PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN MALAYSIA

As what we know Malaysia have many type of transportation such as air, road, rail, water and also pipelines. Malaysia is served by an excellent public transportation Malaysia. Once in the country you would always find transportation available to you even remote areas. Travelling by roads in peninsular Malaysia is popular as it has well-develop network of roads. After Malaysia’s modernization has made travel here whether it’s by plane, train, bus, taxi or self-driven car easier and convenient than ever. Malaysia airlines have service to every major destination within the peninsular and East Malaysia and now budget carrier, Air Asia connect all major towns for a cheap. Public transportation in Malaysia has buses with massive web of routes between every city and town. Train service up the western coast and out to the East provides even more options that they can choose. In addition, Public transportation has made it convenient enough for tourists to plan to hop from city to city and not waste too much precious vacation time.

TYPE OF CONTAINERS

The exterior dimensions of all containers conforming to ISO standards are 20 feet long x 8 feet wide x 8 feet 6 inches high or 9 feet 6 inches high for high cube containers.

	VENTILATED CONTAINER 20'	Ideal for cargo requiring ventilation
	BULK CONTAINER 20'	For bulk cargoes
	TANK CONTAINER 20'	For transportation of liquid chemicals and food stuffs
	DRY FREIGHT CONTAINER 20' and 40'	General purpose container
	HIGH CUBE CONTAINER 40' and 45'	9'6" High - For over height and voluminous cargo
	OPEN TOP CONTAINER 20' and 40'	Removable tarpaulin for top loading of over height cargo
	FLAT RACK 20' and 40'	For over width and heavy cargo
	PLATFORM 20' and 40'	For extra length and heavy cargo
	INSULATED CONTAINER 20' and 40'	For additional insulation of sensitive cargo
	REEFER CONTAINER 20' and 40'	For cooling, freezing or heating of foods or chemicals
	HIGH CUBE REEFER CONTAINER 40' and 45'	9'6" High - For over height and voluminous cargo requiring cooling or freezing

CHALLENGE IN CARRIER STRATEGIES

As what we know, in transportation medium there is a lot of challenge that the carrier and shipper need to face. Here we will discuss about the challenge in carrier strategies. The first one is operating network. In operating network there have five points.

     (i) Assets and equipment must be deployed to the shippers location. which requires continuous monitoring of equipment location and customer demand. That's mean, the assets and equipment must be move to shipper location. If the operation is higher, the challenge that the shippers and the carrier have to face also higher. For example Maersk, their asset moving for worldwide. So, they can expand their operation network.

HISTORY OF AIR TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

The earliest projectiles in the history of mankind that travel through the air have been known to be stones and spears. These made way for the boomerang in Australia,the hot air lantern, and kites. If we look into the history of air transport, we will come across early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, Jamshid in Persian myth, and may more. The flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum later, the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenco de Gusmao in the air transport history is to some extent more credible claims of short-distance human flights. The main purpose of this article is to trace the origin of air transport.

SPECIAL RATES

In logistics many term of rate that certain company must know because each rate has different functionality. In term of area, location or route rates have a many special rates that we must know. The special rate is local rates, joint rates, proportional rates, different rates, per-mile rates, terminal-to-terminal rates and blanket or group rates.

The special rate is the most important part for logistics because any transaction or thing to be dealt with must be having the rates. The meaning of local rates is applied to any rate between two points serve by the same carrier. Local rates are involved fully-cost of factory. The cost will be part of local rates is must be including cost for pick up, documentation, rating, billing and delivery. The important part of local rates is must be documentation for anything to be dealt with.

GLOBAL AIR REGULATION

Many of countries have to ensure their air transportation be familiar in global world. Same like Malaysia, we also want our air transportation expand and become familiar with other countries. So when our air transportation will be familiar at the same time we also had many competitors and get many customers to try using for our air transportation services. Matters that concerns in global air carriage relate to air safety and economics regulation. So, in this subtopic we will discuss about the safety that we have to concerns in our global air regulation and also the right of air carrier to provide certain types of services.

WHAT IS INTERMODALISM AND THE BENEFIT?

INTERMODALISM

• The system of coordinating different modes of transportation
• other simple meaning is, the system of changes mode of transportation. normally, involve two or more mode of transportation.