The Parcel Locker As The Last Mile Delivery Solution At Melbourne

E-commerce is short for electronic commerce and refers to purchasing and selling items and services on the Internet via a website. Otherwise called an online store, an E-Commerce website has features that make it easy for customers to browse for items to purchase.

Electronic Commerce in short known as E-commerce. E-commerce is the business or commercial transaction which transforms information in internet. E-commerce which is buying or selling any products or services in Online using internet. It is Electronic mediator between the customer and the organization. The main aim of E-commerce is to provide secure transactions for the customer

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.

Almost all the freight transport involves truck participation because it provides last mile delivery to the destinations from the railheads. Trucks allows delivery to the distribution centers from the intermodal facilities.

E-commerce (electronic commerce or EC) is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data, over an electronic network, primarily the Internet. These business transactions occur either business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer or consumer-to-business. The terms e-commerceand e-business are often used interchangeably. The term e-tail is also sometimes used in reference to transactional processes around online retail, (SearchCIO, 2015). In other words e-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services online.

E-commerce is a product that has been available since the early 90’s. It is something that people are familiar with. A product that is now part and parcel of people’s lives.

This report provides modern infrastructure of logistic via Qube case, analysis of current problems of logistic in NSW and in the world and resolutions about related problems in NSW and in the world. Also, Australia government’s activities and resolutions to help to develop logistics network. Result of the analysis shows that current

Environmental issues gaining importance – need to improve energy consumption, reduce freight carbon emission levels and increase the use of sustainable modes of transport (p. 11)

E-Commerce describes any business to consumer transactions that take place partly or solely online and is not limited to the purchase of physical products from a website – although that does make up a key component of most e-commerce businesses. Some services or products are sold purely online while other companies may have physical stores or headquarters in addition to their online presence.

Transportation plays a vital role in the economy, carrying goods to consumers, and moving people, across the country and the world. Every day is a new challenge for transportation organisations as they work hard to run their services safely and on time.

Introduction Patrick is Australia’s largest and most advanced container terminal operator. The Patrick Ports portfolio comprises containers terminals, port logistics services for landside management of import/export containers, an end-to-end supply chain offerings for automotive manufacturers, bulk port management and stevedoring for general cargo (Asciano Group, 2015). Patrick operates 4 Terminals, Port Botany, Port of Melbourne, Fisherman Island, and Freemantle. Collectively the terminals handle over 3 million twenty-foot equivalents (TEU) containers per annum (Asciano Group, 2015). At present, the Fisherman Island (Brisbane) and Port Botany (Sydney) terminal of have now been successfully automated. This report will examine the opportunity to automate the company’s Melbourne terminal operation as a solution to drive world-class operating efficiency. Overview of Port Operations Patrick’s core service offering is establishing the connection between the shipping lines, freight forwarders and the beneficial freight owner. Like all ports, this service involves providing the gateway, where goods are moved between the shipping line and the terminal (Goss, 1990). Although simple in concept, this process can be considered one of the most complex tasks in the logistics industry (Wang, Cullinane, & Song, 2005). This is a result of the interactions (physical and information) between the actors involved in importing and exporting containers and operational interactions that occur in

E-commerce is platform of communication through internet that takes place between companies and their customers (Whiteley, 2000). The e-commerce provides various services such online shopping, online bank and E-enterprise which are also emerging trends on their own. Online shopping is one biggest service of e-commerce which allows consumers to buy, order and view goods and service on online through their gadget, anywhere they are (Dennis et al. 2004; McCormick, 2009). Based on fact that world is connected through internet and the new generation prefer to utilise technology than do things in manual process (going physical retail). .

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is often thought simply to refer to buying and selling using the Internet; people immediately think of consumer retail purchases from companies such as Amazon. But e-commerce involves much more than electronically mediated financial transactions between organizations and customers. E-commerce should be considered as all electronically mediated transactions between an organization and any third-party it deals with.

The article is very thorough in its descriptions and definitions of the web, the internet and e-commerce.I fully support the stance the author takes on thesedefinitions and capabilities of the internet and e-commerce. As noted in the paper,In order to understand the concept of e-commerce, it is important to have a true understanding of the concept of internet. Internet is defined by Rayport and Jaworski (2002,p.40) as "a collection of wires, protocols, and hardware that allows the electronic transmission of data over TCP/IP". This definition could be sufficient for the electronic part. Then the commerce parst just concerns the exchange of goods and services for money over the internet.E-commerce can therefore be defined as the art and science of exchanging goods and services over the internet backbone (Laudon & Traver, 2012,p.54).Issues of online security and privacy however must be taken care of as suggested in the final part of this paper. I find this paper very compelling and accurate in its definition of the internet, web and e-commerce as well as the issues and risks surrounding the use of e-commerce technology.

Container liner shipping has become one of the most important transportation modes in international trade. It is growingly penetrated into the share of many conventional shipping modes. Containerized cargo has been the most dynamic cargo group. “About 60% of the value of goods transported by sea is containerized cargo (Stopford 2009). In 2011, container shipping carried some 1.477 million tons of 8,879 million tons of seaborne trade (Unctad 2011). In terms of TEU, world container traffic grew from 13.5 m TEUs in 1980 to 152.1 m TEUs in 2011, on average 8.29 % per year (ISL 2011).”