TYPE OF INFORMATION SYSTEM IN LOGISTICS

1. Sea.

     Mode of transport is a term used to distinguish substantially different ways to perform transport. The most dominant modes of transport are air, land and ship transport. Other modes also exist, including pipelines, cable transport, and space transport. Then, sea, air, and land are the most popular and getting wide because of the customer demands over the world.

          The most popular mode is sea transportation which is the largest carrier and freight by vessel, such as, bulk carrier, tanker, and container vessel and also passenger’s cruiser. There is because every generation vessel will be upgrade and also getting bigger in order to full fill customer demands. Nowadays, for the merchant vessel, the largest vessel is Triple E that can carried 18,000 TEU per voyage. Nowadays, the cruiser or passenger carrier demand getting decrease because of the aviation or air transportation can travel faster than cruiser.

The advantages by using this sea transportation in logistic:

·          Low Cost:

         Cheaper than road transport depending on cargo and route.

·         Fuel Efficient:

        In general, shipping uses up to six times less fuel than road transport and around half the amount needed for rail operations.

·         Low Carbon Emissions:

        In terms of grams of CO₂ emitted per ton-kilometer, coastal shipping emits just 16g, barge transport around 31g, rail 22g and road 62g.

·         Safer:

        Shipping operates away from people and is 90 times safer than road transport and five times safer than rail.

  2. Air  

            Air transportation is luxury and urgent cargo which is needed to arrive for a short time period and it air freight is high than the other transport rates. It is difficult to accomplish any international trading, global export or import processes, international repositioning of raw materials or products and manufacturing without a professional logistical support. It is involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging.

Advantages using Air type of information in logistics:

·         No Physical Barrier:

Air transport is free from physical barriers because it follows the shortest and direct routes where seas, mountains and forests do not obstruct.

·         High Speed:

Air transport is the fastest mode of transport and therefore suitable carriage of goods over a long distance requiring less time. There is no substitute for air transport when the transport of goods is required urgently.

·         Quick Service:

Air transport provides comfortable, efficient and quick transport service. It is regarded as best mode of transport for transporting perishable goods.

3. Land.

            Land transportation is the 3^rd importance after the air transportation which is cheaper than air transportation. There is because this land transportation not use many fuel consumption than air and sea transportation. This transportation also the safe transportation, but the cargo maybe not arrived or delayed at the final destination because of traffic jammed, involve in traffic accident and etc.

            Land transportation is movement of people, animals, and goods from one location to another on land, usually by rail or road. Rail transport is where a train runs along a set of two parallel steel rails. A road is an identifiable route, way or path between two or more places. 

Advantages using Land type of information in logistics:

·         Flexible:

        Road transport is highly flexible, this is because the cars employed can stop any where to collect the goods. Another methods will require movements of goods to the areas for them to be effective.

·         Cheap:

        This mode of carry is considerably little as compared to other types of transportation such as air. A new distance that can be included using cars can cost less amount of money the fare or encouraging the car in case it turned out a private car.