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How the Covid-19 Crisis is Moving the Shipping Industry Towards a Spot Driven Rate Procurement Model and Reduce Cost through Shipsy’s Inquiry Module

Shipsy

The spread of the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 is affecting the shipping industry in unprecedented ways. As a large number of containers are stuck in transshipment and countries have put restrictions on movement of ships to contain the spread of the virus, it has lead to a mismatch in the demand and supply in the market.

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Driving Sustainable Supply Chain Change

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

A procurement professional I recently spoke to said “it’s coming at us thick and fast, so we’ve got to be ready for it.” Greener Shopping and Shipping: The Rise of Carbon Neutral e-Commerce Delivery. MORE FROM THIS EDITION. Driving Sustainable Supply Chain Change.

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How Floranow is Maximizing Customer Delight With Locus

Locus

Based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Floranow is an online B2B floral marketplace that connects buyers to growers from across the world, including Holland, Kenya, Thailand, Columbia and China. With a passion and desire to resolve all this and more, he founded Floranow in 2016. Digitalizing the last-mile to bring 99.5%

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Avoid Hidden Charges on International Shipments

Shipsy

Shipsy’s rate procurement software comes powered with intelligence around local charges, intelligent reference rates and multiple dashboards around cost saving and vendor participation. Shipsy maintains a sync with all shipping lines and ensures local charges are updated on actuals. September 30, 2020. June 25, 2020.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Abu Dhabi, UAE.: Swinburne University of Technology. /

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

High capacity oxygen tankers were airlifted from UAE. Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir. Australia too sent immediate support package of ventilators, oxygen tanks and PPE Kits.

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Port Congestion Update – There growth in the number of containers cleared at Nhava Sheva and Mundra

Shipsy

With regards to blank sailings continued by shipping lines for the 1st week of June 2M and The Alliance have cancelled couple of sailings mainly in the transpacific trade lane. Digitize your shipment operations and save upto 35% man hours in maintaining your shipping data through our integrations with 40+ shipping lines.