INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION

 Logistics is very important in our daily motions. There's so many factors that ought to be concern while implementing the movement of either the passengers, or freights. Those firms that provide transport services must have at least improvement towards their services. Or if the firms wants to put their level business to better position, they can do some innovation towards their kind of delivery of operation. Intermodal system is actually as the improvement for the transportation services itself. By implementing intermodal system in moving the finished product from the point of origin to the point of consumption, there are many advantages that will worth themselves.

Intermodal transportation referred to the movement of passengers or freight from one mode of transport to another, commonly taking place at a terminal specifically designed for such a purpose. This involves the use of at least two different modes in a trip from an origin to a destination through an intermodal transport chain, which permit the integration of several transportation networks. It becomes such a value added for carriers that provide this kind of service. This is because of, their services will ease the shipment requested by customers as it's directly arranging for the use of multiple mode of transportation in one single trip.

In other words, intermodality enhances the economic performances of a transport chain by using modes in the most productive manner. Conceptually, the key is that the entire trip is send as a whole, rather than basic transportation, each marked by an individual operation with separate sets of documentation and rates.

 

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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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