Consumer Goods / FMCG
Reliable transports for fast-moving consumer goods: food, beverages, household products and consumer goods with on-time deliveries.
Benefits of Direct Transport
- No transshipment - your goods stay on the same vehicle
- Faster delivery via direct haul without intermediate stops
- Lower risk of damage
- Real-time GPS tracking
- Dedicated driver for your shipment
Typical FMCG shipments in direct transport
Fast-moving consumer goods live on shelf availability: shelf-stable food and dry goods, beverages with high pallet weight, drugstore and household products, promotional and display goods, and seasonal items around Easter, summer and Christmas. The shipments mostly go to the retailers' central warehouses – and there the booked time window rules: anyone who misses the slot often loses a whole day and risks demurrage and empty shelves.
Requirements of consumer-goods logistics
- Time-window reliability: central warehouses work with firmly booked delivery slots
- Remaining shelf life: food must arrive with sufficient remaining shelf life – every lost hour counts
- Seasonal peaks: promotions and holiday business create short-notice capacity needs
- Clean pallet handling and clearly regulated exchange processes at the loading dock
- Impeccable load compartments – clean, dry and odour-neutral for food
The direct advantage: reaching slots reliably
Groupage and hub chains have many stations at which delay can arise – direct transport has none. Your goods are loaded at the plant or warehouse and drive without transhipment to the recipient's loading dock. This makes booked time windows considerably more reliably reachable and at the same time reduces damage and shrinkage, because no one touches the pallets en route. The GPS arrival forecast gives the central warehouse's goods inward planning certainty.
Reliability even in peak season
Precisely before holidays and in promotion phases, when the freight market tightens, the fixed price pays off: you know before departure what the transport costs – with no surcharges and no recalculations. Our dispatch team is reachable around the clock when a promotion requires additional runs at short notice or a delivery date shifts. That way your supply chain from plant to central warehouse stays predictable even in the highest-turnover weeks of the year.
Frequently asked questions
How do you ensure that booked time windows at the central warehouse are kept?
Direct transport runs without transhipment and without hub stops – the most common sources of delay are thereby eliminated entirely. We record the slot, registration procedure and loading-dock details in the order in advance, and the journey is monitored by GPS. If a deviation emerges, our dispatch team informs you and the recipient proactively.
How is pallet exchange handled?
Exchange terms are agreed clearly before the journey: whether euro pallets are exchanged at the loading dock, credited or not exchanged, we record in the order and document the process on the freight documents. That way there are no later disputes about pallet accounts between consignor, recipient and carrier.
Do I get capacity at short notice during seasonal peaks?
Short-notice enquiries are everyday business for us – our dispatch team is reachable around the clock and plans exclusive vehicles for your promotional goods even in peak phases. The fixed price agreed in advance applies without seasonal surcharges, so that promotions and holiday business stay calculable.