Forwarders near the airport for fresh fish exports
Forwarders and cold stores near the airport, approved for fresh exports.
What it does
Every quarter: freight forwarders and cold stores within 20 km of the airport, the best-rated first, approved by the export manager, for flying fresh fish out the same day.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Nairobi, find freight forwarding services and cold storage facilities in the area, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Fresh fish exports depend on a fast cold chain to the plane. Approved partners make it reliable.
Who it is for
Fishing & aquaculture. Fishing cooperatives, fish farms, seafood traders and fisheries authorities watching the sea and the weather and selling the catch fresh. Every use case for fishing & aquaculture
Best use cases
- A seafood exporter
- A fish farm
- A trade promotion agency
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Around the airportWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Forwarders and cold storesxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Approve the partnersLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Update the export partners sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
More for Fishing & aquaculture
- Seafood restaurants to sell to directly: Seafood restaurants offered fish landed the same morning.
- Fish processing plants to buy from our farms: Processing plants scored as buyers for farmed fish.
- Go or stay: wind at sea for small boats: A go or stay note for small boats, the evening before.
- Fishing boats inside a marine protected area: Fishing boats inside a protected area, to the officers every hour.
- Fishing tackle shops for my gear distribution: Tackle and marine shops with the owner, for gear sales.
- Hot days at fish farms: oxygen risk: Oxygen and feeding advice for each fish farm before hot days.