The time to be footing the bill on international shipping could not be worse – but don’t take our word for it. Multiple sources have reported, over the last two months, that shipping costs have skyrocketed after the double hammer-blows of both COVID-19 and Brexit. Reading article after article about these ballooning costs – along with the restrictions and tariffs that are coming from the pandemic and the political separation between the UK and the EU – is frankly harrowing. And people are starting to feel it where it hurts: their wallets.
Shipping container costs have quadrupled, according to Bloomberg Press, and the cost of maintaining a complex overseas supply chain through multiple companies is becoming wildly out of proportion with what companies’ budget for. The cost of moving goods is rapidly encroaching on profitability. Put simply: this way of doing business in the face of political and economic upheaval just isn’t sustainable.
Luckily, we’ve figured out how to circumvent this catastrophe: our own secure logistics and distribution network. Over the last few years, PolarSeal has bucked the trend of keeping on a third-party supply chain manager. The traditional thinking is that a producer or manufacturer should put 100% of its effort into making the best product possible, leaving the logistical and delivery aspects to a dedicated third company.
But that doesn’t quite ring true, does it? If you want to make a good product, you want to have a role in each specific aspect of production, including logistics and delivery. After all, your company image is always on the line. What good is an excellent product if it never arrives on time or shipping costs make it completely unaffordable?
That’s where PolarSeal’s secure logistics and global network comes into the picture. From the beginning, we knew our products needed special care – medical supplies are meant to be sterile, flawless, and effective, so we couldn’t cut corners. This meant setting up our own systems of supply and shipping so that we relied as little as possible on outside shipping corporations to deal with moving our product. As a result (and not to brag), our global distribution has been largely unaffected by the backed-up ports and spiking shipping costs coming out of Asia recently.
What we’re left with is the swift and simple movement of our product that saves everyone involved money, energy, and time. No needless communication back and forth to third-party managers. No exorbitant shipping fees on products. No late deliveries or constantly pushed-back deadlines. Our product is not simply medical supplies, but flexibility. PolarSeal’s clients are not just given an excellent physical product, but they’re also given a guarantee of great service: shipping included in all prices, simple collection or delivery, multiple options for delivery, use of consignment warehouses… the list goes on. When you keep up your own logistics and network for shipping, you can pass on the positive gains to the client – the party who is actually going to keep you in business. Being at the mercy of giant shipping conglomerates is going to force you to increase your prices, which in turn will make clients question its value. Go ahead and use this simple solution to keep your shipping costs down, increasing your value in your clients’ eyes – or talk to us today to see how we can help solve your own shipping issues.