NOV - JANAutobusiness outlook8By Joe Mare, CSCP, Sr. Manager of Logistics, Kem KrestCHALLENGING STATUS QUO PROCESSES IN LCL SHIPPINGWe all remember back in 2020-21 when supply chains were all bottled up due to the numerous delays in transportation. Ships were anchored off the coast of California for days and weeks on end, waiting for the ports to clear for the containers to be offloaded, only to have additional delays on the railroads to inland ports in the heartland of America. Once the containers are around at a port such as Chicago, it takes days for the container to be recovered and stripped, allowing the local trucker to recover the freight to deliver to the end customers.End Customers never realized how complex supply chains were and how fragile they could be if something happened at any of the links in the process. Most companies use a global freight forwarder to arrange the entire logistics process of arranging pickup in a foreign country, arranging transportation to the US, and then arranging final mile delivery to the customers. There are many good forwarders out there, but they needed to have the experience, staff, or time to look for alternate options that were in the best interest of their customers.At Kem Krest, we faced potential customer issues if we did not devise a solution to reduce the total transit time on Joe MareIN MY OPINION
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