers tend to use materials that are readily available. Similarly, the choice of a surface-engineering process is often based on process availability because poor logistics between the customer and surface treatment supplier can result in added shipping time and costs. 

Assembly fabrics and trims come together at the final assembly plant, which in this example is situated in the Caribbean. (Manufacturers situated within short shipping times of the US are favoured over Far East suppliers.) The plant has an ERP system that processes orders received electronically. Finished goods are assembled and bar-coded by store prior to despatch. All suppliers to the apparel retailer use compatible systems. 

RESPONSE TIME TO CUSTOMERS When selling physical products that cannot be downloaded, customer requests take longer to fulfill through online sales than in a retail store because of the shipping time involved. Thns, cnstomers who require a short response time may not use the Internet to order a product. There is no snch delay, however, for information goods. The Internet has facilitated almost instantaneons access to movies, music, and books in digital form. 

Going back to the lengthy shipping times for products made overseas, one should note that there is another pitfall involved. Too many buyers overlook the fact that this delay requires more working capital than would be the case for locally made products. Why First of all, most overseas suppliers want payment before the goods leave their factory for the docks and ocean delivery from Asia to the United States usually takes eight to ten weeks. 

In sampling offshore habitats, the requirement for ship time introduces an element of sample planning that is perhaps not seen in other enviromnents. Cruise... 

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