Shipping in the Summer Season: Useful Tips That You Should Know

The summer season in the Philippines presents both opportunities and challenges for businesses due to increased demand for certain products. As temperatures rise, consumers need more items like swimwear, outdoor equipment, refreshments, and beverages.

To keep customers satisfied, businesses must be well-prepared to handle the summer increase in demand and shipments. Having efficient logistics operations is key during this seasonal spike. In this article, you’ll learn some useful tips that you can use to handle summer season shipping this year.

3 Essential Tips When Shipping Your Items This Summer Season

Tip #1: Prepare Special Packaging for Heat-Sensitive Items

When you think about summer, it always implies heat and temperature. It also makes you worry and makes it the basic and initial step to consider in shipping, those heat-senstive items! These are commonly candles, chocolates, cosmetics, and certain types of artwork. Once you have identified these items, you can take extra precautions when packaging and shipping them during the summer months.
To safeguard these products during summer shipping, you need special and proper packaging. The use of materials that provide adequate insulation and thermal protection, such as thermal liners and gel packs that are commonly used for shipping chocolates. We use these materials to maintain the quality at a stable temperature.

Tip #2: Timing and Scheduling Shipments

It’s also advisable to consider the duration and vehicle conditions when shipping this summer season. Timing your shipments can significantly affect their success in delivery during the summer months. The common practice for this tip is to ship during cooler parts of the day or overnight. It minimizes exposure to extreme heat. Planning is also critical during peak shipping seasons, which coincide with summer months. Preparing in advance can help avoid delays and ensure timely delivery.

Tip #3: Choose Fast Shipping Delivery Providers

Time is gold as well when you make shipping during the summer season, and the best way to protect your products from heat damage is to minimize the time they spend in transit. By partnering with delivery service providers that offer same day delivery, you can ensure your items reach your customers or your destinations quickly. Just be sure to communicate your cargo details clearly in your booking checkout to provide a heads up to your logistics provider that your items need extra care, especially during the summer season.

Logistics Apps That Offer Same Day Delivery For Summer

Lalamove

Notable App Features:

• Route optimization (available only on their web app)
• Cashless transactions via PayMaya, debit/credit, and GCash
• LalaRewards program for clients

Lalamove provides same day delivery of up to 20 kg of cargo on motorbikes across its operating areas in Luzon. They start at 60 PHP in price. For a base charge of 2,000 PHP, Lalamove offers light trucks and multipurpose vehicles in addition to motorcycles. Up to 20 distinct drop-off destinations can be added to the Lalamove logistics app. If you use the online app and choose the optimize option, your route will be planned to take the most economical path.

For smaller shipments, Lalamove offers a range of motorcycles, light delivery trucks like the L300, and aluminum vehicles for bigger loads.

Grab Express

Notable App Features:

• Optimize route (available on their mobile app only)
• Cashless payments
• Delivery timetable with a 4-hour window for non-urgent reservations

The Grab super app is recognized for its same day delivery service, Grab Express. Based on vehicle, time, and distance, the app determines the fee. Clients have a choice of two options. Items are picked up as soon as feasible when there is instant delivery. The second option is the 4-hour delivery service, which guarantees a 4-hour window for both item pickup and delivery.

While multipurpose vehicles can deliver heavier and more delicate things (50 kg), motorcycles can only transport tiny parcels (20 kg). For 4-hour delivery, only items weighing less than 5 kg are accepted. Regarding delivery visibility, don’t worry. Senders and recipients of the express service can monitor the driver’s arrival time thanks to its tracking feature.

Dingdong® powered by RiderKo

Notable App Features:

• Optimize route (available on their mobile app only)

According to its own description, RiderKo is an application-based technology platform that known powered Dingdong® today. It has entered the delivery service industry for the first time in the Philippines. They have offices in Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna, and Metro Manila.

In Mega Metro Manila, it is a comparatively new startup business. In addition to same day delivery, their apps offer Joyride and Grab for shopping. For as little as 55 PHP, you can do several deliveries at once.

JoyRide

Notable App Features:

• Cashless Payment

In 2019, JoyRide was established. The JoyRide super app allows you to access their services. In Metro Manila, Rizal, Cavite, Bulacan, Laguna, Cebu, and Baguio, they provide same day delivery. JoyRide may use their motorcycles and light commercial vehicles to make same-day and many deliveries at the same time, just like the other applications listed.

KargaX

Notable App Features:

• The option for clients to bargain directly with the truck driver for a lower delivery fee.

One of the first countrywide transportation apps in the country was developed in 2021 and is called KargaX. Users of the platform can access a range of shipping choices and interact with other shippers. They deliver on the same day in parts of Mindanao, Visayas, and Luzon.

With its platform that lets shippers bargain with clients over prices, the new on-demand logistics company thinks it can help solve the “empty miles” issue.

Transportify

Notable App Features:

• Assign to your prefer driver
• Batch Booking for more than 10 deliveries
• Route optimization available that can bundle up to 50 bookings
• Pay your driver using GCash
• Up to 3 million pesos cargo insurance for business accounts

Transportify is a great option for moving anything, including appliances and merchandise, especially in the summer season when people need fans and air conditioners. However, they are not your normal Philippine cargo delivery firm. There isn’t a single warehouse where your shipments are stored. Rather, it deploys its drivers throughout its vast service area, acting as a third-party delivery partner.

SEE ALSO:

• How Can You Prepare for Shipping in Summer Peak Season?
• Peak Shipping Season: What Is It and When Does It Happen?