Development prospects of technologies of grouped cargo containerization

Abstract

The article highlights the problems of cargo transportation, when, at the combined stage of development of transportation of consolidated consignments, the sender cannot count on the qualified servicing of container transportation. Today, the participation of the owner of a small consignment in the transport process comes to the goods delivery to the forwarder's site. Freight forwarding companies that have mastered the market of transport services in the relevant region are engaged in primary consolidation of goods of several senders in one container. As a result, the relations between the owner of the consignment and the carrier come into conflict with the proven practice of the effectiveness of the container as a reusable container delivering goods to the destination. A big obstacle to the development of container technologies in Russia is the mismatch of land transport infrastructure to the capacity of sea container terminals, which reduces the efficiency of the logistics process as a whole. The consignment transportation arrangement, zoning of consignment transportation using various means of upsizing have been illustrated. The technological schemes of containerization using sea transport, transportation of assorted cargoes are presented. All participants of the transport process are interested in improving the situation. In order to improve the economic efficiency of transportation and reduce the cargo liability of transport means, it is proposed to upsize the consignments combined by freight forwarders into consolidated container shipments. As a new cargo unit, an intra-container module is proposed, which has practically significant properties of the container. Introducing new tools of consolidation of LCL consignments is intended to broaden the potential use of container technology in a limited period of time (the so-called free days) for containers for sea transportation used on the land of cargo delivery to the recipient.