Industry Sectors

LOGISTICS FOR TEA

Shipside is today one of the leading providers of warehousing for tea in Kenya

Our specialized warehouse in Mombasa is where we store & handle diverse tea blends.

Responsible for your tea. As a recognized tea-specialist, Shipside, ensures safe transport and careful storage and processing of the sensitive tea leaves.

In the past, the commodity of tea was transported in traditional plywood boxes. Today, in the majority of cases, the fine leaves reach us packed in bags and shipped in standard containers.

At our Mombasa special facility, we blend a variety of different teas, flavour them and then directly fill the goods.

Shipside – responsible for your tea.

Facts

– Import and export processing
– Storage and removal from storage
– Sampling
– Bag handling
– Sieving and pest control with ECO2 facility
– Blending and aromatisation
– Quality control in accordance with the Food Hygiene Regulation

FMCG

As the FMCG industry involves several intermediaries in the form of suppliers, distributors and retailers, the logistics solutions required are complex.
We understand the dynamics of FMCG in terms of margins, seasonality, demand and competition, hence our team is dedicated to ensure you achieve economies of scale to maximise profits. Based on our experience, we support you in every aspect of the supply chain to ensure the distribution deadlines demanded by the industry are met.
We offer a wide range of services including supply chain solution planning, design and management in network / facility, third party logistics (3PL), warehousing and transportation. Value adding services such as consolidation, labelling, packaging etc.

ENERGY

At shipside we understand the unique transport and logistics challenges facing the Energy sector. Our regional resources, comprehensive selection of services, and technology can provide you with a solution that will keep your fleet, field sites and projects operating at optimal performance and production levels. Our services in the sector include but are not limited to:

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Dangerous Goods
  • Trade Compliance Solutions
  • Vessel Agency

INDUSTRIAL / PROJECTS

We manage the supply chains for a number of companies operating industrial plants and remote site projects. We let our clients concentrate on their core business designing, engineering, installing, constructing and manufacturing products for the market. We therefore use our innovative methods to configure logistics solutions (planning, support, site surveys and cargo analysis) for any project size and ensure your machinery and equipment is delivered to the plant or project site promptly and efficiently.

BULK COMMODITIES

Shipside adapts solutions to your commodity logistics requirements to ensure safe and reliable shipping, handling, storage and distribution. Our experienced team, in partnership with our clients, design and conduct commodity logistics operations to avoid any bottlenecks along the supply chain. Our solutions are adapted to a number of bulk materials (dry bulk such as crystalline salt, coal, grains, fertilizer etc. or liquid bulk such as crude oil). Our services in the sector include but are not limited to:

  • Vessel Chartering / Agency
  • Customs Brokerage / Conveyancing
  • Stevedoring
  • Inland Logistics
  • Storage / Warehousing