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I worked with maritime shipping folks, and they always say "We don't care how slow it is, but we care A LOT to estimate the time it takes right". The logistica
by deepsun 11mo ago
I worked with maritime shipping folks, and they always say "We don't care how slow it is, but we care A LOT to estimate the time it takes right".
The logistical chain is long, so delaying one link breaks the whole chain, and that's costly.
- ainiriand 11mo agoThis is one thing my company tries to solve!
- contrarian1234 11mo agothat doesn't really make any sense. You'd just overestimate the time and if you arrived ahead of schedule you'd wait out at sea for the "correct" time
- dvratil 11mo agoBut that's extra time when the ship is sitting idle, while it could've already been on its way with new cargo, making more money.
- deepsun 11mo agoNot so easy. Oftentimes there's no place to store the offloaded containers, and parking spaces are limited too. Probably a ship can also park "on the street" aka in open ocean, if weather agree, but I didn't see that. Same thing with train carts that arrive to pick up the containers -- there's little place to park them to wait.