(PDF) Optimization of Web-based Bill of Lading Document

INDUSTRY RESEARCH PROJECT
OPTIMIZING THE BILL OF LADING PROCESS
TO PREVENT DELAY ON RELEASING CARGO AT
DESTINATION
A CASE STUDY OF CMA – CGM IN INDIA
May 12, 2018

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................ 3
Problem Statement............................................................................................. 3
An Ecological Productivity Message.................................................................4
Rationale for Selecting the Particular Research Method...........................5
Research Objectives......................................................................................... 5
Research Questions.......................................................................................... 6
LITERATURE REVIEW............................................................................................... 7
Theoretical Framework....................................................................................... 7
The Bill of Lading Procedure in CMA – CGM.....................................................7
Various Types of Liability................................................................................9
Optimization of Bill of Lading Process to Prevent Delay on Releasing
Cargo...................................................................................................................... 9
Gaps in Previous Research...............................................................................11
Comparison of Bill of Lading with Maersk.....................................................11
TYPE OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY..................................................................13
Discussion........................................................................................................... 13
Quotation (Work Estimate)...........................................................................14
Proposed Timeline.......................................................................................... 14
Recommendations............................................................................................. 14
Concluding Remarks.......................................................................................... 16
References............................................................................................................. 18

INDUSTRY RESEARCH PROJECT
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INTRODUCTION
The Guarantee of the fruitful monetary movement is the productive transportation, free
development of merchandise and the brisk traditions enrollment of the imported and
sent out cargo. Logistics is an intense instrument in service execution for lessening
expense and time, thus enhancing client service (especially time conveyance), cutting
discharges and saving the earth, relieving the effects of enactment, notwithstanding
beating absence of minimum amount while tending to new markets, geologies, and even
modular move.
Using the Suez channel brings numerous risks of losing cargo, and bosses now in the
association of enlarging robbery in the Indian Ocean area. It requires sizeable fund and
endeavors to set up free ships. Additionally, we can assume that organizations endure
broad harm because of demurrage. Grounded contentions and forecasts about points of
interest of the Northern ocean course to develop Arctic locales and cargo transportation
have been made by broad communications and driving research organizations
concerning navigation issues and difficulties (Ahmadi, Elsan & Noshadi, 2017).
As indicated by Svensson (2013) their distributions, ice shrinkage opens the Northern
ocean course to the year-round route. This can modify exchange courses by
fundamentally shortening shipping separations between Europe, North America, and
Asia, particularly Japan, China and expanding enormously turnover of fare and import
streams. For instance, the Northern ocean route can be used for export of metal and
compost from Russia and Europe, e.g. distribution of manure from Norway plants
Porsgrunn and Glomfjord to China; distribution (exports) of coal and wood from
Canada to the West shore of Europe (now they are sent out through Panama trench);
exports of grain from Portland and Seattle situated close to the West shoreline of the
USA to Europe and Russia; transportation of atomic fuel from England and France to
Japan (Bjørn, Haakon & Jan, 2012).

Problem Statement
Byung-In & Hokey (2017) argue that these days it isn't just the ownership of items that
are important, but instead the owner of items on time and in any event cost. The costs
that organizations look in ensuring that their merchandise is conveyed at the ideal time
and in the perfect place are developing: they result from framework clog, high fuel
costs, and tolls, also the expenses of natural contamination (especially CO2 outflows) to
society. Dealing with the time factor has basic effects on logistics expenses to the client.
Holding up times and defers put weight on plan unwavering quality. Lost minutes result
in lost dollars for shipping lines and their customers. Such a transport hall as goes in
extremely exceptional harsh and now and again hard to-foresee states of the sea. For
this situation, logistics includes time utility if the item is conveyed at the ideal time and
with low expenses. Time for this situation study suggests the travel time as the number
of cruising days on a port-to-port premise.
On the other hand, does this procedure prompt another potential for new logistics
arrangements or not? The development of activity and development of transportation
foundation affect environmental, social and financial areas intensely, but at the same
time are vital to the monetary prosperity of circumpolar people groups and districts. The
choices of logistics administrators can influence the accomplishment of ecological
methodologies at each phase of the store network. That is the reason logistics assumes
an unmistakable part of the execution of essentially any natural strategy (Charles,
Gerald & Daniel, 2011).
In the exploration, we concentrate basically on the maritime logistics. However, in the
meantime the study ought not to be discounted maritime transport despite that maritime
transport and logistics have customarily been seen as discrete sub-disciplines and have
been to a great extent treated in this regard by researchers. For our situation study, the
transportation hall as the such yet productive working of such a vehicle corridor relies
upon logistics. A transportation hallway delimits the services that drive logistics,
transportation, exchange and, consequently, their effects on the economy. That is the
reason in our study we join these the two originations and we are guided in this issue by
Samsul’s (2017) study though it is resolved that maritime logistics and transport have a
nearby union.