OCEAN TRANSPORTATION

Ocean transportation is very important transport for international trade. Compared with another transportation, the transportation of heavy and bulky goods is more convenient by sea. Other than that, ocean transportation such as ferry is use for carry passengers to their destination. That because of the time taken to reach their destination a bit longer, so that it become decline for certain journey and country. Nowadays, the carrier used ocean transportation for deliver the shipment to another countries even take a long time.

The specific types of carrier are liners, tramps and private vessels. All of that provides specific service features to the international transport user. For the first one is liners. Liners are the ships that apply fixed routes by follow the schedules. They usually charges based on container. Liner services are either container or break-bulk types. For transfer the freight to the liner, the freight is loaded by machine just for bulk. While for containerized that use crane to load the freight. Because a ship is only earning revenue at sea, it is easy to see why containers have become a dominant form of packaged-goods shipping. The second one is tramps. Tramps can be categorized as a chartered because it can be leased. Time charters are usually in long-term charters which the shipper will make or arrange more than one-way movement. It is only focus on for the bulky For the last one is private vessels. This is private ships that use for owned. This ships are more flexible compared with tramps and liners. Many oil ships are fix with this category, as do automotive and lumber vessels.

So that, as a human, we can’t move or carry the heavy shipment to anywhere as fast as possible. Not only that, we also can’t transfer or transmit the shipment to another country. To overcome this problem, human generate something that will help them to complete the activities as usual. Such as they build ship for the ocean transportation.

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The Urban Transit Challenges

Urbanization is known of a process as a growing share of the global population lives in cities. Considering to this trend, urban transportation issues are of foremost importance to support the passengers, cargo, and special categories of freight movement according to its characteristics requirements of large urban groups. For the motion of passengers, its actually give us the viewed for the movement of people within urban areas using group travel technologies such as buses and trains. When it is referred to many people are being carried in the same vehicles linking origins and destinations both internal and external to the urban area.

Conceptually, the benchmark for urban transport is to fulfill the demand for accessibility with an efficient and effective in order to give the best satisfaction towards customers for the motion services. Here, we are focusing more on quality services provided as it played as a big role to achieve business’s objectives. This service gives concern on several kind of facets such as economic, social, environmental and safety. As it’s involved the moving between both origin and destination within the center of the city, thus there are still several challenges that ought to give high concern.

 Literally, the development of urban transport and the improvement in public services, particularly passenger transport, influences the population’s time budget. Its mean, the innovation made for the transportation that used high technology will resulted to the better service. In any kind of businesses area that provide variety of services, the better services gives as a benefit to the firms as they can generate and even more revenue considering to the continuously improvement worth themselves.

Other else, it’s a prominence facet for the services provider as the development of modern cities itself will result to the higher cost incurred by the firm. It’s depends on the developing of the city, for the cost that will be paid for the highway charges. Another else, the cost will highly increased due to the customs boarder for the charged of the freight in by the country they penetrate into.

Environmental also plays as big role for the transit involving more than one mode of transportation. The availability of facilities have had by any country such as the ocean port, and airport gives a big help in order to make the progress for transit system will be running smoothly. But it will become more complex and as the challenges, if the country doesn’t has a good facility. So then, the country should have to find another alternatives for the developing their city that will put them to the better position.

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AIR FREIGHT FORWARDER

When talk about Air Freight Forwarder, many country and companies have provide this services. In Malaysia also has a company that provide freight forwarding. For example is Essence Global Logistics Sdn. Bhd. This company is an agent that provides freight forwarding services by Air freight and Sea freight. It also provides a customs brokerage agents and trucking/transportation agent in most Malaysian airport/seaports or point of entry.

The mission of this company is to be the leader in the forwarding industry and the customers’ first choice for worldwide integrated freight forwarding logistics services. The activities of Essence Global Logistics Sdn. Bhd. is process all kind of shipments to and from any part of the globe. It is also facilitates the productive operation of organizing, serving and satisfying corporate needs.

