Risks that need to be considered when designing shipment

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You have been placed in charge of designing packaging to ship 4,000 textbooks titled International Logistic from Memphis, TN to Soul, Korea. You have learned that the shipment is intermodal in that it involves air, sea, rail and truck. List some of the risks that need to be considered when designing the shipment.

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