Moving product from your manufacturing plant to your marketplace gets increasingly challenging with the ever rising cost of fuel and insurance that carriers face, as well as security restrictions that continue to grow whether the cargo moves by air or surface. Doing this within the confines of the domestic 48 states is something that happens every day, but if your customers are in Alaska or Hawaii, how do you deal with the increased distance and limited choices to get the material there?

Depending on the size of your products, there are always the normal routes of waiting for an ocean container to fill or sending your dozens of packages via a small pack carrier that will charge on a per box basis. If your customers are in need of your product and can’t wait or can’t afford the high cost of couriers, what choices are left? This is where consolidation comes in.

The idea of consolidation is taking packages from different sources and moving them to a central location where they join up with other like-minded packages. These all are loaded into a single container and fly to their final destination. Finding a good parcel consolidator can and will mean savings in freight costs as well as a higher standard of service than even the best parcel carriers.

A consolidator gets volume discounts from carriers that allow the consolidator to pass along the savings to the customer. A consolidator also gets more consistent movement that better guarantees freight getting to its destination on-time. Using a consolidator is a much safer mode of transit, typically reducing theft and damage because the shipment is secure in a container when tendered to the carriers and is not being handled by multiple people in multiple hubs prior to arriving at its destination. There is better control over large multiple piece shipments, again because the shipment is secure usually in one container.

One other advantage of a consolidator is their sense for customer service. Typically, consolidators focus on a niche market and provide the best combination of service and price, even surpassing a traditional freight forwarder because they are more focused on specific lanes.

If you combine these three factors, consolidating, a niche market and customer service, you will find a company called Blue Water Consolidators. Blue Water has built a successful company moving parcel and freight consolidations between Alaska and Hawaii. They provide a premiere service and a price that competes with many of the larger freight companies in the U.S.

Located in Los Angeles and Chicago, Blue Water provides a variety of consolidation services to these far away states from anywhere in the domestic 48. Whether your needs are overnight air or ocean container, Blue Water can and will provide your organization with a cost effective method of getting goods to all Hawaiian islands as well as the farthest reaches of Alaska.

Their specialization makes them experts in their field but the Blue Water team’s integrity and commitment to the customer proves they are a service focused company.

If your business requires shipping to Hawaii or Alaska and you are seeking ways to reduce cost without sacrificing service, Blue Water is an option worth investigating.