Engineering – Freight Transportation Freight Transportation and Logistics CE 453 / 553 Winter 2007 Dr. Chris Lecture 1 Winter 2007, Monsere 1 Introduction Civil & Environmental Engineering – Freight Transportation • Why is freight important? • How do civil engineers / transportation professionals affect freight mobility? • What is unique about freight when compared to passenger transportation? Winter 2007, Lecture 1 2 Introduction Civil & Environmental Engineering – Freight Transportation
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What you need to know about e-freight What is it? The airfreight supply chain faces increasing challenges: • Customers want faster transit times, lower costs and more reliability • Regulators want more security and demand electronic information in advance • Slow economic growth means less revenue Today the air cargo industry still relies on paper-based processes to support the movement of freight. The average airfreight shipment generates up to 30 different paper documents – increasing
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1. Introduction The Trucking industry in China provides road freight and cargo transportation services using trucks, cars, trailers and other road vehicles (ACMR,2). Trucking is a primary mode of overland freight, and it plays an important role in the whole area of transportation. As trucking is flexible, simple and convenient in freight, it has more advantages than by rail, air transportation for short distance transportation. 2. Analysis of trucking industry in China Since 1980s, China's economy
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Abstract This chapter analyses the freight rate mechanism in the shipping market. Sea transport is a derived demand where shipping demand occurs as a result of seaborne trade. The demand determinants affecting sea transport include government and political factors, the world economy, seaborne commodity trade, average haul, and transport costs. On the other hand, determinants for shipping supply are fleet size and operational efficiency. The shipping supply function shows the quantity of shipping
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Winnipeg transports 30% of the manufactured flour (150,000 MT) in rail cars to the packaging mills in Calgary (100,000 MT) and Toronto (50,000 MT). The objective of this assignment is to optimize freight options from Winnipeg to Calgary and Toronto in such a way that there are maximum net savings in freight costs. My decision is that we should ship and unload in the multiples of 100 rail cars from Winnipeg to Calgary and 50 rail cars from Winnipeg to Toronto. This strategy will result in annual
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characteristics leading to success and profitability of Marco polo logistics will be: Providing high-quality of service in markets which are currently either unserved, under-subscribed or poorly served by existing air freight, thereby setting a new trend and new pace in air freight service Employing cost-effective, skilled staff , updated regional aircraft which will be right for the competitive market and route, leading to the higher load factors, improved efficiency flexibility and reduced
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crunch. They create extreme challenges in the market for global transportation services. Just a few short years ago during the global trade boom, ports were testing the limits of their capacity, ocean carriers were placing orders for new ships, and freight customers were scrambling to find available containers and berths to move product to free-spending consumers. However, in a very short span of time, global trade has contracted and the transportation industry has scrambled to weather the lean times
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of times per month that shipments are delivered. The freight cost per delivery is set and that number is then multiplied by the number of deliveries per month. This number is then divided by 400, the required number of units per month to determine the delivery cost per unit. 3) Demand is already set at 400 units per month. This means they may as well go with the most cost-efficient option. W2 and T1 4) W2: FOB destination, freight collect: If you tell the shipper that you will pay the
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through air mail and air freight has grown tremendously. The first cargo flight ever took place between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio in November 1910, when a department store shipped a bolt of silk. Even though the shipment was of small size, the flight stayed in the records because it was achieved in less time than possible by train. Some time elapsed before the first commercial cargo airline was created. In the 1920s passenger carriers created entities to carry freight, but it remained a very
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elsevier.com/locate/resconrec Shipping news: the implications of electronic commerce for logistics and freight transport Markus Hesse * Department of Earth Sciences, Geographic Sciences and Urban Research, Free University of Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin, Germany Accepted 24 June 2002 Abstract The paper considers the significance of electronic commerce (e-commerce) for freight transport, logistics and physical distribution, regarding both business to business and business to consumer
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