Information background: Developing a new transportation-system requires legal advice for evaluating regulations imposed by countries. For example EU establishes TIR-rules for movement of goods within the EU-region (UK-TaxTIR, 2013), CO2 emissions requirements (UK-CO2, 2013) and special licensees (UK, 2013) for truck-transportation. The labor-law cost and tax-reductions benefits for new investments should be determine before develop at self or joint transport solution Table one resume the general aspects for ABC transport system evaluation: Aspects to evaluate Maintain actual outsource transport activity Developed a joint venture with Suppliers and Customers Developed ABC wholly-own-transport system Short-run cost analysis and equilibrium point (Parkin, 2011) 1)Evaluate if increase demand is supported with actual structure fix-cost 2)Evaluate Costumers demand in long run versus project investment with mix-capital investment 3)Evaluate full investment project versus company cash flow Type of transportation options Actual: train, truck, boat and aircraft (not change) Route evaluation analysis (RE) for optimal transport system decision RE Delivery perform Actual system performs at same speed for customers (not change) Evaluate positive customers impact for increase speed Speed on delivery versus additional cost ( trade-off analysis) It is important to determine the road-map considering countries preferences such as: air-facilities (i.e. HK-facilities), road-rail facilities (i.e. Europe) and road-truck-facilities (i.e. USA). For deciding the optimal road-map-transportation it is important to determine: • Distributor-storages, , for example ABC should evaluate the benefits of changing actual warehouse for a duck-point warehou... ... middle of paper ... ... Hall. NZ. (2013) NZ transport analysis [Online]. Available from: http://ipond.nzta.govt.nz/reporting/performance/workspace/ihtml/OpenDoc?DocInstanceID=1&DocUUID=0000013eca4bba33-0000-0dd5-0a120385&DocVersion=1&isSmartcut=true (Accessed: 13 December, 2013). Parkin, M. (2011). Output and Cost. London: Person. UK. (2013) UK transport and distribution [Online]. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/transport-and-distribution-for-international-trade (Accessed 13 December 2013). UK-CO2. (2013) Planning CO2 [Online]. Available from: http://www.transportdirect.info/web2/journeyplanning/journeyemissionscompare.aspx?&repeatingloop=Y (Accessed 13 December 2013). UK-TaxTIR. (2013) EU Tansport Tax System [Online]. Available from: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/customs/procedural_aspects/transit/tir/transit_manuel_tir_en.pdf (Accessed 13 December 2013).
Thus, Europe and North America have comparable intensities of global trade and industry development within their prominent capacities. Each transport mode has different situations throughout their respective country allowing every mode to have a significant role in the global trade market. Therefore, it is crucial for the transport industry to refine their position and explore all avenues in the global market.
Finding ways to move goods from one point to another at a reasonable cost and within an acceptable time frame is a growing challenge for global businesses today. The costs and risks associated with transportation are increasing with the advent of globalization and low-cost-country sourcing. Even for companies with local operations only, they have to supply their products to various parts of a country which increases the costs and risks. Since the cost of gasoline has been on an upward trend, high level of efficiency in transportation is required to lower the costs involved and the risks associated with the costs. Costs concepts in transportation include economic, social and accounting costs. The risks and costs involved increases if the various modes of transport are used. There has been concern over many businesses failure to strategically think when they employ multimodal transportation services. Many businesses prefer the least expensive multimodal model instead of choosing the most effective; this trade-off is very expensive with hidden costs and risks increasing significantly (Molenaar, Anderson, Schexnayder, National Research Council (U.S.)., National Cooperative Highway Research Program., American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials., & United States, 2010).
It is the process of moving goods from their typical final destination for the purpose of capturing value or proper disposal
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Today’s organizations are faced with increasing levels of global competition, customer’s demanding value for their money and high stakeholders expectations on investment returns. Gattorna (2003), notes that firms are now pursuing supply chain management as a strategy to competitive advantage. Firms in a supply chain relate, transact, and partner on different levels; from product design and development to product delivery. Through supply chain management a firm pursues value creation through timely product delivery, cost management, inventory control and customer service (Beamon, 1999).They do so individually or through synergies formed with other organizations to increase customer service
Hong Kong is a famous international economic center with the 4th highest population density in the world (CIA, 2012). It consists of three main islands: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories. The rapid transit railway system connects business and residential centers in the three islands through harbor rails, which can be both run by train and vehicles. The system passes the area with high population density, like the Mong Kok Station in New Territories and the Central Station at Hong Kong Island (see Figure 1). On the land of New Territories and Kowloon, East Rail Line, West Rail Line and Ma on Shan Line are surface-street trams which provide both intra-island and inter-island services to Shenzhen in mainland China. The system also connects the main islands to the airport and Disneyland Resort on Lantau Island in the southwest through Airport Exp...
