Task No.1 – Commercial and Safety Considerations Apply to Loading, Carriage and Discharge of Dry Bulk Cargoes
Speaking about the commercial and safety considerations applying to loading, cariage and discharging of dry bulk cargoes, it should first be said that a specific definition for bulk carriers carrying dry bulk cargoes, is mentioned to the merchant ship which is specially designed so as to transport unpackaged bulk cargoes, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds (Alderton, 2004).
Since the first specialized bulk carrier that was built on about 1852 actually, various economic forces have also fueled the development of those ships, by causing them to grow appropriately in size and sophistication also. Bulkers in ourdays are considered to be specially designed so as to maximize a capacity, safety, efficiency and in advance to be able to withstand the rigors of their work in various ports they call (Alderton, 2004).
The procedures of loading, carriage and unloading a bulker, they are considered to be also time-consuming and dangerous. The whole process of loading, carriage and unloading, it is planned by the ship's captain, often upon the provision of assistance from the person of chief mate
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As the hold is filled, the machines such as the excavators and bulldozers are often considered to be used so as to keep the cargo in check. The leveling is also particularly important when the hold is only partly full and since cargo is about more likely to shift. Any extra precautions are also taken, like the adding of the longitudinal divisions and by securing the wood atop the cargo irrespectively. If a hold then is full, a technique which is called tomming is also used as it involves the digging out of a 6 feet, i.e. 2 metres hole below the hatch cover and filling it with a bagged cargo or weights (
The Shipping Manager’s activities required a different approach. He used coordination through formal hierarchy. The Shipping Manager assigned the Team Leader tasks that required more supervision and resources. He gave an order to the Team Leader who divided it among his Pullers. The Pullers would enter the tunnel, assemble the order from the various coolers and send it down the track to the awaiting loaders. The Loaders would remove their assigned color-coded stacks and put them in the appropriate trucks for delivery. This process did not require special training but it did require more direction from the Supervisors than the warehouse functions.
The current location and positioning of some of the racks has required the shipping and receiving operator to unload the parts manually by hand, when they should be unloaded with a fork truck. With the racks dispersed out from one end of the facility to another, it takes the shipping and receiving operator longer to unload the material than if the racks were placed in a more centralized area. The utilization of the inventory racks has also become a problem that operators face on a daily basis. Inventory racks should have more commonly used material in the middle for easy access and rarely used material on the top. Due to the way the racks are organized currently, each shelf contains a mixture of several different materials including scrap pieces mixed in with new pieces. Many inventory racks house more than one material per
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Along the wooden platform lay hundreds of trunks and bags, piled haphazardly, ready for loading onto a Chicago-bound train. During rough handling in the baggage room, the lid of an ordinary, 2'8" by 18" packing trunk had cracked open, releasing the foul stench. The porter immediately called Robert Vandeward, the baggage-master.
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The Provision Master for the first supply chain is required to prepare a list of materials needed for the next cruise or sometimes for a few upcoming cruises and to disperse the inventory to various cost centers on the ship which based on the cost centers’ requisitions.
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Logistic management encompasses all materials flows management, from the inflow of purchased materials into works (i.e. materials planning of raw materials components and other products, transport of materials from suppliers to works, receiving and inspection and storage of materials) materials flow through manufacturing processes (i.e. materials issues and materials handling) and material (flow to customers (physical distribution (Refer fig.1 for these relationships)
In logistic industry, they have been through lots of challenge in worldwide market. As the containerization of the global economy scopes, a phase of development and explanation, ports find themselves inserted in ever changing commercial environment where logistics is the forefront. Thus, this industry reaches a phase of maturity and rationalization due to the process of logistic on land.
Private persons, big and small businesses at a point would have to either send or receive parcels, shipment, among other things. This cannot be done without the help of cargo companies, which are highly involved in the process of transportation of goods and services from one point to the other, but in short and long distances. And the demand to have this parcel and shipment delivered in a faster and more secured way , has brought about a high competition among several companies in the world , and they all have adopted both similar and also different measures to tackle the issues they deal with in the delivering order and tracking issues.
Below lists the some obligations of the carrier in handling cargo before and after shipment:
Preceding from this understanding and being a logistics staff officer, my carrier is full of logistics proble...
For a CVC, there is a risk factor element for the owner as the owner will obtain lesser freight if the vessel does its voyage trip as quickly and consecutively due to weather issues or otherwise. Due to this peculiarity of this particular type of charter party, there is a tendency for the charterer to abuse it. As such, there should be an element of caution when it comes to determining rates of freight and
Water transport is not flexible because it is restrained within water bodies. The use of containers has becomes the best inter-modal option for water transport whereby goods are placed in containers and transported through truck or rail to the port where it is loaded in to a container ship. Upon arrival to the destination port it is offloaded and transported again by track or rail to the consumer of customes.This helps reduce staffing needs, transit time and damages (Haulk, 1998).