Container terminals and depots near my customers
Container terminals and yards near each customer site.
What it does
Every year: container terminals and container service yards within 30 km of each customer site in your table, the best-rated first, for planning empty container pick-ups.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take your table, find container terminals and container services nearby, remove duplicates, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Empty containers are picked up where they wait. The nearest yards save a trip.
Who it is for
Logistics, fleet & delivery. Dispatch, fleet and delivery teams who keep goods moving around closures, weather and ports. Every use case for logistics & delivery
Best use cases
- A trucking company
- A freight forwarder
- An exporter’s logistics team
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 60 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.
- Customer sitesYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Container yards nearbyxMap 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.
- Each yard onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
- Update the container yards 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.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- How to monitor road closures near your sites: Every few minutes, the incidents that affect your sites or fleet.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
More for Logistics, fleet & delivery
- Daily operations briefing for every hub: A daily operations briefing per hub, with a risk score and alerts for the risky ones.
- Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: most people per warehouse first.
- Incidents near my drivers’ zones: Incidents near your drivers' zones every 15 minutes, to dispatch.
- New warehouses and distributors to sell to: New warehouses and distributors, scored, with the operations manager, into HubSpot.
- Road closures near my depots, every hour: Closures and roadworks near each depot every hour, to dispatch on WhatsApp.
- Shops to host parcel pick-up points: Shops scored as parcel pick-up points, with the owner.