Breakbulk Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

International shipping of goods prior to containerization was known as __________. - Answer-Breakbulk Break-bulk method of transport - Answer-Increased handling of goods in port Containerization method of transportation - Answer-Increased shipping speed, reduced shipping costs, and reduced port congestion CSC - Answer-Convention for Safe Containers (1972), an international agreement maintaining global container handling and transportation standards. It requires structural safety approval of...

Just like in the movies, warehouses tend to be dark, dingy, and cavernous places to work False Warehouses tend to look the same and function the same despite the different products and commodities they may store False Brainpower Read More What kind of warehouse facility performs very differently from a conventional warehouse by receiving inventory and shipping it out in the same day? Cross-Dock Warehouses let you separate production from consumption, enabling you to take ad...

Ports are one of the most vital aspects of a national transport infrastructure. For most most trading nations they are: - the main transport link with a nation's trading partners and thus a focal point for highway and rail systems - a major economic multiplier for the nation's prosperity. Not only is a port a gateway for trade, but ports attract commercial infrastructure in the form of banks, agencies, etc., as well as industrial activity Port of Houston - 1st ranked US in foreign ...

ASU SCM 300 FINAL EXAM Elaborated 3 Major Cargo Classifications (M4) - 1. Bulk Cargo: free flowing, stored loose, loaded by shovel, pump school (ex: coal, rice, grain) 2. Breakbulk: general or package cargo, often containerized and measured in TEU's (ex: box, bottles, cans) 3. Neo-bulk: characteristics of both bulk and break bulk (ex: automobiles, logs, steel, cattle) 3 Parts of Social Responsibility (M8) - 1. legal and ethical behavior, acting within the law in all th...

warehousing that part of a firm's logistics system that stores products (raw materials, parts, goods-in-process, finished goods) at and between points of origin and point of consumption what function does the warehousing facilitate? the regrouping function - involves rearranging the quanities and the assortment of products as they move through the supply chain and can take form of accumulating, allocating, assorting, and sorting out accumulating bringing together similar stocks from differ...

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