Liner Shipping: Strategy, Strategy And Strategy

Container shipping account about 90% of exported goods total volumes. Airplanes can be used but they have lower capacity and higher costs

Today, container ships are used as major transport method between countries, and most of products, which are called dry cargo such as daily products, processed food, timbers and metals, are transported by container ship.

There were significant delays in cross loading cargo onto the ship, workers would have to stack like packages, construct shipping pallets, and block and brace items in the hulls of the ships as well as the decks. When a piece of cargo was too large or heavy it would require additional material handling equipment to move the freight to the next transportation mode being either rail or road. At the receiving port there was also a time delay due to the need to offload the cargo by individual piece and separate in on the dock. Road and rail transportation were very effective, but encountered similar delays and issues depending on the size and weight of the cargo. This resulted in a call for change in the way freight is transported among all modes of transport.

Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long term, which achieves advantage in a changing environment through its configuration of resources and competences with the aim of fulfilling stakeholder expectations (Johnson, et al., 2009).

A freight forwarder is a professional logistics provider. Freight forwarders are third parties and their objective is to dispatch shipments via asset based carriers such as ships, airplanes or trucks. The ability to arrange cargo movement from one destination to another within a short period of time makes a forwarder competent and however customer’s dependency remains constant on such forwarders. Freight forwarding companies have the expertise required to arrange all the activities related to the international shipping process. Shipping various products between countries and territories usually involves a multitude of carriers, requirements and legal documentation. The freight forwarding services is specialized in handling the

Transhipment is defined as transfer of a shipment from one port to other port. During the delivery, the cargos stop at the third countries to doing packaging, labelling, asembly and so on value added services activity. After finished value added services, the

The operation of liner ships is between 2 ports or between region. The liner ships will sail on schedule no matter the cargo is full or not. In addition, the punctuality depart and arrival date to the determined port is important because the image and prestige of company will be declined if they are not reach the destination port on time. The punctuality of liner ships is to improve the efficiency and overall transit time and confirm the cargo can be sent to the destination port on time. The liner ships also considered as the common carrier or public carrier because it required by law to accept without any discrimination. The liner ships require the minimum quantity of cargo must be presented by shippers to move to other places or

With growth of international shipping also increased domestic movements of freight. Companies has to find an optimal solution for moving their goods from factory to warehouse and from warehouse to distribution centers. Organizations has to look at many factors (objective and subjective) before they will make a rational decision and pick a suitable technique.

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Service freight serves to transport from one place to another a certain merchandise. This service is part of an entire logistics chain, which is responsible for placing one or more products at the time and place specified destination. The cargo is part of the distribution chain, because it meets the

Intermodal’s value proposition for shippers centers around the concept of using multiple, coordinated and highly-managed transportation and distribution services. These services consist of off-dock and terminal drayage, ocean container to domestic equipment transloading, rail linehaul and destination drayage to effect efficient, cost-effective and risk-managed supply chains. The development of

Strategy is a high level plan in which to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. It is very important because resources available to achieve these goals are usually limited. Strategy is often the difference between mediocrity and excellence.

containers, and Danaos Shipping owned and leased shipping vessels without operating them. Pureplay freight forwarders such as Expeditors or Schcnker fulfilled a sales and marketing function

Businesses instantly realized the benefits, ports and ships were quickly modified for intermodal container support. However, they were not immediately as standardized as was necessary

This report provided a research and analysis using the analytical tools to present the potential venture in the maritime tanker industry. Methods of analysis consist in this report is the PESTLE Analysis, which can be separated into Politic, Economic, Social, Technology, Legal and Environment. Besides, another analysis used is the Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threat (SWOT). The company that included in this analysis is DHT Holding Inc. All the source can be found in the references.