In the railroad sector, what is the difference between intramodal and intermodal competition? Which type of competition benefits shippers the most? What is the reason for this?

The typical pipeline company has high fixed costs. What economic factors account for this situation? What advantages and disadvantages does their cost structure present?

How do you think an intermodal transport system can make freight transport more efficient?

Why is it necessary to understand a country's transportation infrastructure characteristics?

For an airport you are familiar with, what are the main factors helping or restricting air cargo development?

Transshipping Company Limited (TCL) is a well established trucking company that transports goods from the port of Port of Spain to various destination within Trinidad and Tobago. TCL is seeking to upgrade it’s maintenance regime and recently published an open tender for Maintenance firms to provide routine services to their fleet of 100 trucks.   Massy Motors has a truck maintenance firm located in Port of Spain and is interested in providing TCL with maintenance services for its trucks and duly submitted a tender.   On the 1st February 2021, TCL informed Massy that they are the selected bidder to provide routine maintenance services for their trucks and require Massy to enter into an agreement with TCL. The contract was agreed by both parties and executed on 15th February 2021.   The contract contains the following provisions/terms; Massy will provide normal maintenance to certain trucks TCL is to pay Massy the customary maintenance fees.   Within one month of this arrangement,…

Discuss the length of haul and carrying capacity of the air carriers. Explain how they both favor and hinder air carriers from a competitive standpoint.

This page is related to Transportation and freight forwarding Project two Dalia, the CEO of ExpressMove, a 3PL, provides trucking-based transportation services as well as warehousing and distribution centres. The main focus of her company is on providing freight management and contract logistics. However, ExpressMove is a 3PL that does not own assets, so the managed services are provided by other providers. According to Dalia, the core competence of ExpressMove is in innovation, tech, people, and building and managing great relationship with both suppliers and customers. Dalia is considering a move to 4PL to serve a select set of customers. She has supply chain planning service in mind. This would be added to the more traditional services they are offering as a 3PL such as transportation and contract logistics. She believes that the next logical step for her company, given her track-record with the great customer service they are offering, would be towards a more consultation role,…

As a supply chain and logistics management student, you have completed key aspects of the discipline throughout your qualification, namely, management, logistics, procurement, sustainability, warehouse and inventory management. This question requires you to reflect on your knowledge and understanding of transportation management as a component of supply chain management. You are required to write a one-page report where you reflect on: Your experience of learning the discipline of transportation management. Which areas of this module did you find most interesting to learn about? Have you learned anything interesting from a SADC perspective? Which areas of this module did you find most challenging to learn about? Why? What are some of the skills you have learned thus far (i.e., reflection, critical thinking, technology, artificial intelligence – or any other) that you believe will be able to assist you once you have graduated? In your opinion, based on what you have learned, do…