Nothing feels better than doing what people otherwise said you cannot do -AnonymousThe societal structure we live in today ridicules every single individual with stereotypes. And very few think of coming beyond these old-school thoughts and attempting to achieve something out of the box. However, such achievers always go through a path of horns and Priti Ujal, Senior Support Executive...
Traditionally, airports and ports are not integrated or coordinated since they service different supply chains, like high value goods for air mode and bulk commodities for maritime mode. Maritime and Air Cargo were characteristically incompatible, implying that port and airport operations were planned separately. Their location just coincided because they both service large urban markets and need to be well...
Resilience is a skill that not many would possess. Being resilient means achieving what you want breaking all the odds and being optimistic. Meet Charu Agarwal, Lead Business Analyst at Kale Logistics Solutions who was not only resilient in continuing her professional journey, but also resilient in ensuring work life balance. Her MBA in Aviation Management let her to kickstart a...
The International Maritime Organization has announced amendments to the FAL Convention which mandates compulsory digitization for all ports worldwide. According to the new amendment, every port is now mandated to have a single window system for digital information exchange between stakeholders on arrival, stay and departure of vessels.Added to this, public authorities too are mandated to consolidate the submitted information...
Consistency is a skill that relatively every professional must possess and it rewards you with enormous power to dominate the space you work in. Here is a woman who has put in 34 years of her career in the logistics industry – Donna Mullins. She began her career as an Import Agent and went on to become one of the...
A 2021 report by McKinsey states that women employees in Corporate world feel burned out due to a significant amount of work pressure (during the WFH routine). However, the reason is not only about the WFH, but also about managing their personal life along with work. Yes, the best of corporate companies is witnessing distress among their women employees.In turn,...
2020 and 2021 were tumultuous years for the logistics industry, with its effects naturally rippling through multiple sectors. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a climate of uncertainly for the freight forwarding industry and a perfect storm of challenges, including skyrocketing freight rates due to capacity crunches in supply chain networks; escalating demand for consumer goods and e-commerce; mounting port congestion...
While, internet has been crucial in driving the fourth wave of feminism across the globe and innovation in technology are making huge strides to better understand and integrate women’s needs into product development, but we cannot ignore the flagrant gender inequality that exists today in the tech industry. History has represented technology as a man's world, an idea that has...
Ports, as important nodes in maritime transport, have a significant influence on the economic, social, and environmental development of countries on a local, regional, and national level. Recently, sustainability issues are becoming a critical component of maritime logistics. In order to achieve sustainable business, governments (or other types of decision makers) implement port governance structures with clear policy goals. Port...
Over a decade, the way women have paved their way within the tech industry is commendable. The fact that the industry has witnessed a steady rise of women in the technology arena is a great one. While there has been tremendous progress, we also need to acknowledge the efforts put in to get to the position where we are today....
The Logistics industry has witnessed a paradigm shift in operations with the adoption of technology in the last two years. However, the industry has a long way to go, with 50 per cent still lacking in digital culture and training (according to reports). Despite this, Transformative Technology has been a game-changer during the pandemic. As we enter into 2022, here...
Despite changing working norms and looming uncertainty women in the corporate world are rising to the moment as stronger leaders and taking on the extra work that comes with this, at par with men at all levels, women are doing more to support their teams and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Kale Logistics Solutions in its dream of building...
Since the pandemic outbreak, the air cargo industry has found an opportunity in cargo movement. For the same reason, their entire fleet got converted into cargo carriers. As of today’s date, there has been a 9 percent increase in cargo utility in carriers and thanks to the enormous demand post the pandemic. However, now they have a new challenge lined...
Cargo congestion has gone from bad to worse at major Airports in the world, especially USA. Moreover, the upcoming period after the pandemic too looked uncertain as they were experiencing import export surge. A year later, the condition still looks precarious as the delays have caused overflowing warehouses, and lack of equipment to carry the cargo from one end to...
When electronic data interchange (EDI) was introduced half a century ago, it rang in an era of business automation. Two decades later, in the eighties, standards began to converge towards the UN/EDIFACT standard, which set the foundations for global data exchange between businesses. Today, 95% of documents exchanged electronically in air freight use a “dialect” of EDI called Cargo IMP...
“Unique Labour dynamics” in the air cargo industry is turning to be a burning issue for entire supply chain. With unemployment benefit schemes being a disincentive for some staff to return to the workforce, the air cargo sector is at crossroads. According to industry estimates, staff shortage at the peak of COVID-19 lockdown was 30 percent. Since last year the...
Freight Forwarders play a crucial role in the entire logistics industry. The role of Freight Forwarders in the modern world is simple but significant. Apart from arranging carriers to move cargo forward, they have a strategic advisory role in terms of documentation, planning, providing local services and execution of cargo movement. Complex, demanding, and the most competitive business scenario in...
With a good chunk of the world population getting vaccinated, now the focus is on getting back to usual business. Even during the peak of COVID-19, e-commerce did thrive. Thanks to logistics frontliners in maritime industry who played a pivotal role in moving cargo from Asia Pacific to the entire world. But now, every port in North America, Europe and...
Since the advent of the pandemic, the demand for air cargo bookings online have been on the rise quite exponentially and so is the need to negotiate on the pricing through online modes. While Shippers and Freight Forwarders negotiate in person for quotations, nowadays, requesting quotation is performed online with technology intervention. Certain IT solutions exists that allows the stakeholders to...
Freight Forwarders and Exporters often see Airport as a blackhole. Yes, once cargo enters the airport precinct, these stakeholders would hardly get any visibility on the shipment. But the stakeholders on the air side too face challenges such as redundant data entries, revenue leakage and regulatory delays. Due to such issues, shipments either go missing or delayed for departure. To...
