5 Reasons to Partner with a Professional Logistics Company to Ship High-Value Packages
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A business cannot compete in the market without shipping its goods. This is also true for high-value items, such as precious metals, coins, or antiques. That requires serious shipping logistics that companies like yours are not accustomed to.
Professional logistics companies are there to provide this service and let you stay strictly in your branch of business. If you are not sure about hiring one, here are 5 reasons we think you should do it.
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Cost-Effectiveness
Shipping logistics is very important in your delicate branch of business, and it should be handled by highly trained professionals. However, it would not make any sense to keep a logistics team within your company nowadays. You would have to spend thousands of dollars and years of training just to build a reliable team, yet the real expense would be keeping it.
Outsourcing will help you cut these costs immensely, and still receive top-notch service. Companies like Unival Logistics specialize in safely transporting high-value cargo. They hire and maintain teams of highly trained professionals, and your company would only pay for their service.
If you ship regularly, you’ll receive various discounts and will certainly feel the cost-effectiveness of this service over time.
Safety
Safety is the main stress inducer in this branch of business. It is only natural – you are dealing in high-value goods, and you know everybody out there would like to have them. This makes another good reason to partner with a professional logistics company.
These companies employ teams of capable professionals trained to safely deliver high-value shipments in a timely manner, using various anti-theft strategies. A good company is always staying updated with the latest innovations in the field of safety, so you know they are always a step ahead.
Even if something bad happens, these companies offer insurance that will cover any potential losses.
Good Delivery Time
Keeping your customers happy is of crucial significance to your company, and delivery time is one of the key factors in keeping your customers happy. A good professional logistics company that specializes in transporting high-value cargo knows how important punctuality is when it comes to your target market.
Punctuality increases the feeling of safety, and that is of the essence to you and your customer when it comes to high-value shipments. A good carrier’s timeliness should not be affected by peak seasons or bad weather, and some of them even work during the weekends and holidays.
Insurance
Getting good insurance is a great advantage of partnering with a professional logistics company. Normally you would take an enormous risk with every shipment, but these companies offer various types of shipping insurance that will save you a lot of anxiety and money, at some point.
However, choosing the appropriate shipping insurance for your company requires a very studious approach. Most common carriers, such as UPS or FedEx, intentionally provide vague explanations of their shipping insurance policy, hoping it might confuse some of their clients.
One of the most common dilemmas among shippers concerns the difference between the declared value and shipping insurance. A lot of shippers learn the difference only after they realize that they cannot recover the full value of their lost or damaged shipment.
Declared value stands for the cost of the item stated by you (the shipper). In case the package gets lost or damaged, you can file a claim and pursue recovery of declared value. However, most carriers only cover up to $100 in value, and you have to prove their negligence to recover it.
That is why you have to buy shipping insurance for any value that exceeds the carrier’s default coverage. We assume that in your case every shipment exceeds that value, so you should never rely on the declared value.
When it comes to buying shipping insurance, you should still be very careful. Every carrier can sell you shipping insurance, but not all of them cover valuable goods, such as art, antiques, precious metals, coins, or cash.
There is also a list of countries considered risky that their insurance does not cover, but they will still ship the package. Plus, most of the carriers cannot provide coverage for more than $50 000 in shipment value.
That is why you should consider the third-party insurance that some professional logistics companies offer. They can cover any legal item and some of them can cover packages valued up to $150 000. Plus, they offer a much more personalized service, which makes claim processing more efficient.
More Focus on Your Business Development
With shipping logistics taken care of, you can completely focus on your business development. With the effective and personal service you receive from good professional logistics companies, your staff will experience great relief and will be able to focus more on what your company’s primary service is.
Every reputable logistics company these days has API (Application Programming Interface), which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. That means that communication with your partner logistics company will be automated, making your team more flexible for other operations.
Taking Everything Into Account
We think you should not have second thoughts about partnering with a professional logistics company. Shipping logistics is simply not your field of business, and it would be a waste of time, money, and energy trying to focus on it. These companies will let you take care of what you do best, and they will handle everything else.
With a good partner company, you will know that your goods are safe and getting delivered on time, keeping your delivery rate stable and your customers happy. For everything else, there is shipping insurance, and we recommend buying third-party insurance because it suits your business the best and has been very popular lately in your branch.
This article was meant to help you get to know this kind of service and recognize a good provider, but it will still take some research to find the most suitable shipping logistics company to partner with.
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