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About Belma Mavruk

Belma is originally from Turkey, and she has been with MTS Logistics for 8 years. She currently holds a position as a Sales Executive. She graduated from Cukurova University, Business Administration in Adana. She has attended import and export classes at WTI and has 12 years experience working in the Logistics Industry.

Fun Fact: Belma does portrait sketching, and can sketch just about anything with a piece of charcoal or a pencil!

Trending Toys in 2012 – Report from the 109th International Toy Fair

February 20, 2012 By 2 Comments

The 109th International Toy Fair arranged by the Toy Industry Association was held at Jacob Javits Center in New York last week.  TIA is a not for profit trade association for producers and importers of toys and youth entertainment products sold in North America. This is the biggest Toy Show in Northern Hemisphere.

As duty called, I attended the toy fair and all right yes, it is one of my favorite trade shows, apart from the dynamic atmosphere which I love about the fairs, for some reason I walk faster to this one. Before it starts I love passing by the Hasbro showroom when they start to set up, as it is a heads up of the upcoming Toy Fair.

The action was going on in the entire tremendous 360,000 square feet show area with over 34000  visitors, more than 1000 exhibitors and  about 250 of them first time exhibiting companies. [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Business, Global Trade

Ports of the World Quiz

January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Happy Friday everyone!

How much do you know about ports around the world? Take the quiz and find out! Click on the port map below to get started:

Filed Under: Casual Friday Corner!, Quizzes

Child Labor Today Around the World

January 9, 2012 By 6 Comments

Have you ever thought about the people who have been a part of the manufacturing of the products you use? Especially the child labor.

If it was not for Lewis Hines, I do not think we would have a clear picture of the conditions the children worked in the factories in US a hundred years ago.

He used to go into the mills with the permission to take the pictures of the machines, eventually he left us the invaluable and concrete pieces of times when little children were besides those machines. That was America one hundred years ago. Today it seems the geography has shifted, as children in other places of the world have replaced them. It is estimated that there are 215 million children are at work today and 14 million of them are involved in direct manufacturing. [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Business, Regulations

Wood Packaging Material – Why The Hazard?

September 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
There are a numbers of steps that importers and exporters must take before starting the process of shipping their goods. One very important and sometimes overlooked step is using the right packaging; especially if the goods are being packed with wooden materials.

These look harmless enough, right? Wrong...

In September 2005, the US government announced that all wood packaging materials (WPM) coming into the country must be heat treated or fumigated with Methyl Bromide. Ever since then, importers that did not follow this rule have had to bear the consequences. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Global Trade, Regulations, Supply Chain Planning