General cargo handling definition
General cargo handling. Regarding general cargo (goods, merchandise, commodities), also referred to as break bulk cargo, almost 90 percent of all such cargo in most liner cargo trades today is containerized. General cargo is handled by cranes on the quay, floating cranes or by the ship's own cargo gear (deck cranes, derricks, etc.). Storage: Storage is a process of storing products, e.g. raw materials, semi-finished or finished products at different times and space during all the phases of the logistics process. Storage and inventory are closely related aspects of logistics, in that while warehousing refers to the storage process of products, inventory deals with the quantity of products stored. Storage facilities are needed because: