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Digitising Freight Forwarding For A Seamless Supply Chain

FreightBro, a digital platform for freight forwarders and Journal of Commerce (JOC.com), a portal for news about container shipping & logistics have organised the latter's first ‘India Logistics Technology Summit’ on August 22 in Navi Mumbai.

Customer Centricity Key To All E-commerce Business Decisions

At the inaugural Ecommerce Logistics Summit 2019, stakeholders came together for compelling deliberations on issues facing the industry. Building business intelligence, keeping the customer at the centre, understanding regulation for smoother business were among the key points discussed by enthusiastic panel members.

Building Logistics Competencies For India's Pharma Exports

Over the last 30 years, India’s pharmaceutical industry has evolved from being almost non-existent to becoming a world leader in the production of high quality generic drugs. At the same time, medical science and medical technology have also advanced leaps and bounds with drugs becoming more sensitive than ever before. To counteract this complexity and create worldwide quality standards, Indian pharma players in tandem with their logistics counterparts are trying to ace cold chain standards by connecting quality with technology.

Booming Ecommerce Opportunities Discussed At Locus Event

FMCG players are looking towards rural India as their new growth avenue. FMCG 2025 deliberates on capturing the mind space of millennials who have a shorter attention span and different priorities than the older generations.

ACAAI Appoints Sunil Arora As President, Afzal Malbarwala As Vice-president

Sunil Arora of Delta Air Freight has been appointed as the president of the Air Cargo Agents Association of India (ACAAI) for 2019-2020.

The Ecommerce Rumble For Logistics

Delivery times for ecommerce goods are getting ever shorter with the number of same day and one or two hour delivery services rising. This has had a knock on effect on customer expectations. End recipients are demanding greater flexibility as well as more delivery options, fitting around their lifestyles, rather than around the operational processes of last mile delivery companies. With this, frequent peaks and troughs of demand have opened up many opportunities for ecommerce players and their logistics partners.

Mission Is To Digitise Freight Forwarders

Chennai-based startup FreightBro has been changing the face of digital logistics ever since 2016. It recently inked new business deals with Port of Wilhelmshaven and NAFL. Raghavendran Viswanathan, CEO & founder, FreightBro Logistics tells Shalini Nair about the industry knowhow while setting up a business, rolling out tailor-made solutions for the Dubai market and how collaboration is crucial for a blockchain to flourish.

Ushering In Air Cargo Africa 2019

The all-important ‘Air Cargo Africa 2019’ is a month away and here’s where the global air cargo fraternity will come together to interact with industry stalwarts and discuss the challenges concerning the industry and future of the sector. The highlight of the event remains the commodity-specific conferences that will provide an equal opportunity for high yield shippers/exporters, key policymakers and other stakeholders in the supply chain to deliberate on the opportunities and challenges that arise in the shipping of flowers, automotive, pharmaceuticals and e-commerce goods.

Auto SCM Summit 2018 Initiates A Dialogue To Speed Up Efficiency In Supply Chain

The automobile supply chain stakeholders and regulatory authorities came together to discuss the challenges and their expectations to enable efficiency in supply chain operations.

Adopting Technology & Global Benchmarking

Setting standards in cold chain processes and integration between small scale farmers were identified as keys to achieving the full potential of Africa’s flower and perishable industry at the recently held Flower and Perishable Logistics Africa conferences in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tech Race For A Seamless Last Mile Delivery

While digital transformation is primarily driven by rapidly changing technologies, its successful adoption depends on having a sound strategy. Enterprises who want to stay competitive need to work on scaling up their solutions along with introducing new innovations from time to time.

Pumping Energy Into India's Arterial Roads

India is moving ahead with a pan-nation scheme to improve the road network to bridge critical infrastructure gaps through corridor-based development. A timely completion can give a solid foundation for the ushering in of a better India.

Powering The Supply Chain Of Future

The first chapter of the Supply Chain Meetup in India, organised by Locus, brought together best minds of supply chain from various industries to discuss and deliberate on modern logistics issues and solutions from their respective sectors.

Plan To Reach One Million Partners In Next 5 Years

Bengaluru-based Shadowfax, started in 2015 with an aim to make instant deliveries a reality in India. At present, the plug-and-play platform caters to 3,500 pin codes across 200 cities and fulfils two lakh orders per day for food, grocery, fashion, pharmacy, furniture, e-commerce, and other sectors. Abhishek Bansal, co-founder & CEO speaks to Shalini Nair on their mission of connecting over a million micro entrepreneurs and suppliers in logistics industry, and expecting to grow 150 percent y-o-y.

Focusing More On Cross-Border Ecommerce

With more than 4 million square feet warehouse facility at 65 sites across India, Schenker India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DB Schenker is planning to expand its warehousing footprint to 7 million within the next three years. Vishal Sharma, CEO India and Indian subcontinent in interaction with Shalini Nair speaks about Bangladesh entity, evolving contract logistics in India and how cross-border ecommerce could enhance business prospects.

