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Order Release and Control
Published in Paul Schönsleben, Integral Logistics Management, 2018
When changing the means of transportation, there is the problem of getting the goods from one modality to another. While the transfer of the goods can be simplified through the use of standardized loading aids like containers or pallets, transferring goods entails special handling equipment (gantry crane, winch, lifting platform, chute, and so on), time and personnel, and associated costs. The following concepts are gaining in importance: Cross-docking, or direct loading, is the concept of load building on the incoming vehicle so that the packaged goods can be easily carried at the transshipment point to the outgoing vehicle, without being stored in intermediate inventory ([APIC13]).The objective of combined transport is to transport goods using two modes of transport in combination, such as rail/road, in the best way possible so as to utilize the advantages of each. This is achieved through the use of intermodal transport units (container, swap body, or semi-trailer/goods road motor vehicle).Trailer on flat car [TOFCJ transport is a synonym for road transport that is in part moved by rail. Semitrailers or entire road trains (drawbar-trailer combinations) are loaded onto trains. The major part of the journey is by rail; the final leg for delivery to the customer is carried out by road.
What Is Intermodal Freight Transport?
Published in Lowe FCILT David, Intermodal Freight Transport, 2006
The term combined transport, as with bimodal transport described above, invariably means the use of just two transport modes in combination, such as road and rail or road and inland waterway. Referring to intermodal transport generally as combined transport is not incorrect, although obviously not so precise in circumstances where more than two modes are involved in a multimodal operation and tradition that the term ‘combined’ transport means just road–rail transport rather than any two other modes in combination.
Improving competitiveness level of Turkish intermodal ports in the Frame of Green Port Concept: a case study
Published in Maritime Policy & Management, 2020
Selim Aksoy, Yalcin Durmusoglu
Developments in container transportation after invention of the ‘container’ caused major changes in the entire transport system. Container transportation has taken its place in the total transportation network firmly in a revolutionary quality, with its integration to supply chain management practices reaching from the producer to the consumer. Container transportation, a milestone in this sense, has accelerated the development of transportation and information technologies. As a result of these developments, intermodal, multimodal and combined transport systems, in which land, air, railway and sea transport can be considered together, have come to the fore. This rapid change and growth in the transportation sector has created different research and application areas. Supply chain and logistics infrastructure and management, warehousing services and management, order preparation functions have been planned and carried out together (TUSIAD 2007). Container transportation, which has been in a steady increase since the 90s, experienced the biggest dramatic drop in 2009. Firstly, the global crisis in financial markets was reflected in the real sector. Then, the crisis reflected in the commercial trade was also felt in the maritime sector. Freight prices and gains, which fell sharply following the crisis, declined due to the increasing world naval trade fleet (UNCTAD 2018).