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.

CHARACTERISTICS OF AIR FREIGHT FOWARDER

There are many characteristics that have in air freight forwarder. As we know, the air freight forwarder is one of the types for special carrier. They operate much in the same way as surface area. Usually the air freight forwarder use for services of major passenger and freight airlines for long-haul services and used by shippers with high-product-dollar value, high time-sensitivity value or both. They allow airlines to focus on terminal-to-terminal services and provide speed of services.

THE URBAN TRANSIT CHALLENGES

       This week we have been task from lecturer to make a research what are the challenges faced by urban transit. First of all, we will explain what is urban transit. Urban transit involve changing modes of transportation it also can be be defined as new intermodal system for example from road modes transfer to water or rail to sends the freight to the destination. Urbanization has been one of the dominant contemporary processes as a growing share of the global population lives in cities. Considering this trend, urban transportation issues are of foremost importance to support the passengers and freight mobility requirements of large urban focus. Transportation in urban areas is highly complex because of the modes involved, the multitude of origins and destinations, and the amount and variety of traffic. Traditionally, the focus of urban transportation has been on passengers as cities were viewed as locations of utmost human interactions with busy traffic patterns linked to commuting, commercial transactions and leisure/cultural activities. Urban transit is an important dimension of mobility, notably in high density. so here we will list a few that Urban transit challenges:

WATER WAYS

In Logistic terms water carrier can be defined as a party who used water way to delivered the shipment by using shipping company. Using this mode of transportation give many benefit towards firm which trusted will give profitable to that firm.  so we will list down the benefits from using this modes.

FACTORS INFLUENCES GROWTH IN AIR TRANSPORTATION

Each of country has their own air transportation to move the goods and people in their country. Airline travel is a common form of transportation for long distance to passenger and freight travel. That is reasonable alternatives when time of the essence. The services that provide of each air transportation are more better compare with another mode of transportation because they give comfortable sit during flight. However, the services that they provide give a big impact to their price because the price is also higher. Many of reasons that cause the growth in air cargo.