School may be out for summer, but for those businesses supplying into schools, the hard work is just beginning.
Phew! You made it; you’ve managed to successfully navigate the busy calendar of summer school activities – from sports day to summer fetes, leaver assemblies to proms – another year of schooling is complete!
Whilst children, parents, carers, teachers and school staff can look forward to the summer holidays, the logistical wheels are already in motion preparing for the next academic year.
Shipping educational supplies by sea
Our Navigate solution is the number 1 choice for many businesses in the educational sector, based both in the UK and around the world. Whether we’re exporting supplies overseas, or importing from the Middle East or South East Asia, sea freight provides our customers with the reliability they need. Sea freight also allows for a huge variation in size and the type of goods you can move.
For full or part container loads of smaller items like folders, workbooks and stationery supplies, you can ship port-to-port, or if needed, we can move your goods door-to-door, delivering directly to schools.
For larger items like furniture or bulky equipment, or the uniquely shaped, out-of-gauge items we often ship, sea freight is also a great option, offering space and value.
We can also connect up your entire supply chain. We can arrange for all your suppliers to deliver to one warehouse location; we then sort and consolidate your goods and then ship them out, allowing you to deliver to multiple customers in multiple locations. Clever eh!
Making it possible for our customers
Meet Eduplan, a Dubai-based distributor who provides educational supplies used in the UK curriculum to international schools across the UAE.
With numerous suppliers and numerous destinations, we help relieve the admin and reduce clearance costs by consolidating their orders at our UK warehouse and shipping them out as 1 shipment, with 1 consolidated invoice.
Team Navigate: our star pupils!
The people who make all of this possible are our team of Navigate Specialists. The team are busy working behind the scenes right now, mapping out routes and organising deliveries for Eduplan and more customers in the educational sector.
As well as collections and customs documentation, the team oversee everything, down to devanning or arranging tail lifts for the crucial final mile delivery into the schools. They are also liaising direct with the consignees further down the supply chain, double checking customs paperwork is in order and keeping the flow of goods moving smoothly.
Our meticulous handling of shipments, monitoring collections and deliveries, and keeping customers updated on sailing schedules, delays or any complications that may occur.
Late for class?
No worries, there’s no detention here!
If you’ve missed the shipping deadline for sea freight, or the delays at the ports are causing disruption for time-critical movements, then our Aviate air freight solution is always on hand.
Are you shipping to schools this summer?
If so, get in touch to see how we can help get the next academic year off to an A+ start.