Usually before we choose the freight forwarder company, we look their criteria which is reliability, competitive price, speed of service and far reaching. For reliability, as a customer, they want their shipments must be handled and delivered properly. This is because they want their shipments arrive to the destination in the good condition. That’s why customers want their service provider to be reliable. It is hard to get the trust of customers. When the customer satisfied with our service, they do not try to find another company because of the trusted. In addition, they are likely to recommend our company to other people who might be in need of the same service.

When the customer think of air freight services, the first thing that comes to their mind is about the price. Nature of the business, it is a common concept. The customer want the services at the lowest price but best services. If it is expensive and that not everyone can afford them. With the many competing freight forwarding in Malaysia services, there are already changes in the price. Before this, customers need to pay for the customs fee or rates but nowadays they can easily choose one provider that offers the best service at the lowest price.

The speed of service is one of the vital factors needed in freight forwarding service provider. That’s like the initial purpose of the shipments. It can be noted that the speed of the delivery should not compromise the quality of the shipments. The customer usually wants their shipments deliver and arrive on time. No wonder the speed is the important thing for this service. Without it, the shipments can never work.

For the last one is about accessibility. The shipment  are not only deliver on usual locations and famous places. There are also deliver the important materials or things to the anywhere they can reached. There should have one or two employees who should specialize in the familiarization of different localities. Essence Global Logistics Sdn. Bhd. is aware of what customer wants in their service provider. This is the reason why there are continuous updates on how the best way to improve the tools, machines and the personnel that they have.

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AIR CARRIER

Some may heard about air carrier, some may never heard of its facilities. Air carrier basically provides us the delivery of much kind of commodity or products. Air carrier facilitate user of transportation from goods, parts, animal, corpse until perishable goods but generally its focus on passenger user. There are various sized and types of air carrier such as belly space, flexbelly, freighter and lastly, truck. Precisely, it’s well known as the fastest transportation among any other modes of transportation. But to be compared to many other modes of transportation it charged a high level of cost transportation. Instead of its advantages there are some of its disadvantages which are they faces with poor accessibility problem where they need to transport freight to the airports then only it will be export to other countries.

Next, we will view directly on the factor growth in air cargo line which definitely expanded well for our country throughout this day. The growths of air cargo are absolutely fully depending on the government where they control the regulation and restriction. Therefore, deregulation should be implement for the country to be more independent which for example Malaysia already done for its exporting and importing products by applying the simple documentation. Other than that, the innovative of Malaysia Product to be export for market competition are one of the factors for the growth of air cargo. For example, there are some cosmetics products which internationally market like “Nouvelles” by the founders named Sosilawati Lawiya whom give it a try to her products international. Besides, there is a high demand for that carrier because of its characteristics which can deliver freight on the fastest lines of any other modes. Apart from that, the new air-eligible commodities happen to be the factor of the growth for air cargo. The reason is if there any perishable goods such as flowers, fruits and vegetables which need a special care and high speed to be transfer there is needed to send it as soon as possible by using air cargo. Therefore, it will maintain the freshness of the goods to be supply to the buyer. Above all, the factors of the growth for air cargo will definitely brings a lot of advantages towards the economy of the country. 

As all of us already knew, airline industry has their own features for the services provided. All the features lead this industry becoming among the popular mode of transportation used by many people around the world. One of the features in these airline services is they provide premium services. This means, their services better than other mode of transportation. As the service is more expensive, thus they are able to deliver many kind of product in a shorter period of time. It could be deliver either passengers or variety type of product or live animal. While actually, it all depends on demand for the shipment from different companies or customers. Through this industry, the shorter the operation of delivery for the product to the location requested resulted to the higher price charged towards the customers compared with other modes of transportation. Obviously, faster deliver also one of the attractive features had by the only airline services. As all the products will be combined from many smaller shipments into the larger ones placed inside the cargo, thus it very helped in reduced packaging and handling. Moreover, it automatically gives the benefit to this industry as they have higher security and safety along the way to the destination. 

