End-to-end logistics services available for export of fruit to Europe
For the first time, Maersk has offered end-to-end cold chain logistics solution for high quality grapes’ exporters from Western India thus improving the overall turnaround time into North Europe by four days.
Gearing up for the peak grape season, Maersk enables booking management, offers on-land and ocean transportation, cargo tracking, customs clearance amongst other services as a part of the end-to-end solution.
The movement of grapes is being done in refrigerated containers (reefers) with Remote Container Management solution ‘Captain Peter’ that monitors atmospheric conditions inside the container and provides visibility of the same to the customers. Maersk is also deploying a Reefer technician to overlook contingencies throughout the journey.
“By providing a one-stop-shop solution, we are enabling the farmers to focus on what they do best, leave the logistics to us and not get bothered by any challenges that they might face in the journey of their produce from their farms to their customers,” affirmed Steve Felder, Managing Director, Maersk South Asia.
Maersk is not only able to cut down on the total time required for taking the cargo of grapes from the grape capital Nashik in India’s Maharashtra state to North Europe but also add reliability in preserving quality of the produce. With the elimination of intermediaries, the effective cost of logistics is brought down making it a win-win situation for Maersk, the exporters and their customers, the company indicated.
“We are extremely excited about the value proposition of Maersk’s cold chain solution. We are looking forward to serving our customers better with the tools that Maersk has placed in our hands through a single window solution for our logistic needs,” noted Mayank Tandon, Vice-President of FreshTrop.
“The cold chain solution for grape shipments will bring in considerable ease and speed while ensuring complete visibility of cargo temperature and container location. Remote Container Management along with TradeLens will greatly help our customers as well,” remarked Ranjeet Patil, Director, Fresh Express, a customer using Maersk’s services.
Maersk aims at expanding its end to end cold chain solutions across the country to tap in all the seasonal exports to eventually enable trade for the agro-based industry from India.
