Trucks, Transporters, Shipping, Ocean and Air Freight, Supply Chain

Safety tips, covid19, precautions, best practices, social distancing, personal protection equipment PPE The global Pandemic Covid -19 has brought the world to its knees and … Continue reading “Better Safe than Sorry – (Tips and best practices to adopt rejoining office, workplace, warehouse)”

Covid19 pandemic has unleashed an un-precedented situation and affected everyone around the globe, disrupting routine life. In the absence of an effective counter in the … Continue reading “Tips to maintain your truck / trailers during Lockdown and keep it roadworthy”

The cataclysmic black swan covid -19 pandemic has literally brought the world to its knees. With no known vaccine, the infections and deaths rising in … Continue reading “Digital freight platform – The Logistics solution for graded withdrawal of Lockdown #logistics”

Nobody saw this Black swan coming. These are extraordinary and unprecedented times and every sector has being affected by the COVID 19 virus aftermath and … Continue reading “Top 7 tips managing Logistics during Covid 19 Crisis”

India has one of the highest ratio of Cost of Logistics to the GDP at 14%. The Government ministries and various Industry bodies have been … Continue reading “Top 9 reasons for increased cost & inefficiencies in Logistics and Supply Chain”

Logistics and Supply Chain sector is highly fragmented, unstructured and has a huge overhang of legacy systems and process in force even today. Possibly in … Continue reading “Top 10 reasons why Companies, Shippers or Cargo Owners choose Digital Freight Platforms”

Earlier to 1970’s hazardous and non-hazardous liquid cargo used to be transported in drums, flexibags within containers. This method of transportation was not standardised  was … Continue reading “Understanding Liquid Cargo Transportation using ISO Tanks”

At the growth rate between 7-7.5%  India’s GDP is at $2.5tr  and is expected to double within the next 10 years. Over 40.5mn registered and … Continue reading “MSME or Startups – Is Logistics a constant challenge for you ? Some Key considerations !”

Baltic Exchange based in London has created the Baltic Freight Index stands for shipping and trade index. Globally people in cross border trade use it … Continue reading “Understanding the Baltic Freight Index – Ocean Freight”

Shifting or relocating a home, office, warehouse or plant has always been a challenging and daunting task. What with un-organised, unskilled and unreliable players wooing … Continue reading “Movers and Packers – Changing paradigm in India”

In the recent GST council meeting on 24th Dec 2018, a large number of items classified under the 28% slab was rationalized to the 18% … Continue reading “18 months of GST Implementation, Reality check on-ground”

How 3PL / 4PL Logistics players can benefit from Digital Logistics Platform An estimated 60% volumes in Logistics and Supply Chain activities in the country … Continue reading “How 3PL 4PL players can benefit out of Digital Logistics Platform”

Relocation – Require Movers and Packers – Here are some tips ! Moving goods or relocation can be quite overwhelming or draining experience for people … Continue reading “Relocation – Top 3 Tips For Packing and Moving House”

MARINE INSURANCE / TRANSIT INSURANCE – IGNORE AT YOUR OWN PERIL International or cross border trade has its beginnings in ancient times, whereby people began … Continue reading “Marine Insurance”

Stress-free, peace of mind transportation using Online Truck freight booking platform Individuals or enterprises or companies will at various points of time need to shift … Continue reading “Peace of Mind Cargo & Goods Transportation, with Stress-Free Deliveries”

#Reforms #Investments #Infrastructure #Technology #Transformation The Government in the last few months took some bold decisions to implement the GST (One nation, one market) reforms, … Continue reading “The future of Logistics and SupplyChain In India”

“India jumps 19 places in the World Bank Logistics Index “ screamed the headlines carried by the mainstream media and the business publications when the … Continue reading “Logistics performance Index -2018 – All is not Well with INDIA slipping on the League Table”

Festival times are around the corner in India and elsewhere in the world. August through December witnesses some of the highest goods and cargo being … Continue reading “BestTransportationCost BestFreightCost – Tip – Online Transportation Platforms”

Operating a Logistics or Supply Chain business can be quite taxing and a complex affair. Stakeholders in logistics such as Transporters, Warehouse owners, Packaging setups, … Continue reading “#Unravel #Finance and #BorrowingOptions for #Logistics & #SupplyChainbusiness”

