物流专业英语 教学课件 作者 王风丽 7 Chapter Seven.pptVIP

Logistics English 物流专业英语 主 编 王风丽 副主编 唐曌曦 王晓阔 Module Two  Professional English of Logistics Chapter Seven Transportation Chapter Seven Transportation Objectives Transportation is one of the most significant areas of logistics management because of its impact on customer service levels and the firm’s cost structure. Transportation refers to the physical movement of goods from a point of origin to point of consumption and can involve raw materials being brought into production process / or finished goods being shipped out to the customer. Transportation is a very visible element of logistics. 7.1Definition of transportation Transportation is the executive agency that actually carries out the physical movement. The term movements refers to the planning, monitoring and controlling of the movement of goods and people through all the stages of the journey between origin and ultimate destination, including any interchange, documentation processing, temporary accommodation and the procurement of the means of transportation. 7.2 The purpose of transportation The ideal transport mode would be instantaneous, free, have an unlimited capacity and always be available. It would render space obsolete. This is obviously not the case. Space is a constraint for the construction of transport networks. Transportation appears to be an economic activity different from the others. It trades space with time and thus money (translated from Merlin, 1992). As the above quotation underlines, the unique purpose of transportation is to overcome space, which is shaped by a variety of human and physical constraints such as distance, time, administrative divisions and topography. Jointly, they confer a friction to any movement, commonly known as the friction of space. However, these constraints and the friction they create can only be partially circumscribed. The extent to which t