TOPIC: transportation and freight logistic
PROBLEM IN PORT SAVANNA
In 2015, port savannah had the ambition to deepen its harbor for it to contain the ever bigger “mega vessels,” that will help it transfer an escalating number of containers. Since the shipping of the container has increased, it has led to transparency reduction. With security for the TEUs at their point of start out of the hands of the collecting port. Nine out of 11 showed the terrorist potential of using planes as weapons, and ominously, there was an attempt of a hijack named Rizak Amid Farid, who tried to travel to Canada in a container with a bed. There was an attack in the Israel Port of Ashod by two Palestinian suicide bombers who slipped in by cloaking in a cargo container (Chatterjee, 2003), to solve this problem the containers used must be made in such a way that they are “smart” able that can detect the probability of destructive materials, real-time information relay on temperature and location, and also attempt to open it.
On top of that, those cargoes that are of high risk should be identified, tracked, and thoroughly screened before it reaches the shores of the USA. For that reason, the government of the USA and port shareholders to hugely give a hand of support to the foreign partners to help them strengthen their security, this will be a significant step in improving the global supply chain safety.
The port has a shortage of Truckers, Savana airport has no enough truckers that will help them handle the cargo, and this has contributed to the congestion of the airport. For this challenge to be solved, the government should come up with the regulation and policies that will help in the formation of more tracking devices; the government should also consider investment in roads, this will help solve the problem.
The other issue that Savana is facing is too much congestion, the question keeps increasing with the introduction of Mega-Ships, for the past ten years, the vessels have double in size, the funny thing is that the port has no plans to solve this, but I will prefer if they prefer Cargo redistribution to solve the problem, this will help them acquire a right supply balance by discussing with several carriers that have a good relationship with operators in the terminals in many ports. This will help for the viable options for your inbound and outbound supply chains, without importantly impacting your goals.
References
Chatterjee, A., 2003. An overview of security issues involving marine containers and ports. In proceedings of the 2003 Transportation Research Board annual meeting (CD-ROM).