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College of International Transport & Logistics ELEO214 & EL224 Transport Economics Dr. Yasmine Rashed Academic Year: 2nd 2021/2022 ASSIGNMENT [10 MARKS] The purpose of the project is to expose you to the importance of the transport cost and the choice of the suitable mean of transport. Guidelines for team formation: Groups of min. 3 & max 4 members in each group. - A presentation of 10-12 mins; each student will present his/her contribution separately. A report 4 pages is to be submitted with the presentation. • Submission of report & presentation on Thursday 26th of May. You are asked as a transport company to ship 2 TEUs containers (door-to-door service); one of them is normal container and the other is a refrigerator container. Provide the following details: 1. Identify your 2 products. 2. Identify the origin and destination (from farm/factory/warehouse) 3. The shipment is across continents from Egypt to Europe. 4. An airport or seaport must be included in the route. This is just an example, you may use another products & route a. A container from oriental wavers factory in the 10th of Ramadan city Industrial zone to Hamburg port. b. Exporting grapes from a farm in Behira governator to Marks & Spencer in London. Required . Calculate the total logistics Costs & Average Transit Time. Include all the logistics costs (transport, handling, packaging.....) • Make a detailed list of the cost items and the share of each one (use a pie chart as below). Show using a map your route • Make a chart as figure 1, showing the relationship between total time and distance. Provide 2 alternative routes and justify of the selected route. Consider the use of using multimodal transport (the use of more than one mode of transport). For port selection & freight • https://www.searates.com/maritime/ https://www.freightos.com/freight-resou ... free-tool/
. https://worldfreightrates.com/freight Average Transit Time (29.8 hours for 430 km) 18 Nairobi 16 Unloading (-2 hours) 14 12 Weight station (+3 hours) Police checks (+2 hours) Other driver delays (+11 hours) Weight station (-3 hours) Mombasa 0 100 400 500 200 300 Distance (km) Figure 1: The average transit time Total Logistics Costs (9,844 USD) 1796 3% 41% 10 8 B 4 2 0 15% 1396 4% 4% 3% Sea Freight Shipping Port Handling - Shipping Lines Charges - Container Freight Station Charges Inland Routing Costs Clearing Agent Fees + VAT Direct Costs of Delays Indirect Costs of Delays