Cargo ship

There are many supply chain uses, costs, innovations, and future possibilities when it comes to picking the mode air. The mode of transportation, air, has many uses.. In the United States, American and Delta Airlines carries both passenger and cargo. According to Transportation in Supply Chain “An airline’s goal is to maximize the daily flying time of a plane and the revenue generated…

movement of goods and people from one place to another. In the United States, ships were one of the earliest forms of transportation that had a significant effect on trading. As the country became more industrialized however, fewer products were carried on ships because other modes of transportation grew in popularity. Today, most commercial goods are carried throughout the United States in freight trains, semi-trucks, and cargo planes. Despite recent favor directed towards other methods of…

better communication infrastructure, and specialized cargo companies depending on the Intermodal Loading Unit (ILU). These improvements are based on demand and supply of specific geographical areas where volumes of ILUs is high and it is attractive to private investors to operate and this applies to EU and US. One of the downturns is that if in a certain geographical area there is not an attractive level of demand, there is no railroad link and cargo has to be moved by truck which is…

Epic Boat trips: The Loop So you decided to take a long boat trip. Preparing for your long journey ahead can be one of the most exciting and/or terrifying parts of the trip. Everything from needing to know where you can fuel up, to how much food and water you need to have on board to be prepared for anything, is hard to plan for. Luckily for you, I’m here to help with some advice and provide other resources for you to check out to be fully prepared for your boat trip. The Loop: The Loop…

American soldiers had to load the ammunition while white soldiers commanded them. Some of this ammunition included small caliber bullets, incendiary bombs, fragmentation bombs, depth charges, and bombs up to 2,000 pounds(Browne). The cargo nets were lowered by the ships booms into a hatch, where they were packed layer by layer and secured with dunnage. The job was very dangerous and the proper precautions were often not taken. According to Captain Nelson Gross, commanding officer at Port…

proper definition given for liner shipping would be: “the service of transporting goods of high-capacity, ocean-going ships that transit regular routes on fixed schedules” World Shipping Council (2017). Nowadays there are almost 400 liner services in operation, most of them providing weekly departures from different ports. Liner vessels in the form of containerships and RORO ships carry about 60 percent of the merchandise by value moved internationally by sea each year. There to here in a…

crossing, after leaving the East Coast is when the Maersk Ohio typically carries around 3200 TEU’s (Capt Leville). While leaving Le Havre, France we were typically fully loaded with around 4120 to 4140 TEUs (Voyage Abstract). To maximize revenue the ship would want to carry around 700 Reefer Containers on both directions of the Atlantic Crossings. However, some additional considerations must be mentioned that could cause delays in the passage as well as the loading/discharging…

With the expansion of maritime and intermodal transportation, older ports with limited real estate must remain possible options to move cargo. There are some ways, in which the older ports like Baltimore, Philadelphia, and others with limited real-estate available for expansion would be able to compete with bigger newer ports. Improvements would be critical in improving the ports productivity to compete with the newer larger ports. The majority of ports and terminals were built for a volume of…

Special Air Cargo There are several categories of special air cargo for which airlines and air cargo operators must provide accommodations. Three of these categories are: high value cargo, perishable cargo, and hazardous materials. When an airline accepts this special cargo for transport, it must provide special equipment to handle the cargo, specialized warehouses to store it or trans-ship it, and sometimes specially configured aircraft to transport it. There are also international and…

According to the America Trucking Association, 70 percent of all U.S freight by tonnage is moved by truck. This is projected to be 9 billion tons yearly. The movement of these freights needs competent and devoted drivers. However, one of the challenging factor regarding the industry is the shortage of truck drivers. The shortage has resulted to be one of the greatest challenges for the United States shipping industry as well as the economy. The above-mentioned shortage has a dribble down…