Coolcargo and Frito-Lay implemented technical solutions for agricultural-products transportation following customers’ requirements. Coolcargo developed a transport-system for maintain fresh asparagus at controlled temperature from production site in Thailand to final destination in UK (UOL, 2013). Frito-Lay developed a global agile supply-chain for manufacturing and distributing salty-snacks to end-customers that allows processing agricultural-products in less than 24 hours for flavor guarantee (PepsiCo, 2013).
The transportation & logistics industry is a form of industry that keeps people and products on the move, it includes airlines and airports, shipping companies, logistics service providers and other transportation companies. That’s why it is considered the backbone of modern global supply chains. In a place like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that has diverse geography with a dry desert and great temperature extremes and a large area of about 2.1 million square km, a transportation & logistics industry is a necessity. Imagine you need to move from one city to another (of course it will be so hard to cross large areas of empty deserts) you have only two options to transfer from one to another city; the first option is to drive and the second option is to fly and ship your car via a car transport carrier. The harsh climate in Saudi Arabia makes people to prefer using the second option, this cause the market of transport market to enlarge. Albassami International Group is one of the biggest companies established to satisfy those needs. It is considered one of the biggest companies specialized in vehicle transportation in the Middle East. The philosophy of the company is to serve the needs of the clients over the span of thirty two years, throughout which they constantly had an eye to the future by evaluating the most appropriate ways in which to make transporting clients’ vehicles via the best and safest answer. They operate round the clock to serve clients at all times.
We all use vehicles for transportation. People usually go to their desired destination either by driving their own cars or traveling in public transportation. Actually, it might be tough to choose that which one is the best selection for people to travel. Many people choose one of them according to their comfort while traveling and both of them have advantages and disadvantages in different conditions. Public transportation and driving own car both shares differences and similarities in many aspects, such as facility, cost, and comfort as well as traffic jam and accident occurrence.
This type of network provides different routes in which to deliver to the consumer, each having its own unique transportation method and delivery time. However, the average consumer is unaware of where the manufacture is, transport method, or supply chain commotion and generally base their satisfaction on overall price, quality, and reasonable delivery.
For formulating a more efficient transport pattern, there are some specific strategies. Firstly, government can encourage people to pay more attention to public transit. The actual data about transit use from most cities indicates that transit use is growing in many cities, in addition, some developed cities have been reducing their car use and pay more attention to the public transport (Newman, 1999). Encouraging urban citizens use more public transit is effective in reducing the quantity of private cars. It is generally known that private cars have brought great pressure on urban traffic. Secondly, government can restrict cars based on the “odd-and-even l...
Knowing how to apply the current trade standards, Incoterms, is one way of analysing the inbound logistics flows. This in order to understand what affect the inbound flows have on the total cost of the product. The choice of the right delivery term depends on many circumstances, such as the flow of goods, type of goods or components and customer service required. By choosing the delivery term that provides the company with the most responsibility and cost undertaking when it comes to inbound transportation, a company obtains the greatest possible control of the goods flows into and from the company. By having control of the goods flow, a company can make warehousing, production and transports more efficient, create routines and thereby cut costs.
It is considered a holistic approach that might be involved some factors providing an overall speed of journey (Mannering, Walter, and Scott, 2004). Wyatt (1997) states that the rail transportation has been made the urban areas to develop the transport network places with producing a good network to be placed over location with a poor network. For example in European Union (EU), the rail company had been employing around 570,000 people across passenger and freight operations in year 2012. From here, the rail transport is critical by the EU strategy to improve their economic condition. This rail sector had been makes a large contribution in oversea country.
Transportation is movement of people and goods from one location to another. Throughout history, the economic wealth and military power of a people or a nation have been closely tied to efficient methods of transportation. Transportation provides access to natural resources and promotes trade, allowing a nation to accumulate wealth and power. Transportation also allows the movement of soldiers, equipment, and supplies so that a nation can wage war.
“Logistic is the process of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient, effective flow of goods storage of goods, services and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements”