Dangerous goods compatibility
(1) Can you transport a Class 4.2 spontaneously combustible good with a Class 5.1 oxidizing agent in a road vehicle or freight container?
(2) Can you mix a Class 9 miscellaneous dangerous good with a class 5.2 organic peroxide shipment?
(3) What is a Dangerous Goods Class 6.2 known as?
Selecting the transport type
MRBGS Logistics have received the following orders for consignments that you have been
allocated responsibility for managing:
• A 3–tonne consignment of ball bearings from a factory in Moorebank, NSW, to a manufacturing facility in Pusan, South Korea
• A 10-tonne consignment of beef from Lismore, NSW, to a meat wholesaler in Lyon, France
• A consignment of 20 tractors from a Sydney agricultural products manufacturing to a farming company in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
You have been asked by each customer for advice on what type of transport they should use?
(1) Consider all factors as described in previous pages of this Learner Guide and decide which mode of transport you would recommend using at this stage and write a rationale for your decision in the space required in the chart below.
Consignment
Recommended Transport Type Rationale for selection
(2) Give some examples of circumstances which would influence you to send the consignment using another type of transport?
Capacity and Capability
1. For the consignments in Activity 1, what types of criteria would you consider to make a judgement on the capability and capacity of different carriers you are dealing with (Rail, Road, Air and Sea)?
2. What type of load (FCL or LCL,) would you use and why?
Consolidating Loads
Answer the following questions about consolidating the consignments you assessed the capability and capacity for in Activity
1. If all of the goods were going to the same destination, would you consider consolidating the three loads into the same container?
2. Please explain the rationale behind your response?
Getting it from A to B via C and D
1. Assuming that the delivery dates for the consignments in Activity 1 are in 60 days, 30 days and 90 days respectively for the ball bearings, beef and tractor consignments, select what you think is the most appropriate route to get the goods from their pick up point to their destination?
Note:
Remember to investigate alternative routes which may involve transhipments and that the most direct route may not necessarily be the best route?
Consignment Pick up Point Destination Route Selected
Ball bearings
Beef
Tractors
Alternate Routes
Consignment
Alternative Route
Circumstances when it would be used
Ball bearings
Beef
Tractors
Equipment and Storage
1. List examples of the types of equipment you may require to organise to organise the consignments of ball bearings, beef and tractors from Activity 1.
Consignment Required equipment
Ball bearings
Beef
ractors
2. Give some examples of the locations and warehousing and storage facilities that may be required and explain why they are required at those locations?
Consignment Required Warehouse/ Storage requirements Reasons for Warehouse/ Storage requirements
Ball bearings
Beef
Tractors
Choose one of the consignments from activity three. Give examples of the tasks that may need to be performed during the export or international freight transfer process for that consignment.
1. After doing that give an estimate of how many people may be required to complete those tasks?
2. Document this information in the table below.
Consignment Required tasks
No. of people required
3. Allocate responsibility for completing these tasks to members of your team.
Required tasks
Person(s) responsible
4. Show some examples of the type of training your staff may require in the chart below?
Documents, routes and regulations, insurance and security
1. Give examples of the types of rules, regulations and codes of practise that you may need to comply with and give examples of the types of documents you would need to obtain if exporting or locally transferring the consignments from Activity 1.
Document
Description
2. Give examples of the type(s) of insurance you may need to organise?
Insurance
Description
3. Give examples of the types of security arrangements you may need to organise?
Security
1. Give examples and describe the packaging, labelling and marking you may use and apply to the consignments from activity 1.
Type
As the manager of Export Logistics and International freight transfer for MRBGS Logistics, you have noticed that you always seem to have delays in your operations caused by:
• Slow export documentation clearance
• Rejection of dangerous goods by customs when gaining export clearance documents.
• Inefficiency of mechanised loading equipment which frequently breaks down.
1. Give examples of the potential causes of these operational difficulties?
2. Give examples of what actions you could take to ensure these operational difficulties were overcome in your organisation and list them and the proposed actions in the chart below?
Description of operational difficulty Proposed response
1. Give your thoughts on why an operational plan is necessary when dealing with the importation or export of products, and in particular why it is important when doing so for the first time?
Monitoring and Complying
1. What systems, policies and procedures might you have in place so that your organisation can monitor your performance and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and quality standards?
2. Who in your organisation might have the responsibility for conducting monitoring activities and compliance?
3. Give examples of their job title and what specific tasks they perform to achieve compliance?
4. How might your organisation ensure that it is kept up-to-date with new legislation, regulations and codes of practice?
Assesment Document
complete the missing word, phrases definitions and examples of the following questions:
1. international trade is……
2. international trade is also refered to as……………….. Trade or …………………………..
3. Domestic trade takes place entirely within a ……………………….. Country.
4. World trade is governed by the rules of trade between nations that are set by the world ……………….. organisation.
5. The most relevent regulations established by WTO are:
a) GATT (which stands for
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