Do you know the metaphorical sense of transportation and management? It looks as simple as moving from one place to another but involves complex conceptual understanding and actions. Think about your personal travels in details. It typically starts from the place of your stay or house and covers a series of complex logistics till you reach your destination. Boarding the plane and getting out of the plane, is the broader description of your travel in brief. But what about mode of travel to the airport? What about preparing your luggage? Don’t you need the involvement of other people while booking the ticket? Get associated with Fortuna Transport to avail A to Z services for your transportation and logistics.
As per Wikipedia, the definition of transportation is moving of people, goods and animals from a specific place to another through different mode of transportations which may include personal or public transports like road transport, by rail road, airways, waterways, pipeline, cable, space or any other means. The concept can be categorised in three broader parts, (1) infrastructure, (2) vehicle, and (3) operation.
Eventually, transportation is very important because it is through transportation trade and commerce takes place between people which ultimately establishes civilizations. Therefore, transportation is the enabler of communication and civilization.
Through an industrial context, logistics is explained as the science and art of receiving, producing, disbursing products and materials in the proper quantities, in the proper places, in the proper time. In the proper condition and in the proper cost or price. In a military context, logistics is understood even with greater usages and involve movement of personnel, equipment and materials along with the above description.
As per the definition of the “Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals” (CSCMP), logistics refers to the processes of proper planning, appropriate implementation and the procedures of controlling of the effective and efficient storage and transportation of goods, services and information from the origin point to the end point which may be the point of consumption based on the requirement of the customers. Logistic includes management of inbound freight, outbound freight, external and internal movement.
By now, you must be clearly understanding that transportation and logistics are two different aspects but closely associated with each other and fulfil he purposes of each other. They begin in one place and end at the same place. Both contribute to each other enormously. Without transportation, logistics will never happen, and in the absence of logistics, transportation will never be completed.
