The objective of this assignment is to promote the literature review and analysis evaluation of the topics discussed in this week. You need to select one of the topics from the lecture and make a case study research. From this case study, you will need to develop an one page essay with the following components:
CASE STUDY
Transportation and Logistics: The Case for Dubai Ports World
1) What global factors have contributed to the growth of the transportation and logistics industry? How have they contributed to this growth?
Transportation is defined as the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to another. And logistics can be known as the art and science of obtaining, producing, and distributing material and product in the proper place and in proper quantities and can also include the movement of personnel.
As we know , the global transportation and logistics industry is one of the part of the important factors that contributed to the expansion of transportation and logistics. So there have several factor that led to contribution of growth of transportation and logistics industry which is the advance technology, separation of raw material, risk of supply chin, the environment , exchange rate and the competitive.
Firstly, advance technology is one of the part of factor that led to growth transportation and logistics industry. This is because the advanced technology is the tool to facilitate in industry. The function of technology in this industry is to make the system of industry be more easier and systematic either to employee or customer. Besides that, using the advanced of technology in this industry will be make sophiscated to computer, server, database system that will help to store the data. In fact, advanced of technology will help companies to improve operational efficiency by tracking resources thus the Dubai is the World Ports of this industry.