Dear readers! The tenth issue of LOGISTICS journal opens with a large article dedicated to the results of the BRICS Business Forum, held on October 18, 2024 in Moscow. Yulia Kislova, Director of Agency Market Guide LLC and publisher of LOGISTICS journal, attended the event and prepared an article where she paid special attention to international trade and logistical connectivity of the countries of the association. The details are in the room.
Dear readers! We present to your attention the ninth issue of the Logistics magazine, in which we have collected and combined relevant materials. On the pages of the new issue, we paid close attention to the personnel problem. You will be interested in SuperJob's research on changes in demand for personnel over the year, salaries of truck drivers and warehouse staff. Our author V.S.
Dear readers! First of all, we would like to welcome all participants of the grand industry event – the CeMAT RUSSIA exhibition, which will be held from September 17 to 19, 2024, in Moscow, Crocus Expo IEC, Pavilion 1. LOGISTICS magazine will be presented at the event, we invite you to our stand C309, where you can get acquainted with the latest issue of the magazine and find out the terms of cooperation with the editorial office.
Annotation. The possibility of lifting the ban on the transportation of high-capacity containers in universal rolling stock (in gondola cars) and potential effects on the transport market is considered. Concrete steps are proposed to build logistics chains of transportation that balance the interests of the infrastructure owner, carrier, cargo owners and rolling stock operators.
Key words. Container, gondola car, fitting, platform, logistics, terminal, railway.
Annotation. The article considers and defines the concepts of freight forwarder and carrier, including by type of transport. The principal differences between a freight forwarder and a carrier are accumulated and formulated. A brief analysis of the differences in the rights and obligations, as well as the responsibility of the freight forwarder and the carrier under the contract of freight forwarding and cargo transportation is considered and carried out.
Key words. Transport, freight forwarder, carrier, freight forwarding agreement, contract of carriage, rights of the freight forwarder, liability of the carrier.
Annotation. The article analyzes the European experience of creating and functioning a transcontinental transport and logistics system on the example of Portugal in the period from 1961 to 1974.
Key words. Types of transport, cargo and passenger transport, African colonies.
Annotation. The article discusses the possibilities of expanding cooperation between international airports of regional importance within the framework of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union and the implementation of the EAEU's coordinated transport policy in the field of air transport and its integration with the Silk Road economic belt. On the example of the tariff policy implemented in 2017 at Almaty International Airport JSC, its results and their impact on the achievement of the EAEU targets in the field of air transport are analyzed. It’s assessed the readiness of the Advisory Committee on Transport and Infrastructure and its subcommittee on civil aviation to organize the work of a digital decision-making system when choosing a method and basis for the airport charges.
Key words. Eurasian Economic Union, transport policy, Silk Road economic belt, international regional airport, airport fees and tariffs, theory of active systems.
Annotation. In the article, the concept of «logistics» as a basic factor in the organization of various systems in transport, as a philosophy of adaptive survival of complex systems, is the interconnection of individual elements with each other, thereby determining the integrity of these systems. The logistic element acts as an indivisible set of actions in the form of unbreakable mutual obligations, described by random processes with a history and consequences.
Key words. Logistics, transport, social systems, socio-technical systems, organization, efficiency.
Annotation. In the article a model for the formation of the optimal region transport infrastructure is proposed. The model is based on the task of finding the optimal location of vehicle fleets and terminals on the basis of the formed network of distribution and sorting warehouses and the demand uncertainty on the part of goods consumers served by this warehouse infrastructure.
Key words. Тransport infrastructure, vehicle fleets, distribution and sorting warehouses, stochastic model, stochastic demand.