Logistics

After the famine, the flood. The past two years have been blighted by supply shortages—with just-in-time retailers struggling to ship their goods, electronics manufacturers staring down a shortage of computer chips, and supermarkets…

“All the way”.AP Moeller-Maersk, one of the top three shipping companies in the world, has managed to live up to its tagline and sailed through the Covid-19 pandemic, stronger. In fact, 2021 was its most profitable year ever. It clocked…

The 5,000,000th shipping container rolls off the production line at a factory of Dong Fang International Container (Qidong) Co. Ltd. on June 2, 2021 in Jiangsu Province of China.SynopsisIndia is taking baby steps in shipping-container…

Containers being unloaded from a ship at Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone in Mundra, GujaratSynopsis“Containers are like currency. You have to bring them back,” says Anil Devli, CEO, Indian National Shipowners’ Association. But in…

Laborers carry boxes of Apples to be loaded onto trucks at a wholesale fruit market in Jammu and Kashmir, India on 10 October 2021.SynopsisSince the beginning of the lockdown last year, small fleet owners had been facing utilisation…

Zast cofounders Pervinder Singh Chawla (right) and Praveen Jain (left).SynopsisJust when the e-commerce industry was looking for an alternative to air shipments, Zast Logisolutions, which operates under the brand Onmove, came up with its…

“Logistics is not a sprint. It is a marathon.”Rajesh Yabaji, CEO of BlackBuck, Indian logistics’ newest unicorn and the country’s largest truck aggregator, is known for giving insightful aphorisms to his team. When it comes to chasing…

Image credit: Company FacebookSynopsisKnown for harnessing tech to solve logistics problems, Rivigo is grappling with its own challenges. In a drastic course correction, it has been hiring people with deep experience in the logistics…