Evolving Solutions & Enduring Relationships

The change of its name from TVS Logistics Services to TVS Supply Chain Solutions (TVS SCS) was an important one. TVS SCS has become an integrated service provider, offering the entire realm of supply chain solutions. In an interaction with Reji John and Blessy Chettiar, R Shankar, CEO (India), TVS SCS, articulates about the evolutionary process in the 3PL freight space, need to reduce cost of logistics, consolidation in the supply chain and the role of automation in business.

India's Maritime Sector Forges New​​​​​​​ Opportunities

In a country where 95 percent of trading by volume and 70 percent by value is done through maritime transport, the importance of ports and terminals is significant. Since the country has the advantage to engage in trade and commerce through sea routes, the Indian maritime sector is constantly on the lookout for technologies and advancements to develop ‘smart ports’. Technologies such as real time track and trace, facilitating paperless transactions, big data, are all helping the industry to enhance security, lower the cost and deliver more for less.

E-commerce Thrust for Air Express

With the burgeoning e-commerce sector and other new age industries in India, the air express industry is turning out to be a pivotal segment for enhancing exports, especially in the SME segment.

Uncluttering Intra-City Logistics With Technology

Logistics marketplace ‘Porter’ deals in tech-enabled intra-city logistics. The online marketplace offers mini-trucks (LCVs) to SMEs, small businesses and individuals on demand as well as on fixed arrangement basis. Founded in 2014 by three IIT graduates Pranav Goel, Uttam Digga and Vikas Chaudhary, the company seeks to eliminate the inefficiencies existing in the intra city logistics market with the use of its proprietary technology platform. The company has raised Rs 35 crore in Series A funding from Sequoia, Kae Capital and other investors. Pranav Goel, Cofounder and CEO of Porter talks to Shreya Bhattacharya to reveal more…..

Working in India Is Something That I Will Never Forget

The story and success of Emirates Airline is so intertwined with the incredible development and the envious growth of Dubai as a cosmopolitan city that keeps setting new global benchmarks in urban development and living. The airline has achieved phenomenal growth in the three decades that it has been in operation.

Warehouse Automation Paving A Smarter Path To Growth

Warehouses in india have gradually transitioned from being just godowns for storage to ulta-modern, state-of-the-art facilities. What is now revolutionizing the warehousing experience is the advanced level of automation as robotics, artificial intelligence and internet of things propel warehouse communication for quicker deliveries.

Kolkata Airport Cargo Gateway To North East And Beyond

Being one of the fifth busiest airports in India, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (formerly known as Dum Dum Airport) has recently started using solar energy for its day-to-day operations. Managed by Airports Authority of India (AAI), the airport has modernised its cargo facilities that resulted in an increase in cargo handling capacity.

indian pharma goes the extramile

the global pharmaceutical industry has maintained an upward growth trajectory despite regulatory changes, constant public scrutiny and high demand for temperature and time controlled shipments. in this fast evolving marketplace, india has established itself as a global manufacturing and research hub, in which a well-organized logistics and supply chain sector has played an important role.

Jupiter Group Acquires 60 Percent Stake In CEBBCO

Kolkata-headquartered Jupiter Group, which manufactures freight wagons, railway components and railway equipment at its integrated, state-of-the art facility in West Bengal has, along with its international partners, announced the acquisition of over 60 percent stake in Madhya Pradesh based company Commercial Engineers & Body Builders Co. Ltd. (CEBBCO).

FTWZS & Logistics Parks Fostering Growth

These are heady times for India’s logistics sector. as the country aspires to become a global powerhouse for manufacturing, government initiatives, unified tax reforms and increasing transparency give that extra edge to the sector. What’s more, free trade warehousing zones and logistics parks offer significant opportunities for collaboration and private sector investments.

Why 3PL Companies Must Consider Outsourcing To Logistics Partners

Have you ever wondered why a company should outsource its core competency? NISHITH RASTOGI argues the reasons.

Building Port Infrastructure To Boost Indian Exports

With the recent relaxation on cabotage laws for foreign vessels, there could be an increased utilisation of Indian ports as transshipment hubs, contributing positively to cargo traffic within India.

EbixCash Acquires Trucking Logistics Marketplace Routier

Ebix, a leading international supplier of on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial, healthcare and e-learning industries has announced that one of its India-based EbixCash subsidiaries has acquired a 67 percent stake in Routier, a Delhi-based B2B Marketplace for trucking logistics.

FIATA World Congress Paves Way For Collaboration; New Pacts Inked

The 52nd edition of International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) World Congress (FWC) 2018 held at Pullman Hotel, Aerocity, New Delhi from September 26-29 was attended by 1,200 delegates from more than 130 countries.

Filling The Gaps In Logistics Industry

Kushal Nahata, who bootstrapped fareye along with two of his batch mates, talks about transforming logistics and supply chain industry using digital tools and software as a service and address the gaps in the industry with innovative customer first solutions using automation and machine learning.