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How Berlin Packaging saved $1.57M in shipping costs while reducing CO2e emissions

By shipping ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Direct®, Berlin Packaging experienced significant cost savings, more on-time deliveries, and sustainable optionality that scales.

Key wins

Damage-free loads
3,000
Costs saved
$1.57M
Terminals skipped
7,458
Emissions saved
1,137
metric tons of CO2e
*Emissions and terminals skipped statistics are based on ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ internal data from June 2020 - August 2023
Founded
1898
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Company size
2,000+
Primary Industry
Packaging

The headwinds.

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Since its founding in 1898, has been helping its customers increase sales, reduce costs, and boost productivity with the support of over 200 packaging consultants in more than 100 offices around the world. As the world’s only Hybrid Packaging Supplier®, Berlin Packaging offers a variety of packaging solutions for consumers and businesses across almost every industry.

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Berlin Packaging’s valuable products and services play a major role in packaging supply chains. Metal containers, dispensing systems, plastic, and glass are just a few of the billions of packaging components that the company produces and sells.

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Before finding ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, Berlin Packaging relied on traditional less than truckload (LTL) shipping, which resulted in unreliable transit times, damage, and excess LTL and partial (PTL) costs.

“We’ve dealt with many LTL costs. Whether we’re hit with accessorials or hidden fees, LTL has created headache after headache for us.â€

Todd Birman
Sr. Manager of Domestic Transportation | Berlin Packaging

The solution.

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The team at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ analyzed Berlin Packaging’s shipment profiles and network, and recommended our guaranteed terminal-free ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Direct® service, which moves shipments via an alternative mode—Shared Truckload (STL).

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With ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Direct®, Berlin Packaging’s shipments are matched and combined with other freight going in the same direction to create a full load. The freight stays on the same truck, with the same driver, all the way to its destination, and they only pay for the space they actually need.

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Berlin Packaging secured its first Shared Truckload shipment with ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ in April of 2020. Now, Berlin Packaging books this service for all types of shipments. In fact, 80% of Berlin Packaging’s Shared Truckload shipments are larger than 12 linear feet.

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While Berlin Packaging hasn’t stopped shipping LTL altogether, the company says ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s Shared Truckload service is “superior to LTL by a long shot.â€

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Cost savings ↘

“ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Direct® is the core of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½. We use ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ to reduce our costs.â€

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Quality Service ↘

“We use ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ to improve service with Shared Truckload.â€

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Sustainable partnership ↘

“ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ found us at the right time and place. As we did more research, the company’s ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Direct® service seemed to have an answer to many of the issues we were facing. We were also drawn to ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s status as a B Corp.â€