Container ship

characteristics of container gears and the speed that a container can develop. Also the major companies that own containerships and their structure will be described. Containerships are large commercial ships that are mostly traveling to oceans and their main purpose is to handle containers ,which are very big iron boxes with length around 12 meters. Each containership depends on the lifting gear of the port that makes easier the loading process and also save time for the ship to prepare for a voyage

The Intermodal Shipping Container is a large steel box that was created to transport goods by train, truck, or ship for around the last 50 years. The pioneer of this revolutionizing box goes is a man by the name of Malcom McLean who began his transportation interest with his trucking company (McLean Trucking) that he built into one of the nation’s largest. From there, he developed the steel container in 1956, which replaced the previous loading and unloading method known as the “Break Bulk Method

Introduction: For our current context, we are dealing logistics as limited to the warehousing, transport and integral management part of the whole supply chain of an organization. In any small to big business, logistics holds a crucial importance of cutting costs and avoiding waste of materials and the golden time resource (Anon., 2012). In our earlier assignment, we mentioned five critical global changes which are bring vital transform in the logistics functionalities of the enterprises. These changes

History of Intermodal Containers For a very long time people have been trading goods with each other within their city, out of their city, and even across borders and oceans. As technology has advanced, so has different modes of transportation to make it easier for people to get their products that they need while shipping out products to other people. The world that we live in is a great big place and in order for us humans to survive and grow we need ways to reach out to other people and communicate

: APPLICATION OF THE CONCEPTS/THEORIES IN MY CURRENT JOB In my job as 3PL (Third party logistics service provider) shipping (transportation across boarders) is one of the integrated services that we offer to our clients. To carry out this activity, we are constantly faced with the dilema of choosing the transportation mode that will reconcile effectiveness and efficiency. While keeping in mind the expectations of our clients, we must not forget our profit margins – which are the bases of our business

9th of September, 2015 BA215 - Transportation Principles Dr. Professor Rhoades Assignment by Kevin Besemer Intermodal Project Part 1 CMA CGM CMA CGM Group is an internationally operating shipping company and plays a vital role in the transportation business industry. Originally founded by Jacques Saadé in 1978, the company is headquartered in Marseille, France. CMA CGM, which occupies more than 20,000 employees worldwide, operates globally in more than 160 countries with a vast network of over

port terminal operator that expanded into new markets to replicate their expertise in terminal operations and to diversify their revenue geographically (Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2010). The Hong Kong based Hutchison Port Holdings is the worlds largest container operator, handling in 2014 more than 82 million TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Units), a 6% growth rate in volume in comparison with 2013 (Linton Nightingale, 2015). HPH has one of the most technology-intensive commercial operations in the transport

1. Introduction Pacific International Lines or PIL as it is commonly known in the market is a container shipping company started by Mr.Y C Chang in 1967. What he started as a 1 ship company is today the 19th biggest container shipping company in terms of TEU capacity & the 8th largest container ship owner. Ambition: Integrated shipping group with a meaningful market share by setting own pace of growth based on the group’s financial strength and human resource capabilities. 2. External Analysis:

Term Project Throughput Capacity Report of Indented Berth Design at Guangzhou Container Terminal No.1 Objective: In this term project, a seaport terminal is selected to calculate the current throughput capacity based on the data measured in google earth and found on the official website. Then we should propose a modified berth layout by changing the existing berth to include an indented berth, and estimate the increasing rate of the annual throughput capacity. I selected Guangzhou Terminal

There are a lot of ports in India however Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) occupies a prominence place. This port is the largest container port and also one of the modern major ports in India. It was developed and able to handle around 60% of India’s container cargo. Nowadays, the shipping industry has grew rapidly due to the globalization, booming international trade and foreign investments. Maritime transportation and global seaborne trade play an important role and represent more than 90% of the international