The Tradetec Companies » Trade Show Freight http://www.tradeshowimprovement.com trade show improvement specialists Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:05:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Saving On Trade Show Freight http://www.tradeshowimprovement.com/saving-on-trade-show-freight/ http://www.tradeshowimprovement.com/saving-on-trade-show-freight/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:33:15 +0000 admin http://www.chicagotradeshowexhibits.com/?p=234 Chicago has many trade shows coming up in the fall line up, Tradetec Skyline can help reduce your trade show shipping and drayage costs. Easily and simply with custom modular solutions.

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There are a few basic items to make sure you keep track of with Trade Show Shipping Costs here are a few to put on your checklist:

Shipping Addresses

  • Hanging Signs -- Advance warehouse address
  • Advance Warehouse -- List all cut off dates for receipt of shipment with address
  • Show-Site -- List targeted inbound date/time with address including the marshalling yard information
  • Small Package Address -- If you do not want small packages being sent to the show hall, list the hotel address

Shipping Inventory

  • From the Exhibit House -- List basic exhibit components
  • From Corporate Warehouse -- List products, equipment, supplies and spare parts
  • From Corporate Office -- List all collateral, supplies, graphics, etc
  • Hand Carried Items -- List items and person responsible
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Material handling includes the unloading of your exhibit materials, storing them at the advance warehouse and delivering to the booth space, the handling of empty containers to and from storage, and removing of material from you booth for reloading onto outbound carriers when the show closes. It should not be confused with the cost to ship your exhibit materials to and from the convention or event. You have two options for shipping your exhibit, literature and promo material to the show, advance warehouse or directly to show site.

Material Handling Charges

Charges from show decorators like Freeman, GES or Champion are be based on the weight of your shipment. Each shipment received is considered separately. The shipment weight will be rounded up to the next 100 pounds. Each 100 pounds is considered one “cwt.” (one hundred weight).

There is a 200 lb minimum charge for each shipment weighing less than 200 lbs. The average “cwt” charge ranges from $50 to $150 for straight time.

This means that one carton of literature shipped in to the show separately and not consolidated will be charged as if it was a 200 pound skid and you will be charged somewhere is the range of $100 to $600 for material handling. You may have shipped that last minute carton(s) thinking you were actually saving money by using UPS or FedEx instead of a trade show common carrier like Associated Global or Roadway.

What can you do to save money?

It is very important to consolidate your shipments and make sure all literature and promo items ship to the trade show in one shipment, via truck, to advance warehouse preferably with your exhibit.

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