 

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ADVANTAGE OF WATER CARRIER

Water transportation is also known as water carrier. Sea transport has been the largest carrier of freight throughout recorded history. Although the importance of sea travel for passengers has decreased due to aviation, it is effective for short trips and pleasure cruises. Transport by water is cheaper than transport by air. Air transportation is expensive because of high maintenance of the air plane. Sea transport can be over any distance by boat, ship, sailboat or barge, over oceans and lakes, through canals or along rivers. Shipping may be for commerce, recreation or the military purpose. Water transportation have a advantage and disadvantage. This article will discuss about the advantage water carrier.

The investment of water carrier not big like road, rail and pipeline mode because the way is free. Its natural. Its does not require any special infrastructure like roads and airport. Road transportation, the accessibility is limited because it must have road to reach destination. If don’t, it cannot reach to the destination. Not all the road in the world can access other country. Some must use air transportation; some must using seaways to access. Water carriers have an accessibility to reach other country. Its also can access to most part of the world. By using the water carrier, it easy for user to transport the goods to the other country.

Water carrier consists of many type of ship. If we want to transport container, there is ship call container ship. There is a lot of ship that have a specialty to transport the goods. Every ship have their specialty.  It’s easy for user to choose what there want to transport the goods because the ship have many kind type of ship. It also have many equipment to make intermodals running smoothly. Intermodal is the change of mode of transportation. For example, ship bring the freight to the port, truck take the freight to factory to process the goods. This process call intermodal. 

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AL AIN DISTRIBUTION COMPANY

Some may never hear about this company, some maybe likely know about this whole distribution company was. But, Al-Ain Distribution Company (AADC) was in the best gratitude among other Abu Dhabi’s distribution company. This company is actually a public joint stock company publishes on 1 January 1999 with the Head Office at Al Ain. AADC focus on the distribution of water and electricity which cover the Eastern Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi included the Al-Ain city and its rural area. Talking about employees there are more than 1934 around the end of 2012 and they basically provides their services at the area of East Region of Abu Dhabi(Al Ain Region) which deliver to over one half million people. 

                               

AADC therefore take a keen concerned on this two party which is their customers and suppliers. In the corner of customer perspective, usually AADC strive for the best quality services to their clients. They adopt a long-term perspective of their client needs and interests. Strategic Planning will ensure services that meet their requirements and exceed their expectations. In the supplier perspective, they had established a long time relationship with their supplier. Prominently, there are some of the supplier had been supplying their products or providing their services to the company since the beginning. The relationship with our suppliers is reviewed periodically and depending on the requirement and market trend new partners are introduced to remain competitive and cost effective.

POWER DISTRIBUTION

Nowadays, Al-Ain Distribution Company had become one of the top companies among others which currently updates with the latest technological systems with a complete equipment and facilities. In order to assure the continuity of power supply to consumers they provided the latest equipment in the modernization of power distribution network. . In particular, electrical energy is one of the most important and dynamic factors affecting the national economy. Al Ain Distribution Company is always aware of the responsibility of maintaining, developing and strengthening the main distribution network to meet the requirements of expansion within the city of Al Ain and its outside regions , it fulfills that by using different methods and adopting  new ideas meant to strengthen the network and related control activities.

WATER DISTRIBUTION

Water is a daily basis needs for everyone in order to survive for everyday usage. Its emphasis the whole activity that we need to do for our daily operation. The water distribution system at Al Ain comprises of over 3,900 km of water pipelines, from 80 mm to 800 mm diameter and  8 water pumping station owned and operated associated plant which are owned and operated by Al Ain Distribution Company (AADC) and used for the distribution of filtered water to customers and commercial users.

AAs a result of implementing this project, Al Ain Distribution Company won the Abu Dhabi Award for Excellence in Government Performance for the class of the Technical Project for year 2009. More to the point, Al Ain Distribution Company received the award of excellence in the management of energy networks from the British establishment EA-Technology, being one of the world's leading companies in the maintenance of energy equipments through the application of digital mobile servicing system in the Middle East.

