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Logistical Packaging:
For Safe Product Handling,
Movement and Storage
After reading the chapter, the students should be able to understand:
• Marketing packaging and logistical packaging
• Role of packaging in logistics
• ‘Unitization’ in logistical packaging
• Logistical packaging design considerations
During these days of cost optimization, every stage of physical distribution has considerable signifi -
cance. This signifi cance gets further augmented with variations in distribution channels, handling
methods, modes of transport, trans-shipments, storage conditions and extremes of environment. As
the distribution aspects of the products ar