[ Industries · FMCG ]
Built for the pace and complexity of FMCG.
Food, beverage, pet care, household and personal care. Volumes that feed global brand supply chains on tight retail calendars — with the accountability brand owners expect.
400,000+ TEU
of FMCG managed last year
30%
average annual growth over the last 10 years
6 continents
with inbound and outbound FMCG flows
8 in 10
customers have trusted CSA for more than 15 years
[ Consumer Retail ]
Peak season is won before it begins.
Demand
In consumer retail, demand concentrates around immovable sales windows
Christmas assortments, garden furniture, major sporting events and other seasonal ranges often move at the same time as everyone else's cargo. When space and equipment tighten, a low rate alone offers little protection.
Peak-season
Many peak-season failures appear operational but begin in procurement.
Contract priority tier, equipment protection and volume performance during quieter periods can determine which cargo moves when networks are under pressure. If these elements are not aligned, containers can be rolled despite available allocation - and time-sensitive goods can arrive after their commercial moment has passed.
Solution
Protect access to space and equipment when the business needs it most
CSA evaluates each carrier's product and commitments against the customer's seasonal profile. We pursue the right balance of commercial competitiveness and resilience, helping protect access to space and equipment when the business needs it most.
[ Electronics ]
Launch dates do not move with vessel schedules.
Product launches
Major product launches compress months of demand into a small number of shipping weeks.
Marketing is committed, channels are waiting and consumers expect availability across every market. A gap in ocean capacity can therefore become a commercial problem long before it becomes a logistics KPI.
Capacity management
Sharing a forecast with the carrier is not enough.
CSA continually reviews rolling demand, monitors the freight market and engages carriers to keep capacity aligned with the launch plan.
Allocation discipline
The balance matters
Too little capacity puts the launch at risk; too much can weaken contract performance and future carrier support. Our allocation management keeps the plan calibrated to the volume the business actually needs, when it needs it.
"They run our freight the way we run our brands — with discipline."
What clients tell us
VP procurement, global FMCG
[ Other industries ]
Same operating standard. Built for your category.
[ Talk to procurement ]
Send us your top trade lanes and typical volumes — an experienced operator will come back with a benchmarked rate, a clear view of how we'd run the work, and a straight answer on which procurement mode fits.