Cluster 22 of 28. Ideas 426 to 435
Transport and logistics at village scale
The mechanism
The village cannot get a box to the container port. The gap is small firms, not big ones.
The 10 ideas
- 426Motorbike courier networks in the districts for the small exporters' parcels
- 427Shared depots where twenty producers fill one container
- 428Refrigerated three-wheelers for the fish and dairy trades
- 429Tourist shuttle services on fixed routes and published timetables between the sites
- 430Airport transfer companies with drivers trained, insured and rated
- 431Luggage-forwarding for tourists, so they can walk the hills and meet their bags at the coast
- 432Bicycle hire and repair in the tourist towns and the flat districts
- 433Boat-taxi services on the lagoons and the reservoirs
- 434Customs-paperwork offices in the district towns, so the exporter does not travel to Colombo
- 435A packaging-materials supply chain at the district level: boxes, tape, labels, ice