In various areas of economic activity under the logistics understand different concepts. For example, in the financial sector is the optimum management of financial resources in the information environment - optimal management of information.
But we are interested in transportation and logistics in the transport, respectively.
The most important function in the term logistics is the word "optimal". In whatever field you are not used logistics - its aim is everywhere the same - to optimize that whatsoever.
In the field of transportation logistics can be divided into:
1. Logistics fleet management.
2. Logistics of delivery.
The first is to optimize traffic flow so that there is no empty runs, since it is obvious that if the car went in one side empty, then lost money.
In the second case the problem is to minimize the time and financial loss, that is, simply, to bring faster and cheaper. Logistic also called a man who docks and binds it all together.
The choice between the speed of delivery and price of delivery depends on the ways in which we carry.
| Transport type |
Rate level |
Delivery time |
Air transportation |
1 |
1 |
Auto Transportation |
2 |
2 |
Railway |
3 |
3 |
Sea transport |
4 |
4 |
The most expensive and fastest - Air, the slowest and cheapest shipping.
Rarely shipment is only one mode of transport. This happens only when the carriage of goods by road and only from countries with which there is land communication. From the U.S., for example, transportation could not be implemented. Therefore, usually carried out by several transportation modes. Depending on where the ultimate recipient to be used by one or the other route. Obviously, the majority of transportation is carried by sea, the cheaper it will be. The choice of the optimum ratio of the route, timing and value and is called the transport logistics.
Take, for example, transportation from Shanghai (China) in Odessa, and try to bring the goods in different ways.
On the choice of type of transport is affected not only the need for urgent delivery, but also the weight of the cargo you carry. For example, if you have cargo weighing 20 tons , there are three options of transportation possible to transport air carriage , and auto and railway and the sea. However, in this case air transport will be very expensive. Trucking is not less expensive because they have to go through the whole of China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, moreover, since the carrier does not find the goods back, he was in the cost of transport in one direction lay empty and run the car back.
Typically, small loads (up to 500 kg up to 10m3) being taken airlines, from 500 kg up to 2000kg from 10m3-15m3 being taken Marine sales force or air + auto. 2000-24000 kg containers being transported in auto or sea + sea + railway
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