Cargo

article that is being reviewed addresses some of the issues with the different modes of operation in the shipping industry, which are industrial, liner, and tramp shipping. In industrial shipping the company that owns the cargo also owns the ships, and the goal is to transport the cargo and minimum cost. In tramp shipping ships perform transportation task in order to maximize profit, this can be compared to a taxi system. In liner shipping, ships follow a set itinerary and schedule, almost like…

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…

This insurance generally offers coverage such as contingent broker auto liability, contingent broker cargo liability, general liability and property insurance. Ask for a copy of this certificate for your records, and follow up by searching for the company on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCA) website. There, you can verify that the insurance…

Introduction The cargo shipping industry is an international business commerce. It is included four main segments: container shipping, roll-on and roll-off, bulk shipping and tanker shipping. The top 15 success industries focus their business on Asia-Europe and Asia-North America shipping lanes, which accounted for approximately 80% (‘Case Study: Meli Marine’ 2015). Meli Marine, another shipping industry in Singapore, has already been attracted to expand their international business into the…

Untrained African 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…

statement “We move global trade,” Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd is Korea’s largest and one of the world’s top ten container carriers. Hanjin Shipping operates approximately 60 linear and tramper services around the world, transporting over 100 million tons of cargo annually. The Company commands different types of vessels including 170 container vessels, liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, bulk carriers, and oil tankers. As a marine transportation services provider, Hanjin Shipping has four regional…

today. Poor cybersecurity practices could lead to a number consequences, including lost cargo, delays, disruption, physical or environmental damage. Equally significant is the effect on our economy if ports around the U.S. were to suffer catastrophic cyber-attacks. In 2014, U.S. seaports contributed $4.56 trillion to the economy of which “$4.3 trillion was the economic value created by the movement of cargo through seaports” (DHS, 2016, p. 3). The second, and perhaps less obvious,…

3. Occurrence of the Accident/Incident The freighter SS Fort Stinkine which is a cargo ship arrived at Bombay on Friday, 12 April, 1944 No one in the Dock area was aware about the dangerous cargo which she was carrying. Normally a red flag has to be flagged to indicate the explosive but avoided due to war time.Emergency A certificate has been issued by the Dock yard higher officials to unload it in priority basis. Unloading of the ship commenced immediately. However while unloading the lube…

To start with, a 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…

Introduction For my next few weeks of training we still focused on safety and how to implement different types of safety plans and precautions. And how it can affect the operators and them working safely and in a proficient manner. So for another part of my initial training for Assistant Supervisor was focused on loads and different types. Ranging from containers exports and domestic loads and, their arrangements. For some of the different loads there are different requirements that has to…