Logistics

international rules
- Uniform Rules concerning the Contract for International. Carriage of Goods by Rail


impact of protectionism
- http://www.economist.com/news/business/21716074-fedexs-founder-will-spend-more-time-campaigning-free-trade-logistics-companies-fear

documentation
- 單證交易 - package of following

• bill of lading

• three purposes - acknowledges that goods have been received; contains The terms of contract of carriage; regareded in law as a document of title
• can be made out in an order bill (named person or order), straight bill  (named person only)
• never a negotiable instrument 

•  Straight bill of lading is a non-negotiable bill of lading. It is used where the goods have been paid for or do not require payment such as donations or gifts. Under this bill of lading, the shipping company will deliver the shipment to its consignee on presentation of identification. It is also called consignment bill of lading.

• invoice
• packing list
• other documents with description of consignment

- contract

• loading port as basis: fob (free on board, 買方指定貨代), seller responsible for export procedures before consignment loaded on ship, then inform buyer to arrange insurance; buyer arrange freight forward and inform seller (freight collect)
• free alongside ship - fas: essentially sane as a strict fob, save that the seller's duty to merely get the goods alongside the ship nominated by the b8uyer.
• destination port as basis: cnf (cost and freight) , cif (cnf+insurance), buyer only need to arrange receipt and import procedures upon consignment arrival (freight prepaid)

• role of documentations important in cif, if not in order, the buyer can reject them

• dap contracts ( or ex ship or arrival contracts) - property and risk will pass with delivery of possession 
• cip is the non- marine equivalent of cif : seller to arrange carriage of goods to buyer and insure them in transit
• fca (free carrier) - up to buyer to provide transport unless otherwise agreed
• ddp (delivered duty paid) 

- insurance

• free from particular average (fpa)
• with average or with particular average (wa or wpa)
• all risk (ar)

- jargon

• cif emp - europe main port (eg rotterdam, hamburg etc)
• firm offer, non-firm offer
• fcl - full container loading, lcl - less than container loading

Lithium Batteries
- http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1735248/china-crucial-reducing-global-lithium-battery-hazard

The Fleet Management Systems Interface (FMS) is a standard interface to vehicle data of commercial vehicles. The six European manufacturers Daimler AG, MAN AG, Scania, Volvo(including Renault), DAF Trucks and IVECO developed the so-called FMS-Standard in 2002 to make manufacturer-independent applications for telematics possible.

port management
- automation

• 5月11日，隨着 「中遠法國」 輪最後一個集裝箱裝船到位，青島港 全自動化集裝箱碼頭商業運行的首條船舶作業完畢。與傳統碼頭不同的 是，裝箱過程中整個碼頭 「空無一人」 ，生產作業卻 「行雲流水」 。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170513/PDF/a18_screen.pdf

Bus
- The first double-decker bus was invented in Paris in 1853; it was a horse-drawn omnibus. The upper floor was cheaper and often uncovered. The first double-decker motor bus in Paris, the Schneider Brillié P2, appeared in 1906. It was designed to carry more passengers and to replace the horse-drawn double-decker omnibus. Like trams and omnibuses, double-decker motor buses included two classes of travel: first class inside the car and second class outdoors on top. But this type of vehicle was withdrawn in 1911 because one of them overturned at place de l'Étoile; following this incident the P2s lost their upper deck and were renamed as P3s. It wss not until 1966 that the RATP retried double-deckers on two lines in Paris. A prototype built by Berliet (type E-PCMR), was put into service in 1966, with an order being placed for 25 vehicles. The first production car was commissioned on 19 June 1968 on line 94, Gare Montparnasse - Levallois. On 17 February 1969, line 53, Opera - Porte d'Asnieres was in turn equipped with this model. But traffic problems caused RATP to definitively abandon this vehicle in 1977, because this type of bus is poorly suited to the structure of the Paris network, the stops being too close to each other which prevented people from going upstairs. Hence, there are no Parisian mass transit lines using double-decker buses. SITAC operates a service 5 between Calais and Sangatte using a double decker bus.Double decker buses were in use on city services in Vienna between 1960 and 1991.^[8] They are also operated by Ötztaler Verkehrsgesellschaft (ÖVG) under contract to ÖBB-Postbus on service 4420 between Innsbruck and Lienz.
- Ce type de bus est très populaire dans certaines villes d'Europeet de certaines parties de l'Asie(généralement d'anciennes colonies britanniques). Parmi les plus célèbres on peut noter ceux de Londres apparus en 1910, ceux de Berlin en 1906 et ceux de Hong Kong en 1949.



shared cab
- https://www.ft.com/content/17058dc4-9f09-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946 shareholders of various shared cab companies


Event
- http://www.thefreightsummit.com/event/about-tfs.php

Academic literature
- report of china logistics development 2011 by ndrc and others
- creating value through advanced logistics (2012)
- shenzhen supply chain management induapstry development report (2012)
- supply chain perspectives and issues in china published by fung global institute and fung business intelligence centre (2013)