The BBC Container Box

In order to answer the following questions "What does globalisation mean? How does world trade really work? How much difference has the humble shipping container made to the massive growth of the global economy and how does it affect your life?" BBC has been following a container around the world for one year (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2008/the_box/default.stm)

Together with it you can find videos on how the container got painted, what are containers used for after their "life" is over,the arrival of the container in multiple ports Singapore/Santos/Shangai or the passage through the suez canal. The effect of the crisis can be seen throught the videos were they state how much the cost of container transport has droped, sometimes reaching to a 50% decrease, ships not traveilng at their full capacity and some ships being "layed out". The importance of the supply chain gets into the light in these videos. If the goods do not arrive right on time to the port, they are not shipped, so they miss their train in the other side to arrive to the other side of the country and on time to the shop. For seasonal products a miss might be a loss. A delay and you may losse your client... but with so many players in a supply chain, how can one reach full efficiency?

The videos are short and superficial, but if you are intrested dont forget to go into the link!

The future store

A bit long.... but a nice video of the Metro New Future Store.
I visited in Germany 2 years ago, and its quite awesome when you have it infront of your eyes...
It will make you the itinerary in the shop, tell you the offers on the products you are searching, no need to take the things out of your cart to pay :)

Here is the video :)

Dream Job

Dream Job....

Singapore, 24 August 2007

Dear People,

Did anybody know that this existed???

Logisticians without borders!! Their mission statement is: To provide significant added value to Relief Agencies worldwide through the provision of volunteer logistician services including the sourcing, solicitation, purchase and provision of required logistics equipment, services and relief materials.


Yours ,

The logistics geek

I ahir..visita tot el dia al port de Rotterdam .....containers, containers i mes containers...

Containers blancs son els containers refrigerats!!

mireu mireu mireu com s aixeca!! I despres sopar amb tots...Les fotos arribaran aviat...

I avui, estudi,reunions,estudi i despres...aniversari de la Undine...

Fent el tonto...Dudok, conegut per els seus pastis de poma i si si, estava bonissim!!

I els altres amagats alla al radera....

Es pot ven dir que aquest any ens ha tocat un bon grup de gent a la clase!!

Where is your luggage????

This is what i study now a days, conveyor belts, and transport systems within warehouses...besides orderpicking systems of course ;-) quite intresting actually!

Divendres a les 8.45 ens vem trobar tots els de la clase a Duiven, una ciutat que esta a la frontera amb alemania. Tenir que ser alla a les 8.45 va voler dir aixecarse a les 5 del mati.. i no va ser pas per diversio. Teniem la obligacio de ser al poligon industrial de duiven a les 8.45 per fer una visita al magatzem d una empresa.

Pensareu que estic sonada pero em va encantar, vam estar alla durant 4 hores fent la visita..... tot sobre els temes de logistica de com guarden els productes, de com mouen els productes, com els posen als camions,

tots els diferents tipus de maquines, pallets, cintes transportadores, mecanismes per moure els palets. Mireu les fotos! Segur que us semblarà súper interessant (sobretot a certa gent).

Aquí les tenim amb unes cares de estar súper contentes desprès d haverse aixecat d hora per conduir fins l altre banda del país! Per sort no vam tenir embussos!

Finalment vem pujar als cotxes i vem tornar cap a la uni, alguns amb mes presses que altres perquè ja era la 1 del migdia ens quedaven dues hores de viatge i a les 5 teníem que entregar un treball... Per sort jo l havia acabat, no se com l hagués pogut acabar el divendres ja que nomes arribar a casa em vaig quedar roque, portava uns dies sense parar.

Ara encara ens toquen dues visites mes, mes una visita a la fira de logística mes important del Benelux. Clar que si no hi volem anar no hi tenim que anar…però llavors suspendrem la assignatura…hmmmm