FACTORS IN LOCATING TERMINAL

 As what we know terminal is the common things in logistics field. Terminal is third party of transportation mode. A depot and distribution center placed in a planned area of a major city. Terminal may offer the short term storage to incoming or outgoing freight. Here, we will give some information about the factor that we need to concern in choosing the location of the terminals. The factors in choosing the right place for the terminal are as the following:

i) Accessibility

-   Accessibility means the terminal must have an ability of the transformation provider to move the freight between a specific origin and destination.

ii)Near to customer and near to market place

-   The terminal must near to the customer. So that, the process of distributes the goods become more easy. It also can make the customer easier to find or get our products.

iii) Safety requirement

-   The location must have safety requirement in order to make sure the goods are in the good conditions. For example, if there is the hazardous product we need to store them away from the high density population.

iv) Infrastructure

-  Terminal must near to infrastructure that can make the process to storage the goods easier.