Port logistics City Assignment 2022

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 3
Characteristics of Melbourne City...............................................................................3
Three key challenges of Melbourne Logistics Port city...............................................4
Implementing logistics strategy................................................................................. 5
Trans loading strategy............................................................................................ 5
Cross-docking strategy............................................................................................ 7
Cargo Rotation technique........................................................................................ 8
Will a Trans loading be successfully implemented on other cities?..........................10
Conclusions and Recommendations.........................................................................11

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Introduction
The logistic is made up of various activities such as value adding tasks, logistics-drive, and
consolidation of freights and pre-processing. A logistics city port help connects different
multimodal networks like rails and roads of a city to the global markets. A port logistics city is
made up of different distribution areas where some value adding activities are preformed like
breaking bulk and sortation (Geroliminis, and Daganzo, 2015). A port logistics city is the current
trend in the logistics system. Different adopted global logistics hubs like Rotterdam, Dubai,
Singapore cities and Melbourne city which has the largest and second busiest port in Australia.
This paper covers key challenges of Melbourne’s port logistics city, strategies to enhance
Melbourne’s freight networks such as Trans loading, cross-docking and cargo rotation technique.
Characteristics of Melbourne City
Melbourne city is used as the case study for this paper because it one of the most populated city
in Australia. Melbourne city port is the most containerized port in Australia located Port Philip
Bay. The Melbourne port enabled large ships to navigate Yarra River into the ports thus there is
no need for roads or rail transport. The port connects and provides supplies to other cities. To be
able to perform these function two changes were implemented. These changes have enable the
city port operations run smoothly. Consolidation promotes agglomeration while suburbanization
cause de-agglomeration (Mangan, and Lalwani, 2016). Consolidation of land have maximized
use of underutilized resources, expanded markets through effective competition, increased
productivity, and cost reduction. The inland freight shipments are affected by technological
sharing, traffic congestion and rent escalations. These aspects have resulted into increased
containerization, increased throughput and cheap industrial land. All these characteristics have

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made Melbourne to be the largest and busiest port in Australia. Melbourne has many successful
characteristics but there are also some key challenges affecting the port logistics city (Chhetri, et.
al 2018).
Three key challenges of Melbourne Logistics Port city
Melbourne logistics port city has faced some challenges which have to resolve for it to succeed.
The three major challenges which require solving are reconfiguration of shipments, too much
reliance on trucks, and much congestion on Melbourne infrastructure (Gusah, et al, 2019). The
city challenges are discussed below;
Reconfiguration of shipments
Reconfiguration of shipment system is a key challenge facing Melbourne’s logistics city.
Reconfiguration has led into ineffective and inefficient movement of freights to the Melbourne
port city. The city has some areas which are more populated than others for example east and
south east regions are more populated compared to west regions. The port logistic clusters are
located in the west region meaning that long distance exist between the port and final
destinations. The reconfiguration therefore increase distribution distance and also increase
transportation costs because of the increased demand of empty containers.
Too much dependence on trucks
Heavy reliance on fixed scheduled transport mode is the second challenge because it increases
the delivery time, lower utilization of vehicles and cause transportation bottlenecks. The heavy
reliance has also increased hot spots congestion in Melbourne which has made transportation