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New paths. New possibilities.
To compete in a world of uncertainties, new paths must be found and adopted to deliver chemicals safely, while being fast, agile and resilient to supply chain challenges. Keep chemical inventories moving and costs in control with always-on digital visibility, a flexible mix of multimodal transport options and seamless end-to-end operations.
Industry overview
In a world where 96% of all manufactured goods depend on chemicals in one way or another, there are ample opportunities for chemical companies to grow. Chemical manufacturers, striving to secure a larger share in the marketplace, have created an extremely competitive battleground. Several industry trends – protectionist trade policies, tariff wars, and industry consolidation – are also pushing businesses to adopt new ways to stand out.
As these trends permeate the chemical industry, many businesses are remodelling to drive growth and profitability. At the core of this transformation is the need to build resilience - with the ability to adapt, digitise, and modernise. Safety remains a high priority while sustainability has increasingly become a focus.
Chemical companies see their supply chains playing a crucial role in their business transformation. Whether they need to support continuous production lines with effective storage solutions; increase margins with supply chain cost-efficiencies; improve safety and compliance, or gain customer loyalty with greater visibility and on-time deliveries, they are making high demands of their supply chain partners to add value at every stage of their supply chain.
Six trends are shaping the chemical industry
Customer centricity
Cargo-based supply chains
Sustainability
Push driven supply chains
Modernisation
Capturing new markets
Why Maersk
Drive profitability
Customise your supply chain from end to end, reduce storage costs with our Flex Hubs, and benefit from our teams’ deep logistics expertise and safety mindset.
Innovate, Digitalise
Enjoy greater visibility, better coordination, strong compliance and safety processes and better collaboration with our advanced digital platforms.
Deliver on your customer promises
Get global and local coverage with our extensive network, reduce the distance to customers, and increase responsiveness with integrated solutions.
Industry Spotlight – Explore logistics trends in the Chemical sector
How can the Chemical industry build more efficient, resilient and cost-effective supply chains?
Watch Patrick Hore, Global Head of Chemicals, A. P. Moller – Maersk, explain how the Chemical industry can tackle major operational challenges; how planning an efficient supply chain can lead to lower landed cost; the key role of logistic service providers, and why commoditising the supply chain is the wrong strategy for companies to adopt to enhance their efficiencies.
CBAM: Time to put a price on Carbon
Do you know about the new levy that is being introduced in the EU to cut down on carbon emissions?
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a part of the Fit for 55 package, will have a financial impact on several products in some of the most carbon-intensive sectors. And require companies to be on top with their data and carbon emission reporting. William Petty, Product Development Manager, Global Trade & Customs Consulting at Maersk, explains CBAM and its impact on several industries. Watch the video to know if your business falls within the scope of CBAM and the steps you need to take to be compliant.
Our team is here to guide you and help you stay on top of further developments.
Collaboration: for a well-oiled chemicals supply chain
Digitalising chemical supply chains for resilience
How can the chemical industry be better prepared to face disruptions? Can the highly complex process of transporting hazardous goods be simplified? What are the insights and key trends beginning to make a difference in streamlining chemical supply chain logistics?
To find out, Kristoffer Meinert, Communications Manager at Maersk attempts to throw some light on these questions in an exclusive chat with Patrick Hore, Head of Chemicals at Maersk. An insightful discussion that explores how digitisation, collaboration and flexibility are key to building reliable chemical transport solutions. Watch our video.
Commit to sustainability through collaboration
Latest trends and insights from the world of logistics
What's the best way to deal with the supply chain disruptions brought on by the pandemic and other unmitigated situations around the world? Current solutions that exist aren’t seamless in keeping up with demand, predicting fluctuations, and keeping goods moving safely, in their prime condition.
Is the answer as simple as adding more capacity and flexibility to every part of the supply chain?
In this exclusive chat with Kristoffer Meinert, Customer Communications Manager, Maersk, Charles Patrick Hore, Head of Chemicals, Maersk, sheds some light on these conundrums and discusses how to look for solutions in the most unexpected places, like relationships in the industry, and information exchange.
Adding value to our customers
With Maersk as your partner, you can build a more agile and efficient chemical supply chain, characterised by safety and digital innovation.
Flex Hub - Get closer to your customers
Chemical businesses like yours need to deliver the right cargo to the right place at the right time. That becomes a challenge, especially when the cost of storing your goods exceed the price of the product itself. With Maersk Flex Hub, you get the flexibility to slow down or speed up your supply chain. It lets you store containers at one of our transhipment ports at a fraction of traditional warehousing costs, and make your deliveries as and when you see fit.
Syngenta is happy to announce the extension of our partnership with Maersk to provide best-in-class 4PL. The partnership will support Syngenta’s recent commitment to reduce carbon emissions from our supply chain by 50% by 2030 and help optimise supply operations. This will guarantee the best delivery service to Syngenta’s Customers and Growers around the world.
Maersk is our valued partner and our engagement on the shipping side has grown with them over years. Their rail combined solution has helped us with timely equipment availability at our Jamnagar Plant and at the same time has helped us contribute to the environment through Carbon Savings. We expect similar end-to-end solutions from Maersk going forward which are sustainable and give us cost advantage.
An eco-system of trust and collaboration
Building a culture of trust and collaboration with your customer requires you to go the extra mile and explore new possibilities. To support Syngenta’s commitment to reduce their carbon footprint while helping their customers produce food in the most sustainable way, we realised the need to become an integral part of their mission. Today, we work as a part of their eco-system to enable their vision for the future.
Here's a flavour of how Maersk and Syngenta are embracing shared values to shape a sustainable future.
The Importance of Flexibility
Faster lead times in a competitive environment. Lower inventory costs in a low margin category. Continuous production. Uncertainty in demand. Cargo flows of varying speeds. The demands of a Chemicals customer can be difficult to meet in an optimal way. Unless you think out of the box. Or in this case, out of the four-walls-and-a-roof.
In this video, Henrik Wretensjoe, Global Vertical Head, Chemicals, Maersk and Hamza Hioul, Global Business Product Owner, Flex Hub, Maersk discuss the importance of flexibility in Chemicals logistics; and how customers are enjoying the benefits of connecting their supply chains in unconventional ways with the Flex Hub solution.
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