2014 Young Freight Forwarder of the Year Award Competition Multimodal Transport Operations in Practice: Radioactives and Abnormals From and to South Africa Submitted 29th April 2014 | Page | 1 TABLE OF CONTENT 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................................................. 4 2 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................
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CHAPTER TWO DEVELOP AN END-TO-END PROCESS ARCHITECTURE The first step in executing a supply chain strategy involves designing a process architecture that maps out the activities of the entire supply chain. Companies with high-performing supply chains design an integrated architecture, in which Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return, and Enable processes work together in a highly coordinated fashion to provide an important source of competitive advantage. Although a daunting undertaking, it’s critical
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Kanan A. Jafarov Jlt, Cluster E, Global Lake View Tower, Flat No. 1307, Dubai 340581, UAE Mobile: | +97 1506 565 039 | Email: | kenan.jafarov@gmail.com | Professional Profile A dedicated and experienced business development professional with over 10 years’ management expertise within the Oil, Supply, Trade and Logistics industries. An enthusiastic and highly self-motivated individual who remains flexible to the changing demands of business environments, is able to develop and implement new
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List of Incoterms (international commercial terms) - CFR – Cost and Freight - the exporter must deliver the goods at the port of destination selected by the importer. Transport expenses are thus the responsibility of the exporter. The importer bears the expenses of insurance and unloading of the goods. Utilization of this term obliges the exporter to offload the goods for export, and to use only sea and inland waterway transportation. - CIF – Cost, Insurance and Freight – modality equivalent to
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the CMA CGM 3) The development 4) Setting-up in Morocco 5) Mission of the CMA CGM Section 2: A presentation of the actors of the port of Casablanca: 1) SOMAPORT, agency of exploitation of ports 2) The public actors of the sector of sea transport in Morocco Chapter 2: The ideal progress of a container Section 1: The technical aspects of the transportation of goods containerized 1) Definition of a container 2) The various types of containers Section 2: The journey of the container
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Phillip Orin Parmelee used a Wright Brothers Model B to travel 65 miles carry 200 pounds of silk for the opening of a store. It was the first cargo only flight that was commissioned by a merchant solely for the transport of goods. Tis was also one of the first times multimodal transport was used to include aircraft since it was first moved by car. In 1911, the united states postal office experimented with the moving of mail by way of air and Germany followed in 1912. It wasn’t until 1925 before
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Briefly describe the logistics industry in this country and the workforce According to The World Bank Logistics Performance Index, the logistics industry in France is ranked number 13 compared to 160 countries, measuring at 3.85. Their highest ranking indicator was that of timeliness which may be contributed to their vast transportation infrastructure. Important segments within their logistics industry is wholesale and retail trade, transportation, accommodations and food services. Within industry
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“The maritime space is defined as a geographical system the end of which consists in connecting the continental spaces.” The sea transport is thus a privileged tool of the international exchanges which knew several revolutions to adapt itself over time to the evolution of the world exchanges. The sea transport is the domain the most mattering in the world of transport of the goods. He assures from now on more than 90% of the world traffic among which 85% of finished products are it by containers
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purchase and shipping of goods internationally. There are 11 different terms, each of which helps users deal with different situations involving the movement of goods. For example, the term FCA is often used with shipments involving Ro/Ro or container transport. INCOTERMS also deal with the documentation required for global trade, specifying which parties are responsible for which documents. Determining the paperwork required to move a shipment is an important job, since requirements vary so much between
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carriage of Nigeria's external trade (Badejo, 2002). The importance of this mode of transportation derives not only from its fundamental overriding economics and untapped marketing, but also from the lack of a more efficient alternative to maritime transport in the carriage of the nation's bulky external trade items. Apapa port, which is the focus of this write-up, is Nigeria's most important and largest port. It contains a number of wharfs and ranges of commodities are handled at this port. These include:
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