Crisis appears in daily business life more often than expected. In difficult times logistic managers have one goal: to find the fastest reliable solution. In order to manage the situation smoothly and with minimum effort they have to concentrate on handling all the involved parties, rather than contacting tens of carriers.
We choose 5 reasons why to have a freight forwarder as your emergency transport supplier.
- Always have a solution
Since freight forwarders have hundreds of qualified carriers, with thousands of vehicles all over Europe, a solution for any emergency will be found. - Emergency understanding
Since freight forwarder’s core business is critical situation handling, he will always know the importance of getting the goods on time and what means production interruption. - Ranking carriers
Working with systems and a large number of carriers and customers, allows a high quality carrier recruiting process. Every transport is evaluated and the carrier receives a certain ranking. For emergency transports there will be only high ranking carriers used. - One stop shop
By having a single contact person, a single transport monitoring and reporting system and one certain solution, the time allocated for transport during a crisis diminished. - Cost reduction
Although at a first sight using an intermediary might seem more expensive, when taken in consideration all the time saved, best price offered and all the additional costs cutted, the freight forwarding solution means at the end the most efficient one.