Shared depots where 20 producers fill one container

A first step

List the producers in one district who export, or want to, but cannot fill a container alone: spice growers, coconut processors, craft makers. Ask each how many pallets they could send and when, then take the combined list to a freight forwarder and ask the price of one shared container. The proof is 20 producers committed to one shipment date.

Who pays first

A small exporter who has had an order from abroad but could not fill a container, and pays for a share of one instead.

What leaves today

Small producers sell to consolidators who export under their own name and margin; a shared depot lets the producer export and keep that margin.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. TwoAn Island Nobody Has Counted
  The harbour on the main sea lane
• Ch. FourteenThe List
  Defend the port before expanding it

More from cluster 22

• 426Motorbike courier networks in the districts for the small exporters' parcels
• 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

All 10 ideas in this cluster