Navigating the supply chain of coconut charcoal briquettes can be a complex journey, filled with numerous questions and intricacies. The journey from coconut trees to your hands raises a multitude of questions, each step shrouded in its own unique challenges and solutions.
In this article, we will discuss about this supply chain more deeply coming from the trees until to your doorstep:
Yup, maybe it sounds like a joke to show you this but, coconut charcoal briquettes firstborn is from the trees. And it doesn’t mean that we cut the trees, but we used the fruits which is coconut.
And then, farmers collect the coconut fruits from the trees as much as possible, with also considering the quality.
And then farmers will try to sell the coconuts, they can sell it directly to customers (as a drink), sell it to manufacturers, or also sell to scavengers.
In the coconut charcoal briquette business, most farmers will hand it over to scavenger first, so that the manufacturer can get more amounts of coconuts.
Scavengers will buy coconut fruits from several farmers, so they can have more higher amounts and sell it to the manufacturer.
They also can separate the fruits for different parts, and each part of the coconut will they sell to also each manufacturer who needs it.
Coconut supports the “blue economy” by creating jobs and using resources wisely. Blue economy means using every waste of coconut to become a product for sale.
Almost every part of Coconut can be used in our life. It’s like a “Swiss Army Knife” for example, such as a coconut shell that can become briquettes, also coconut husk can become cocopeat, coconut fiber for a mattress, the water can become drunk with original flavor or with variant taste, the coconut also can become copra, the meat can be topping for dessert, etc.
This makes coconut is an eco-friendly product, The benefit is to use every part of the coconut for not be wasted, and to transition for some other materials that is not friendly for the ecosystem and change it with just coconut parts.
The supplier will buy the coconut parts which are the coconut shells from several scavengers to meet the charcoal demands.
Then the supplier will process these shells to become a dust of charcoal and will be shaped as coconut charcoal briquettes, the shape is customizable and according to importer request.
Selecting the right shipping line for transporting charcoal briquettes is crucial for a successful and cost-effective supply chain. Factors to consider include the shipping company’s experience in handling charcoal briquettes, their reputation for on-time delivery, and their understanding of the specific requirements for this type of cargo, such as proper packaging and handling to prevent damage.
And why it’s crucial? Because in the shipment for coconut charcoal briquettes, there are only two shipping lines who accept briquettes, it is MSC and MAERSK.
The forwarder will handle the product delivery, from the trucking to the cargo ships.
After the container has already been put down in the cargo ship, then this ship will go to the international port which is the mother ships come.
If the briquettes are from Indonesia, the products have to be transit in the port of Singapore, and then will be delivered by mother vessel.
These are the big cargo ships that lift hundreds of containers across the region, and it has their delivery path/road.
After these ships finished their journey, the briquettes will be lifted up and put in the port of the destinations.
This forwarder 2 means a forwarder from the country destinations. This forwarder can be ordered by the supplier or by the importers itself, it depends on the incoterms.
After this, you can restuffing the container and put the products in the trucking of the forwarder so it can be delivered to your manufacturer or warehouse.
If importers have their containers and trucks, then it will be much less costly. But most importers also use forwarders as their shipment partners.
