1. Assume that you are Weiss. How many viable alternatives do you have to consider regarding the intial shipment of 25 buses?
In a broader perspective you could take extrapolate four viable soulutions but if you were to focus on the two primary cities then two viable soulutions present themselves. The solutions being a departure October 24th from Hamburg or the October 23rd departure from Rotterdam.
2. Which of the routing alternatives would you recommend to meet the initial 90-day deadline for the 25-bus shipment? Train or Waterway? To which port(s)? What would it cost?
Due to the importance of time in the matter the best option would be to use the railways rather than waterways considering that by water 3 days would be added to the neccesary time.
If we calculate the rail expenses from Prague to Hamburg it totals €173,184((€1,643*13 flatcars)+(€45*25 buses)+(€25*20buses + €40*5 overtime charged buses) + (€6,000*25 buses)). For Prague to Rotterdam via railway the cost totals €169,584((€1,943*13 flatcars)+(€45*25 buses)+(€25*20buses + €40*5 overtime charged buses) + (€6,000*25 buses*€.95)). While Rotterdam would garner a slightly larger profit the gap between the two options is negligible. One might want to consider the overall service quality.
Assuming that the given transit times are realiable. The Praugue to Hamburg and then to Santos option seems a much more appealing option due to the advantage of time. A definitive 21 days to reach Santos as opposed to the second which totals around 21-22 days.
3. What additional information would be helpful for answering question 2?
There are a variety of thins to consider. What is the percentage on how often merchandie gets damaged between any of the port locations. Also what...
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...burg by waterway since it is cheaper (€48 per bus). Despite that, each bus would sell at about €124,500. Which means that the money you save on the shipping would be negligable. Leaving, if need be, the railway option. As long as time isn't an issue the best shipping option would be by waterway because it is the cheapest without comprimising any known service quality. Also it find favor with the Green Movement.
8. How important, if at all, is it for N.A.M. to ship via water to show its support of the Green movement’s desires?
It N.A.M. chose to not ship the buses via waterway it would not be of terrible concern in regards to the Green Movement. This being because Green Movement has not expressed disfavor with shipping by railway but rather with shipping by truck. As long as N.A.M. does not ship via truck they should find no real trouble with the Green Movement.
About 3,073 years in close proximity. This took trade across seas! This was also how the Silk Road was Forgotten.boat travel became popular, less expensive, and easier to carry bigger loads. On Doc A, the map shows a series of dashes across the Mediterranean Sea. This represents the route to Rome by boat.
When the country was founded, the geography was a bigger obstacle than it is today. Before the Industrial Revolution, the primary way to move anything was on water. Rivers and Oceans were the original roads and the fastest and least expensive way to move goods. Most of the population "[was] located either at tidewater or along broad, navigable streams that could not be used to produce much water power" (Nye 44). These geographic features made it possible to move items to areas further away from the coast. Moving things one of the three modes of land transport, "by foot, on a horse, or in a wheeled vehicle" (Cowan 94) were too expensive and difficult with no developed roads. People began to look for ways to make this travel more affordable by creating waterways like the Eire canal to connect places. However, most were unsuccessful and the idea passed. Steam engines also made river travel more feasible. It was not difficult to take a barge full of goods down river; however, it would take months to pole the boat back upriver and usually was not even attempted.
Shipping goods through Detroit to the Port of Halifax provides the opportunity to use vacated industrial centers by repurposing these facilities for transshipment and manufacturing. Detroit as a transshipment hub provides a distribution system for goods to move to worldwide markets. Many manufacturers have failed due to a lack of an adequat...
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The development of canal, steam boats and railroads provided a transportation network that linked different regions of the nation together. When farmers began migrating westward and acquiring land for crops, cheaper forms of transportation provided the means to transfer their goods to other regions for s...
The rail systems put into place in Chicago have always been a major factor in freight transportation. The city provides a centralized hub for the railways throughout the country. After a long run the system is bound to find flaws as old technologies are passed by new ones. The existing railroad structures have in time taken a toll over the years of service. “The railroad system of Chicago has been around for a long time now. After many years it has gone past time time of despair. With the new project it is hoping to bring the popularity back to where it once was” (Chicago Transit Renovation to Improve Service). This update needed will guide Chicagos railroad system into the future. The city also has to take a look on how it is going to keep up with the constant increase of railcars on their tracks. With the new technologies of the future Chicago can only make their infrastructure better. The aim is to stay on time with the railcars to diminish the amount of overcrowding presented in the old rail systems in Chicago.
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In 1995, an important event marked a victory for the national GreenPeace organization, and for humans alike. The Brent Spar oil installation was not allowed to be dumped into the ocean. The importance of this decision lied in the fact that there were over 600 oil installations that would someday expire just as the Brent Spar had. When the decision was made to not allow the dumping, it set a precident that the other installations would not be allowed to be dumped, either.
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Finding ways to move goods from one point to another at a reasonable cost and within an acceptable time frame is a growing challenge for global businesses today. The costs and risks associated with transportation are increasing with the advent of globalization and low-cost-country sourcing. Even for companies with local operations only, they have to supply their products to various parts of a country which increases the costs and risks. Since the cost of gasoline has been on an upward trend, high level of efficiency in transportation is required to lower the costs involved and the risks associated with the costs. Costs concepts in transportation include economic, social and accounting costs. The risks and costs involved increases if the various modes of transport are used. There has been concern over many businesses failure to strategically think when they employ multimodal transportation services. Many businesses prefer the least expensive multimodal model instead of choosing the most effective; this trade-off is very expensive with hidden costs and risks increasing significantly (Molenaar, Anderson, Schexnayder, National Research Council (U.S.)., National Cooperative Highway Research Program., American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials., & United States, 2010).
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We will be travelling from Fort Branch, Indiana to London, United Kingdom. Therefore, we will have to drive to a nearby airport and fly to London. We all decided to drive to Chicago, Illinois and fly out from there to London. Delta is the airline we chose to fly through, a round-trip flight from Chicago to London is going to cost about $2,700
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