International Transport Route Planning: Case KBWright Trading Ltd (U.K.)
Olayinka, Dele (2019)
Olayinka, Dele
2019
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The commissioning company of this thesis, KBWright Trading Ltd., is domiciled in the United Kingdom. It is an open secret that the UK is having a turbulent time as they are trying to separate from the European Union. This has created some uncertainties around the usual business clime of the country. It is against this backdrop that this project was commissioned to plan the transportation of cashew beans from Nigeria to the UK. Hence, this thesis aims to furnish KBWright Trading Ltd. with relevant statistics that will help in creating a working transport route design.
The study helps to understand importation process into the UK in brief and also discusses relevant incoterms and the need for transferring high-risk part of the inbound transportation and importation process. The theory also delve into transport modes and their characteristics.
Calls were made and also emails to freight forwarders and logistics companies to gather data about freight prices for different transport modes. This will help the owner of KBWright Trading Ltd. benchmark freight prices. The freight prices and data about the available transport modes for international cargo from Nigeria to the UK served as the primary data. Other transport statistics were collected from relevant websites as secondary data. The theory was combined with data collected and analysed.
The outcome was that sea transportation was the most viable transportation for the main carriage while air transportation is on the stand-by if expediting of delivery is required for the cashew beans. Delivery terms that are advisable were at least those that commit the seller up until loading point for the main carriage. Alternatively, all or the transportation process in Nigeria is to be outsourced because of uncertainties.
The study helps to understand importation process into the UK in brief and also discusses relevant incoterms and the need for transferring high-risk part of the inbound transportation and importation process. The theory also delve into transport modes and their characteristics.
Calls were made and also emails to freight forwarders and logistics companies to gather data about freight prices for different transport modes. This will help the owner of KBWright Trading Ltd. benchmark freight prices. The freight prices and data about the available transport modes for international cargo from Nigeria to the UK served as the primary data. Other transport statistics were collected from relevant websites as secondary data. The theory was combined with data collected and analysed.
The outcome was that sea transportation was the most viable transportation for the main carriage while air transportation is on the stand-by if expediting of delivery is required for the cashew beans. Delivery terms that are advisable were at least those that commit the seller up until loading point for the main carriage. Alternatively, all or the transportation process in Nigeria is to be outsourced because of uncertainties.