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FACTORS FOR TERMINAL LOCATION OF ROAD TRANSPORTATION

Terminal locations are known as a centre which covers a lot of logistics activities. It does play roles as a centre where changing trucking happens, packaging and labelling, pickup and delivery and many others that related with distribution. It provides with many facilities into serving their best to ease the user around the area. Do you know how the process of the product being delivered from the manufacturer until it goes through break-bulk situation and arrived safely at the destination? By multiple of manufacturer of different area the product will be offloading at the distribution centre and value added activities will occur such as packaging and labelling. Then it will uploading back and distribute to another location where it will go through another process. Next, we will discuss on the factors for terminal location such as accessibility and flexibility, strategic place, infrastructure and last but not least market area.

ACCESIBILITY

Accessibility had becoming one of the most important facets in locating terminal. It can be said that it must be locate at the strategic place thus there will be more advantage which worth for the service provider. This terminal was known as a distribution centre which determining the type of shipment that will be used based on the characteristics of product itself. Therefore, as it those truck bring so many kind of product demanding from different cost in Malaysia. Thus it wills definitely that these terminals are in a good accessibility. In fact, the distribution centre also involved the activity of pickup and delivery. This terminal can be located at one place surrounding by much type of manufacturing plants. This is because of definitely all those manufacturing will give high requested for delivering their products. So it will give a benefit to those terminals as they don’t have to worry, while the finished goods are highly available for distribute to many location requested. Other else, these terminal must be ensure they are accessible nearer to the highway. All of this, because it will become so much easier for those terminal to deliver their shipment are faster through the highway. Port also one of important facets that should have to give more concern, as it such a place who control the procedure for coming in and out of so many kind of products around the Malaysia as well.

FLEXIBILITY

While, in terms of flexibility, as firms are closer with so many accessibility factors, thus those firms become more flexible in order to fulfil request for delivering product to the location stated. In fact, firm must choose a very suitable and such a strategic place which will continuously worth to the terminal itself. Therefore, the firm are able to provide 24 hours services as they we currently closer to many accessibility.

MARKET AREA

In terms of market area there are many factors that involve for terminal location. So, to build the terminal we must alert about the market area for the terminal location. In terms of market area, the terminal should be nearer with customer and supplier. It is much easier for them to allocate the communication between customer and supplier. Thus, it will results a better customer services and deliver value towards the both party. In fact, the geographic significant could be one of the factors of locate the terminal at the location. The main purpose of looking on this perspective is to ensure that the terminals will be convenience for both customer and supplier. For example, usually any firms will definitely try to evade from building up the terminal near at the risky centre such as at the inaccessible area, forest, and volcano area. On the other side, customer satisfaction is directly being a big concerned for any company whom trying to maximized their profit. As terminal is known as the distribution centre where it needs to deliver the value added activities in the warehouse and distribute those product towards the customer. Thus, it needs to be close to the customer. Then only the value of an efficient and effective customer service will be provided towards the customer.

INFRASTRUCTURE

 The growth and development of the transportation does affects towards the country whereas we are able to seen assorted of infrastructure such as warehouse, terminals and distribution centre. Therefore, for the next factors for terminal location in the view of road transportation we are going to look more on infrastructure perspective. Let us look on the first view which is the distribution centre should be located at the place where it is facilitate with transportation. The beneficial that a firm’s could gain was they are able to deliver to anywhere and anyone by locating their centre at a place where it is facilitate with transportation. In fact, by having a good infrastructure, the pickup and delivery process can results well in terms of efficient management. Next, the infrastructure of the distribution centre should be complete with the material handling where it will directly easy to handle those break-bulk items and pickup the items. These will gives an efficient and effective delivery of the items.

STRATEGIC PLACE

If we want to buy a house, we have to choose the best strategic place. That wills same goes to the terminal, if we meant to build terminal. It must have strategic place to make the transportation run efficiently and smoothly. The terminal must near with demand. The reason is to reduce the cost such as fuel when coming to break bulk activity. It also can lower the level of transit time. Transit can be in low level and will be improved the customer services. For example, most of the distribution centres are located in the area of Pasir Gudang, Johor. Another factor was it must near with factory development. If the freight which we hold was defects, therefore the factory that near with the terminal can be repaired and packaging back when it comes to the goods, we don’t know what will happen during the journey. By using this ideas it can be a good benefit to the company.    

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