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Logistics and fulfilment

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September 2026

  1. Sectors 7 min read Consignment stock and loan sets for EU hospitals How consignment stock and surgical loan sets work for EU hospitals, what the MDR asks on implant cards and UDI, and what the warehouse does in between.

August 2026

  1. Logistics and fulfilment 8 min read Shipping lithium batteries from an EU warehouse How ADR classes lithium batteries, what packing, marking and training a warehouse needs, and the EU Batteries Regulation dates that apply to sellers.
  2. Logistics and fulfilment 6 min read Serving Spain and Portugal from one stock One EU stock can serve Spanish and Portuguese buyers together. The VAT rules for B2B and consumer sales, Spanish labels, parcels and returns.
  3. Logistics and fulfilment 7 min read Pan-European FBA or your own EU stock Pan-European FBA spreads stock across Amazon's EU centres and needs a VAT number in each storage country, compared with one stock base and OSS.

July 2026

  1. Logistics and fulfilment 6 min read Last-mile delivery across the EU What EU consumer law says about delivery: the 30-day default, when risk passes to the buyer, when the withdrawal clock starts, and what to set with carriers.
  2. Logistics and fulfilment 7 min read Lot, batch and expiry control in an EU warehouse FEFO or FIFO, batch records and traceability: which EU rules call for lot control for food, cosmetics, consumer products and medical devices, and why.
  3. Logistics and fulfilment 6 min read Shipping from South America to European ports Which carrier services link South America with European ports, what reefer cargo needs, and why the port of arrival shapes release.
  4. Logistics and fulfilment 7 min read Parcel, pallet or groupage: moving stock from Portugal How to choose between parcel, pallet network, groupage and full truck when stock held in Portugal serves consumers, retailers and distributors in Europe.