Value Added Services

While SAL Logistics arranges for the transportation of your goods, it provides the owner of the cargo financial protection against all risks of physical loss or damage from any external cause. The insurance provides risk coverage for ocean, air and road freights. Insurance services from SAL Logistics also provide coverage for stored goods at the company's warehouse. In the event of a loss or damage, the insurance surveyors are available for responsive and complete inspections. SAL Logistics' claim handling unit makes quick, fair and complete settlements. Cargo insurance provides extra peace of mind for the valued customers.

For international shippers SAL Logistics offers:

• Unlimited access to the world's top cargo insurance carriers
• Streamlined facility for small shippers
• Competitive rates, flexible terms
• Complete internet based solution for Logistics firms
• International Property and Liability Coverage

Service Highlights

• Covered losses are paid without the need to prove carrier negligence
• No limits on Cargo value coverage
• Insurance Company deals with collecting from the carrier (if possible) once the claim has been paid
• No need to demonstrate where the loss occurred
• Claim payments based on insured value, not weight of pieces missing/damaged or Carrier's limited liability
• Company will report and handle claims on your behalf
• Low deductibles

Logistics and supply chain management is an integral part of the business. With the steady focus on these key functions, SAL Logistics provides its customers strategic benefits of warehousing.

Located in the close proximity to the International Airports, SAL Logistics' warehouses are well laid out, staffed by experienced personnel, and are supported by the latest inventory management, security and specialized storage systems. The facility consists of completely modern storage systems and material handling equipment. Thus, allowing the company to offer customers very high levels of operational efficiency.

Customer Benefits
Flexible warehousing services allows the customers to:

• Concentrate on core competencies
• Create greater competitive flexibility and release working capital
• Get lean and agile
• Exploit the better know - how and scale efficiencies of logistics companies

With branches in all metros and mini metros, SAL has several storage locations across India. This has enabled the company to serve multiple clients, and offer many more customer friendly solutions:

• Flexible hiring options
• Modern racking and handling equipment
• Reduction in material breakage, damage etc
• Engineering solutions to design and build warehouses as per requirements
• Warehouse management system

With unparalleled understanding of transportation technologies, SAL Logistics offers custom packaging and shipping for heavy, over sized and fragile items, including machinery and industrial equipment. These services are specially structured to save your time and ensure your items arrive intact at their destination. Packaging experts from SAL utilize state-of-the-art packing and custom crating processes to protect goods during shipping. They also specialize in properly packing fragile and high-value items, including antiques, art, electronics, crystal, china and porcelain.

Service Highlights

• Best packaging methods are identified considering item's fragility, composition and value
• Usage of prefabricated boxes, design and build one-of-a-kind wood crates and corrugated fiber-board containers
• Usage of appropriate packing materials ensuring protection during transportation
• Shipments are secured with pallets or skids to provide additional stability and handling

Here are some packaging material you may wish to use for your consignments:

• Bags
• Flyers
• Boxes
• Jumbo Box and Jumbo Junior
• Tubes
• Tapes
• Wrapping Paper and Film
• Strapping
• Edge Protection

SAL Logistics' portfolio of value added services includes palletization of export consignments. The palletization services are designed for safe loading and unloading of products. It also involves fumigation of the pallets for pest control, preventing shipment from possible damages. The experts from SAL make sure that the base of the pallets are accessible for pallet-jacks on two sides with a minimum clearance, allowing easy handling during loading and unloading of the goods.

Service Highlights

• Each pallet is correctly packed in the lengthwise and crosswise directions, each correspond to fractions of the internal container width, length and height
• Hazardous material are packed with internal dunnage
• All the crates are fumigated to prevent damages caused by pests
• Palletized consignments are properly labeled to avoid any confusion

SAL Logistics offers door-to-door delivery services for customers who want to simplify logistics management, reduce costs and minimize the risk of loss or product damage, while focusing on core business. By leveraging the breadth and reliability of the global network, SAL can remove days from your supply chain, delivering goods from overseas directly to your desired destination. Your shipments can clear customs while still in the air enabling delivery by the end of the next possible business day, saving you time and money.

Service Highlights

• Port-to-door and door-to-door service from shipper to consignee
• Integrated service includes carton labeling, freight transportation and package delivery
• Streamlines processes by eliminating issues with multiple carrier bills
• Shipments of virtually any size or weight
• In-house licensed customs expertise
• Electronic pre-alert system makes arrangements with customs officials in destination countries, allowing most shipments to clear customs before the aircraft lands
• Complete tracking visibility with real-time tracking
• Fast and reliable transit times, including earliest deliveries and latest pickups in key major U.S. metros
• Backed by Service Guarantee
• SAL's experts across service areas hold good knowledge of local regulations and routes

Customer Benefits

• Enjoy speed, reliability, security, convenience and peace of mind every time you ship with SAL
• Save on the costs of a freight forwarder or agent to prepare documentation and clear your shipments
• Send supplies and raw materials to your customers in time for production – ideal for just-in-time production plans
• Access your shipments’ status, conveniently
• Create opportunities to improve customer loyalty, increase repeat sales, and grow revenue by getting products to your clients more quickly with our fast transit and clearance times

We have extensive expertise of handling of shipment that has to be collected at, or dispatched through a port. The services are based on the core principles material handling techniques and equipment. Various machines and equipment used by the expert logistics crew includes Cranes, Hoists, Conveyor Belt Drives, Article Stacking Machines, Bucket Wheel Reclaimers, Bucket Elevators, Shuttles, Hoppers, and Diverters etc., which are combined with warehousing facilities such as Storage Silos, Stockpiling and Stockyards. The complete process is supervised by experts, who ensure that material handling equipment perform the following tasks:

• Transport vessel components and remote port handling equipment between the docking ports.
• Enable access to the stored material in a container without spreading contamination, in case of hazardous substances or cargo.
• The equipment should able to handle the total weight of its main body, the vessel components being transported, and that of the remote handling auxiliary unit.

Our port handling services include discharge and loading of bulk, container, project cargo & hazardous goods. Utmost care is taken during entire operation of loading / unloading at ports to ensure safe handling and delivery of all kinds of cargo.

SAL Logistics offers prompt and hassle free import-export consultancy for the valuable clients from different industries and trade. The company provides counsel and services attending to commodity, tax rates and duties, import and export restrictions, exchange rates, methods of customs clearance, letters of credit, insurance requirement, domestic and international shipping and transportation regulations, tariff classifications, concessions, and appraisals.

With a sound knowledge and know-how, the expert professionals from SAL educate the clients of the rules and policies governing the same. SAL Logistics believes in fast and precise solutions and are indeed famous for delivering consultancy services in the shortest possible time, helping our clients reap the benefits of numerous exemptions incentives / assistance available under the Import-Export Policy.

Owing to the knowledge and expertise gained while being involved with import and export of goods, SAL is poised to offer you practical, result-oriented solutions.