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

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.

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,…

Explain why smaller shipments are challenging to transportation managers

Explain how to determine the number of variables and constraints in a transportation problem when only the number of sources and the number of destinations are known. Be sure to provide examples to illustrate your understanding of these concepts.

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…

What are the major trends and issues in ocean transportation? How does this impact global supply chain operations?

Pipelines account for more than 20 percent of the intercity ton-miles but less than5 percent of the revenue paid by shippers to transportation companies. What factorsaccount for this contrast? Is this situation likely to change? Why or why not?

Central Transport, Inc.   Jamie Corman, the new president and CEO of Central Transport, recently met with Susan Weber, the current president and CEO of SAB Distribution. Jaime was promoted from CMO at Central Transport to CEO. Her predecessor had worked closely with the former CEO of SAB Distribution when SAB had transformed its operations about 10 years earlier to respond to changes in its competitive marketplace. Now, Ms. Weber was faced with new challenges and again needed the collaboration of Jaime and Central Transport to meet some new challenges.   Susan has met extensively with the members of her executive team to develop a tentative plan for modifying the strategic direction of SAB and thwart the buyout of the company by a private investment firm.   Susan was convinced that SAB could attract additional retailers in the mid-Atlantic states if it added to and improved its logistics services, namely, warehousing, transportation delivery, and inventory management. However, Susan…