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portsmith international port is the gateway for much of the fresh fruit ease

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in the UK

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with up to seventy percent of all the ban on assault in the country

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coming fire Portsmouth the board is owned and operated by the City Council

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which also owns MD limited a specialist fruit

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handling company we look after the importation of

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might many fruits for various large for companies just fights

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and East Del Monte dole and primary that would be bananas pineapples

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wheels have oranges tomatoes above everything

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times I we look at the distribution the handling here in Port

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I'm a distribution to to depose we have five

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lease for bus was a week sometimes five I and

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the raw full to the brim and the free 10 tonight within a few days

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so it's always very very busy reporters invested heavily in new warehouses and

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equipment

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and also in bespoke IT systems we've developed some

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trucking try system primarily because more more more customers are bringing in

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cargo

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passes saddam scannable so each palette will have its own barcode

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on individual number which we can scan in support

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and I'm a full traceability of that pilot which is important for us in terms

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of distribution was also important for the customers as well

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full traceability back what from farms through to

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the the supermarkets when the bus arrives yet the hatches

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I'm so the discharged crimes will take the Parkside from from the vessel

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and move them into the warehouse as the each pallet goes into a house we scan it

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into the warehouse and into an individual rack so we have traceability

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of finding at an individual palette at any given time

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in that rocking then I am when a putback will rise to load that

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pilots who back onto the by and we'll pick the pilots

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according to the needs about life so it will scan again

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each pallet on tobacco vehicle and said on its way

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every palate scandal the vessel so

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we know exactly where that path has been wracked I we know exactly when that

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Palace the loaded for the lorries ready for that I was ready for delivery

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I'm we obviously retraces for

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throughout the complex for source Columbia Valley

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Costa Rica wherever right to sleep in one supermarket will

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the first use candid every stage of the journey

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units arriving at fights right thing and distribution center in Basingstoke

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just hours after the others were unloaded from the ship

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now any company shipping to Portsmouth from

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anywhere on the planet can check exact whereabouts if it's fresh produce

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at anytime using the Internet not only do we we have an internal system for for

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tracking the

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that the pilots we all also develop some a web portal

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which is a window into our system to show the distribution of

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palette surveyors customer so I can see when the county have on stock

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I what's gone I on what I on what vehicle

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and on what reference they can plan better I

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for their collections from the port so I'm if they have constants on supply for

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information on the stock levels

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they can make decisions based on that for

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when went to collect aunts knots and vehicles in that are necessary

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I which tracks congestion it also means staff at the port receive a lot less

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phone calls and faxes at all times the day and night

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checking on the progressive shipments with such a transparent system

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there's a massive reduction mistakes and confusion

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this lustful connections trucks can turn up just in time

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so there's less downtime logistics companies can better plan their lives

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reports with international port received European match funding for the system

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which is a pilot study that's part of the worst close project

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a collaboration between ports logistics companies

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and academics looking to improve the flow of freight through Europe

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the main driver behind its walls making the process more efficient

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and also making it more sustainable but certainly it is a selling point for the

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port between say that we had a

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system whereby food can be tracked might from the the farms in the Bahamas

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white search the foot leaving the supermarkets here that has various

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advantages not only for the shippers for the farmers

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and also that the right-wing centers so yes it is a unique see

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unique selling point for the poor has helped to some develop

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port in terms of bringing new customers in because we

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we can show them this IT solution we have but no seen anything like it before

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and a very keen to come to us and start using that I mean like suffice

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don't want to dollar or hou