Many businesses such as retail merchandising, automotive servicing medicine, ships and aviation spares, project management - to name just a few - now require time-definite delivery and advance notice of products in transit to operate effectively as they have skilled teams on hand who cannot be left idle waiting items. In fulfilling these urgent requirements, our industry has to be painstaking in ensuring that there is no corner-cutting in the vital area of cargo security procedures, addressed in a separate article.