In a way, the packaging industry and plastic buckets manufacturing being cost-effective is similar to being sustainable development. Cost-effective packaging solutions become a need rather than an option. To cope the uncertain global freight cargo shipping delay, how to cut costs and win costumer’s confidence in global commerce of plastic buckets is the key.
(photo: innopack® 20L white plastic buckets are stacking and loading by fork truck)
Challenge is everywhere
Why? The global logistics situation has always been unpredictable, we can not predict but can maintain an optimistic heart to face the changes. Recently, the traffic surge on the eastbound trans-Pacific led to longer waiting times for unloading, uncertain situation in the Red Sea crisis that resulted rerouting of cargo ships to around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope which has increased by 12-20 days in crossing 25000KM more.
In additionally, European tariff policy might change for new energy vehicles import that make precocious export shipping demands from Shanghai port, all these facts extended cargo freight dwell times such as cargo unloading and uploading from ship, manage ship shortages, rearrange them for export loads and delays in returning empty containers.
This has spilled into the plastic buckets supply networks that bring products to worldwide distribution centers with additional delays and congestion surcharges. This has also become a problem for exporters as container shortages, and delays have spread to Chinese plastic buckets exports. To solve and cope this well-known bottleneck, many firms have been serious about taking advantage of new alternatives or pushing ocean carriers to reroute their service loops.
The immediate impact is reflected in a significant delay in the arrival of packaging materials supplies such as tin cans, plastic pails, oil barrels, metal drums for price increases, generating widespread fears of possible price increases globally.
Today, let us see how Innopack®, a Chinese plastic container-producing and packaging leader, makes cost-saving strategies for all customers in this context.
(photo: Innopack® expanded 14000 SF storing area by a giant convertible industrial ceiling)
Innopack® Wins Global Logistic Challenge
To effectively address the uncertainty of future international shipping times, Innopack has proactively implemented numerous measures. We are confident in our ability to ensure timely delivery of customers’ orders over the next decade:
- PalletPacking Service： Offer professional pallet packaging services, enabling us to stack
hundreds of mass-produced plastic lids, buckets or metal tin cans on wooden pallets. This minimizes manual handling within limited container space, optimizing loading and unloading time while reducing labor costs.
- Pre-OrderPomotion: Our dedicated product educators kindly advise customers to place their orders well in advance. This prevents any potential delays in shipping schedules from impacting customers’ receipt of packaged products at specified times or disrupting peak sales periods such as Halloween and Christmas. We offer an early-bird discount, please feel free to inquiry us for more promotional details.
- Increased Inventory: We proactively manufacture popularplastic pails like wholesale 5-gallon and 20L white plastic buckets for long-standing customers as inventory reserves. Even during freight shortages or limited shipping spaces, we can promptly deliver goods without waiting for production, ensuring no missed shipping opportunities.
- Expand Warehouse: This June, we completed an open land space utilization project by constructing a retractable industrial ceiling between two buildings. This created an additional storage area of 1200 square meters with zero downtime for accelerated loading and extra space storage. It significantly enhances inventory management efficiency and facilitates loading/unloading operations.
5.Boost productions: The construction of the building integrated rooftop photovoltaic (BIPV) power station program was completed last month, in addition to promoting environmental protection, energy efficiency and sustainable development. It provides Innopack® plastic injection molding manufacturing customized buckets and lids consistently within plenty of clean energy capacity.
- One-Stop Packaging： Another important cost-saving strategyis integrated into your supply chain. As we provide resourcing, molding, design, batch-produce, labeling, packaging, and delivery of all processes into a one-stop service. Customers do not need to transport their containers between different places, cities, provinces, even countries to finish all key links. Innopack® saves you unnecessary time spending and money costs during transportation.
- Alternative Shipping Route: In this context, Innopack® as an international plastic packaging manufacturing company responds tochanges different route situations for customers. The logistic manager has to optimize and keep abreast of the current situation and is in constant communication with its customers to keep them informed. The goal to aim is to offer a fastest shipping routine to enhance transporting efficient and safe logistics’s solutions.
Innopack® believes customers are our partners, as are all organizations with whom we collaborate to achieve our mission and vision. We create and deliver all range-sized plastic and metal buckets. We are a one-stop packaging solution company to satisfy our partner’s demands.
