Highlights: A customer requested separate deliveries of two “roomfuls” of giant data servers to two cities more than 250 miles apart in Japan. Successful delivery would require precision and special care to handle sensitive, oversized shipments valued at more than $12...
ICAT Performance Helps Hoverbike Soar at Auto Show
Highlights: Detroit auto show organizers turned to ICAT Logistics DTW when a Japanese tech company chose the Motor City for the world introduction of its innovative flying bike. The assignment called for safe handling, tight security, trade show know-how, testing, a...
What to do when an Oversize Naval Shipment to Japan is Stopped: Improvise
Highlights: A Naval Japan-bound shipment of two huge cargo pieces was going nowhere fast in California, held up by screeners at a Los Angeles air carrier. At ICAT Logistics Detroit, one of our import-export specialists was already in motion, diagnosing the problem,...
Sweating the Details Essential for Avoiding Dumping Penalties
Highlights: A Tier 1 auto supplier was alarmed when its imported steel was flagged for potential violations of anti-dumping regulations. The supplier found that its purchasing agent, in a risky mix of zeal and haste, had ordered from steelmakers in China and India...
Lacking Papers, Overseas Freight Was Dead in the Water
Highlights: $39,000 X-ray machine went poof... Rely on logistic experts like ours when shipping freight... "We're there when you need us..." Challenge: A Pennsylvania electronics equipment manufacturer recently learned an expensive lesson about international shipping...
Herman Moore’s Team 84 & ICAT Logistics Detroit Make the Ultimate Play
Highlights: 16,000 cartons, 475,000 pounds, and one million PPE's moved from China to Michigan... "I didn't have to lose sleep. They took charge and took the risk out.." Saved Team 84 more than $400,000 in import fees... Challenge: As the global pandemic reached a...
For an Auto Supplier: Return to Sender
Highlights: ICAT loses a client to cut costs - but not for long When the bigger company failed, ICAT was ready to take the lead... Special requirements for shipping steel into Asian markets... "I anticipate that we will be working together for many years to come.."...
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