Category Archives: Supply Chain

The 23rd biennial convention of the Federation of Freight Forwarders’ Associations in India (FFFAI) has been scheduled to take place from January 19-21, 2017 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Kochi (Cochin). The theme of the convention will be relevant to prevailing scenario of global business as well as logistics Industry. At FFFAI Convention in Kochi there will be delegates from wide spectrum of logistics industry, across India. FFFAI will also organise the ‘FIATA World Congress 2018’ from September 24-29, 2018 in New Delhi. The last convention held in Mumbai in 2015 witnessed participation of more than 400 delegates. “The FFFAI Convention 2017 will also be attended by overseas delegates including a Malaysian delegation,” informed Samir Shah, Chairman, FFFAI

Safeducate announced India’s largest and first-ever of its kind Logistics Job Fair. The aim is to bridge the skill gap and make fresh talent available to the industry. This Logistics Job Fair will be held on October 22, 2016 at seven different locations across India at Delhi, Jaipur, Lucknow, Indore, Kochi, Ranchi and Ambala simultaneously. Over 1200 jobs in the field of supply chain and logistics will be offered during the Logistics Job Fair. The students will get an opportunity to evaluate if their existing skill sets match up to the industry requirements. Divya Jain, Founder & CEO, Safeducate, said, “Safeducate Logistics Job Fair is a unique and first of its kind endeavor by us in the field of supply chain and logistics industry. This Logistics Job Fair will provide students with the tools and resources to make important and valuable career decisions. During the Logistics Job Fair, job seekers will take their first steps towards meaningful employment by meeting with prospective employers.”

“Logistics industry has huge scope of becoming more effective which signals opportunities for many entrepreneurs, multiple investments. For the infrastructure to improve we need some inorganic pushes for this industry. Although the government continues to focus on building right quality infrastructure for this industry, private logistics players have to contribute to this journey. Imagining a world of seamless logistics and then jointly working with the government to get this implemented is important. As we continue to see this trend on logistics companies making inroads into various spaces within logistics, more and more consolidation of this space would happen. Logistics is all about optimised networks for transportation and warehousing and scale indeed plays a critical role in bringing optimisation into play. The entire eco-system of logistics is very elementary in our country. The logistics start-ups have been trying to solve these issues from a very fresh perspective,” says, Rajesh Yabaji, Co-Founder, BlackBuck while commenting on the start-ups in the logistics sector.