Ahead of the curve
Business as usual is over when it comes to the production and distribution of consumer goods. We must step-change our business behaviours to build resilience in the supply and demand chain.
Central Express is a strategic transport company that has always been focused on the future - we see where things are going, and we make change happen when others find it hard to shift gears. Building resilient businesses based on entirely new levels of collaboration is the only way to get ahead of the curve.
Resilience through collaboration
Our sector is on a decarbonisation journey, and has been for some time. We have to drastically reduce our collective carbon footprint while remaining viable and relevant to consumers and communities.
Partnership is the solution. The removal of barriers to collaboration, and a blurring of the lines between previous separate and independent business sectors - horticulture producers, product makers, distributors, logistics providers, transport companies, ports, storage facilities - is inevitable and imminent.
A winemakers world
The wine industry isn’t just valuable to NZ Inc’s bottom line, it’s a precious social and cultural asset.
But pressing issues like rising global temperatures influence long term planning and straight-up viability. Additionally, rapidly changing consumer expectations and our distance from markets require us to rethink our systems to remove carbon from our supply and demand chain.
Viticulture businesses understand uncertainty - nature has always been unruly. Sustaining success in a turbulent commercial and natural environment requires robust, resilient businesses and constant innovation through partnership.
Covid and beyond
As if climate change isn’t enough, the covid pandemic has placed enormous pressure on supply and demand outcomes globally. Our economies are twisted out-of-shape by pandemic-fuelled inflation, gummed up trade routes, looming interest rate rises, tight labour markets and more.
Existing non-collaborative, lowest-price-wins business models are finding it hard to survive in this environment. More sophisticated, collaboration-led partnerships are far more likely to address myriad and complex infrastructure challenges and pressing economic imperatives.
Reloading on transport
Our transport infrastructure is running at high capacity as New Zealand’s economy grows - kiwis are hungry for goods from around the world, and our ability to make and sell products overseas is only increasing. Our roads are full of trucks moving these goods from one end of the country to the other.
At the same time, we are all becoming more aware of the consequences of unfettered growth, the implications of sustainable resource use, and the impacts of fossil fuel consumption.
As a strategic transport company, CEL is leading the way in embedding sustainable business practices in many ways - enabling our customers to achieve their economic goals while meeting increasing expectations around the sustainable transport of those goods.