4 common shipping problems and how to solve them with cargo tracking

The global supply chain crisis is challenging companies worldwide to find ways to battle the rising cost of transport and delivery delays. To these new challenges add up to prevailing challenges such as theft or quality issues.

To better mitigate these risks and improve overall operational efficiency, innovative solutions such as cargo tracking can significantly help private and public institutions. In the article we have highlighted 4 common transport issues with efficient solutions to solve them.

Delivery delays and lack of transparency

Among the top the most common causes of trucks delay we find the lack of visibility, triggering more delays, damages and loss.

Solution: track your cargoes from the warehouse until destination

Embracing technology can in that case, provide many benefits to mitigate risk of contingencies associated with cargo shipping. For example, a tracking device can give you the exact location of your cargo in real time.

knowing the location of your goods enhances transparency and provides you with a competitive advantage allowing for greater efficiency in case of events. By making certain key information (e.g., the estimated time of arrival) available in real time, you can also increase your customer loyalty and customer experience. Eventually you will be able to implement cost-effective changes to further improve your effectiveness based on up-to-date information.

Theft during transport

During the transport, other problems can occur and result in considerable loss of revenue. This is a recurring issue for high value-added goods. Since the profit can be important, traffickers use various methods to intercept a share of the cargo (e.g., replacing for example a portion of the goods with products of inferior quality.)

Solution: Secure your shipment with a e-seal with cable

In this context, the implementation of a cargo tracking system allows both to secure and monitor the goods during the entire transport chain and provide a strong deterring effect to reduce theft attempts.

An e-seal with cable can secure the truck doors and secondary devices can be used to secure elements such as valves and alert in case of unauthorized opening. On the long run it increases safety by reducing fraudulent behaviors and improves visibility and transparency over the entire supply chain

Loss of quality

In the same way, maintaining the quality throughout the transport chain is a major challenge for the food and pharmaceutical industry. Maintenance of the cold chain or humidity conditions are decisive factors to ensure the quality level of the product until it reach the consumers. If not, the consequences can be costly financially and in terms of public health and reputation risk.

Solution: Use e-seals equipped with sensors

Smart devices equipped with sensors can save your shipment. Whether you need to monitor the temperature, humidity or light level, these devices monitor the ambient conditions and send an alert as soon as a change is recorded. By ensuring the quality until destination you comply with industry standards, while cutting down on costs by reducing the number of incidents (claims…).

Misdeclaration of transit

False transit declaration is a common practice to circumvent the payment of customs duties. When goods are illegally unloaded in the country, it leads to revenue loss.

Solution: Track and secure all transits from border to border

The implementation of an electronic tracking system allows both to secure cargoes until they reach the border but also to track them along the way to ensure that they follow the correct itinerary. The alerts are programmed according to the transit criteria to be warned in case of a long and/or unexplained stop or if container’ doors are open for example.

For customs purposes, the implementation of an electronic transit monitoring system significantly reduces the risk of fraud thanks to its deterring effect. It allows for faster intervention in case of detected anomalies and enhances integrity as ultimately the transport becomes more secure and honest.

Access our case study for more information on the benefits of our Cotrack® solution for Customs purpose.

Cotecna has been working in many countries to maintain the integrity of cargoes until destination and ensure the highest level of security. Our tracking solution Cotrack®  adapts to every context to provide the best response and ensure the best results. Cotrack has monitored and secured more than 1 million transits.

For more information about Cotrack®  our Cargo Tracking Solution or to request a demo please contact us at governments@cotecna.com