Imagine trying to get the day's catch from Alaska fishermen ready for consumers in Japan and around the world. Imagine coordinating the arrival of sea salt from California -1,700 miles away-in a variety of forms, coarse to fine, to coincide with that Alaskan catch. And finally, imagine making it all happen, on a budget, while the clock ticks. No wonder seafood customers in Alaska turned to Cargill.

Cargill helped forge several solutions to this logistical problem. By sharing shipments with a packing carton supplier, and by combining the heavy salt together with lightweight packaging in the same cargo container, freight efficiencies were maximized. To ensure that remote Alaskan fishing villages had plenty of sea salt when the catch was fresh, instead of receiving it weeks later on the next barge, Cargill coordinated deliveries through Seattle on an exact shipping schedule. And to ensure that the salt used for packing salmon roe en route to Japan met the stringent Japanese standards for natural sea salt, Cargill helped separate the salt supply chain. 

Keeping an affordable supply of high-quality salt arriving when and where it's needed may not be the world's most important job. But for a commercial fisherman in Alaska, it's pretty close. 

This is how Cargill works with customers.