Exam 1 Flashcards
(46 cards)
OTR
“over the road” movement of goods using trucks or tractor trailer rigs.
inland point intermodal (IPI)
inbound freight moves from a port to a shipper’s door within the interior of the country via a domestic or international intermodal container.
Gate Cut Time
if you want your container to be on the outbound train, the driver needs to check-in at the intermodal facility’s gate before the cut off time
Beneficial Cargo Owner (BCO)
the party that ultimately owns the product being shipped.
Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEU)
a standard intermodal freight container for transporting goods and materials by sea, land and air
easily fits onto vessels, trucks, and carriers
Steamship Line
a line responsible for the operation of a fleet of steamships.
Stevedore
the act of loading or offloading cargo to and/or from a ship.
Chassis
a special trailer or undercarriage used to transport ocean containers over the road
wharfage
the fee charged by ocean carriers to cover the port authority’s cost of using a wharf to unload cargo from a vessel.
Intermodal
involving two or more different modes of transportation in conveying goods.
Demand factors of the 2021 supply chain crisis
Goods vs services, stimulus inflation, forward buying
Supply factors of the 2021 supply chain crises
shortages of:
1. components
2. manufacturing labor
3. Equipment
4. truck drivers
5. rail capacity
6. Warehouses
Both factors of the SC crises lead to
less responsive ad inefficient supply chains
Types of Cargo/ships
Roro
GA Ports
Golden Ray
Bulk
Breakbulk
Gearless/ Geared
Containers
Container Vessel (Boxship)
Roro (roll on, roll off)
Vessels that are used to carry wheeled cargo
Vehicles are loaded and unloaded by means of built in ramps
Ocean transport vessels are Pure car carriers (PCC) and Pure Truck & Car characters (PCTC)
GA Ports
Colonel Island Terminal in Brunswick
Dedicated Ro/Ro facility
3 berths- key distribution point for Kia and Hyundai
Golden Ray
Sept 8, 2019 capsized in St. Simons Sound
Last giant piece of wreck removed Oct 2021.
Bulk
dry cargoes such as Iron Ore, Grain, Coal, Alumina and Phosphate are carried in loose form; loads directly into ship holds
ship types: bulk carriers, ore carriers(Bulkers)
Breakbulk
cargoes are carried in utilized form such as palletized, bagged, etc
ship types: Breakbulk, multipurpose, or general cargo vessels.
_______ does not have own loading equipment while ____ does has its own
gearless, geared
Containers
Process of sending cargo in special containers (containerization)
Iso international sizes- 20’,40’ and 45’
Container Vessel (Boxship)
structured specifically to hold huge quantities of cargo compacted in different types of containers
feedership
size of approx. 1500 TEU
short routes among coasts
Mothership
sizes of 4000-20,000+ TEU
On international trade routes.
