Development of a Technological Solution for the Consolidation of Orders for the Transportation of Goods as Part of Accelerated Container Trains

Student: Topka Anna

Faculty: St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management

Educational Programme: Strategic Management in Logistics (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

In the final qualification work, the possibility of creating a consolidated “shipper” - a cargo aggregator that will help to solve a number of problems when sending small consignments by rail is considered. To this end, an analysis was made of the market for container transportation by rail, in particular, the market for accelerated container trains. A study was conducted on which carriers transport containers in the composition of accelerated container trains, the main directions of transportation were identified. Based on the data obtained, a schedule of accelerated container trains of all operators was compiled, and the economic feasibility of the proposed solution was calculated.

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