Red Hook Crating LLC
Who Is the Client?
Red Hook Crating, based in Long Island City, New York, is an art moving company specializing in securely packing and relocating art. Known for its meticulous care and expertise, Red Hook serves a wide range of establishments, ensuring that delicate art pieces are handled with the utmost responsibility. Moreover, they are committed to delivering top-notch services to their clients by ensuring safe and efficient packing, crating, and transportation of fine art.
What Was the Issue?
Red Hook Crating struggled with slow and inaccurate cargo space planning. Specifically, their logistics team needed to quickly estimate cargo space while ensuring efficiency. As a result, the estimating process became time-consuming, which ultimately slowed down their overall operations. This was a major issue, especially in an industry where speed is crucial.
Key challenges:
- Slow cargo space calculations
- Inconsistent space utilization in shipments
- Time-consuming estimation process
- Lack of integration with internal databases
How Did We Help?
EasyCargo provided a fast and effective solution to these challenges, improving both speed and space utilization:
- Quick space planning: EasyCargo turned a process that used to take over an hour into a few quick minutes. This enabled Red Hook to provide faster estimates and improve efficiency.
- Maximized space utilization: With EasyCargo, Red Hook ensured better use of space in containers and vehicles. This led to fewer trips and reduced costs.
- Excel integration: EasyCargo’s compatibility with Excel allowed seamless data transfer from their internal system, speeding up the process and reducing manual errors.
What Are the Results?
Since using EasyCargo, Red Hook Crating has experienced notable improvements:
- Time savings: EasyCargo drastically reduced cargo space calculation time. As a result, a task that once took an hour now takes just minutes.
- Faster estimates gained a competitive edge: The faster space calculations allowed Red Hook to provide quicker estimates. Consequently, it helped them stay ahead of the competition.
- Increased efficiency: Additionally, thanks to the seamless integration into their existing systems, Red Hook was able to complete tasks faster, which in turn allowed more time for critical operations.
What Does the Client Say About Us?
“We would not have an exact time that is saved, but we can say that EasyCargo turns a 1-hour project into just a few short minutes easily. Moreover, EasyCargo allows our company to make more money, as we now know how to maximize our cargo space in a short amount of time. This, in turn, enables us to send out estimates much faster than our competitors. After all, we are in an industry where speed counts, so time is everything.
EasyCargo allows us to save invaluable time, which only adds to efficiency. EasyCargo is compatible with Excel. This helps us transfer pertinent information from our internal database directly into EasyCargo’s app for a fast turnaround. Simply put, EasyCargo says it all in the name: it’s super easy to use, and it saves you a ton of time and effort.”
— Red Hook Crating Team
