A STUDY ON PROCESS AND DOCUMENTATION AT CONTAINER FREIGHT STATION

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

Container freight stations came into being as a strategic response by many ports to sort out the issues of congestion inside the port. It therefore becomes necessary to analyse the business models adopted by the CFS’s. the objective of this study were to establish models adopted by Container freight stations, the value a company offers to the customers that enable the customer to pay and hence allow the organisation to make profits. Some of the studies done in this area indicate that business models are key to enhancing a company’s performance and can also give it competitive advantage over other companies. During out study we learned about various Import/Export procedures carried out at CFS and the documentation. A majority of the CFS’s handled a variety of commodities and most of the customers were that the CFS had approached for business and they thus did not depend much on port rebates as a source of revenue. This that most of the CFS’s had changed their way of doing business in the changing environment. Thus the should be very clear guidelines on what exactly CFS’s are meant to do. The fact that they came in as a response to problems of congestion.

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