Activity FF NVOCC     Freight Forwarders Non Vessel Owning Common Carrier Shipper/Carrier Acts as agent to/for the shippers Acts as carrier to the shippers and … Continue reading “Understanding Freight Forwarders and NVOCCs”

As truck upon truck hurtled along the highways carrying cargo or goods from one location to other, one would have wondered what would have been … Continue reading “Unboxing the Undisputed Beast on the roads #Trucks #Trailers”

Personnel working in the Logistics sector or even layman looking at Trailers carrying containers would be intrigued with the series of numbers, alpha numeric numbers … Continue reading “Understanding Container Markings”

In a democracy, every citizen or institution can exercise their fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression in a non violent manner. Citizens may … Continue reading “How should Logisticians deal with Transporter Strikes”

The Government has made the E-way bill mandatory for all inter-state movement of goods over Rs.50,000/-, from the 1st February 2018. A consignment not having … Continue reading “E Way Bill – How To Create an E Way Bill Through Valueshipr”

Under the new GST regime, the new frontier for Transportation and Logistics “E-way bill” is set out to be rolled out effective 1st February 2018. … Continue reading “E-Way Bill:: De-Mystifying the Filing requirements”

IS YOUR TRUCK GENERATING THE RIGHT REVENUE? WANT MORE, HERE ARE SOME TIPS Trucks have played a very important role in helping connect and transport … Continue reading “Strategies to Increase Revenue in Truck Services – Valueshipr”

Early entrants into Logistics and supply chain and even people with experience in the stream often get confused or unable to co-relate the various containers … Continue reading “Understanding Pallets, Containers, boxes, Drums in Logistics”

The container market is starting to emerge from one of the worst industry downturns with demand outgrowing capacity for the second consecutive quarter. This is … Continue reading “Freight Industry Visible Trends 2017 – Valueshipr”

Trade routes have developed since ancient times to transport goods from places of production to places of commerce. Scarce commodities that were only available in … Continue reading “Historic Transportation Routes”

India is well connected to some of its immediate neighbours like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh by a fairly good network of Roadways. The total trade between … Continue reading “SAARC Countries Transportation Of Goods & Cargo to Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan”

That un-suspecting transfer order, change of residence, shifting household, shifting of office, relocating factories or warehouses, furniture, shifting material from one location to other are … Continue reading “How to Choose the Best Movers & Packers in India”

Logistics (of which transportation is a part) is the detailed and effective management of flow of goods from the point of sourcing until the point … Continue reading “Online Cargo Transporters and the Marketplace Technology”

The thought of transporting or moving goods, cargo or material whether personal effects, raw material or finished goods from one location to the other is … Continue reading “Benefits of Online Truck Hiring Services”

Budget 2017 – 2018 Impact on Infrastructure, Transportation and Logistics Perhaps for the first time in history an integrated infrastructure, transportation and logistics budgetary plan … Continue reading “Budget Impact 2018 Logistics & Transportation Service Companies”

Do you have the exact change? Chutta paisa hai na? Rs.2000 ka change mein kaha se layega? Baad mein paisa lautaa dena. How will I … Continue reading “Impact of Demonetization From Truck Service Provider’s Wallet – Valueshipr”

In the World Bank’s latest Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report titled “Connecting to Complete 2016”, the Logistics Sector in India climbed 19 places, moving up … Continue reading “Impact of GST on Logistics Service Providers in India – Valueshipr”

Software Technology has been around for decades now and its ability to ‘eat’ the world- to disrupt and re-organize traditional industries has been evident and … Continue reading “How Marketplace Technology Startup are impacting the Logistics sector”

India, a $2 trillion economy now, is estimated to double by 2023-24. (NITI Aayog, CMIE). At the going rate of growth India is marching ahead … Continue reading “Transportation & Logistics Sector at the Cusp of Transformation”

I distinctly remember that warm afternoon, constant honking of cars, bikes on the road as it was blocked by this truck helping a household move … Continue reading “Story of a Top Startup in Logistics Transportation Services in India”

It was 2 AM in the morning when we place the call to Pareshbhai, the driver of this 9 Ton truck on which we wanted … Continue reading “Truck Tracking System – Track Consignment, Goods & Cargo – Valueshipr”