Edray, the collaborative port logistics platform for international beneficial cargo owner shippers, has signed a strategic partnership with the technology-driven warehouse and fulfillment company, Kinimatic, to streamline and accelerate the flow of import shipments from the port to the final destination.
The logistics platform provides destination management to improve cargo velocity and reduce costs through clean data, active management, real-time visibility and supplying drayage capacity where and when it’s needed most, once a container leaves a vessel.
“In today’s challenging container logistics environment, our strong collaborative partnerships help deliver significant improvements to the flow of imports. EDRAY and Kinimatic together provide a better, more efficient and transparent way, to expedite container flows from the port to warehouse to final delivery,” commented Reade Kidd, Co-Founder and CEO of Edray.
Shippers need visibility to shipments at any given time during the container journey in order to have the ability to act quickly and respond to exceptions, according to Kidd.
Kinimatic gives shippers access to warehousing, transloading services and expedited local delivery services throughout the nation to meet the ongoing rise of e-commerce retail sales in the US, while consumers spent more than US$790 billion online with US retailers in 2020, a 32.4% year on year increase, according to a report from Digital Commerce 360.
Additionally, the company offers transloading at all major ports in addition to other specialised warehousing services.
Transloading services near port locations enable swift commitment of resources, such as containers, chassis and drayage drivers, while it contributes to the reduction of dwell times to help shippers lower skyrocketing demurrage and detention costs, according to an announcement.
“This meaningful collaboration offers shippers a single-source solution for all of their middle to last-mile requirements. Our national warehouse capacity enables shippers to offload containers and quickly get their cargo into our warehouses to reduce the high costs of detention and demurrage,” noted Kris Kellaway, CCO of Kinimatic.
