Lecture AIW/IPM, BAU, SP „Internationale Transportketten“

IMP/IPM „Internationale Logistik/International Logistics“

Content
Against the background of profoundly changed economic-technical and basic societal
conditions companies today operate in significantly modified surroundings as well as in an
intensified competition on markets. The deregulation and liberalisation of markets, the
reduction of trade restraints, the rationalisation potentials of microelectronics as well as the
expansion of traffic infrastructure enable world-wide production and trade connections, in
which logistics is often a central competition factor.
The DIN 30781 defines transportation chains generally as a “... series of technically or
organisationally linked procedures, in which persons or goods are moved from source to
destination. The transportation chain is to be understood as a system.” Thus international
transportation chains can be termed as definable sections in corporate comprehensive logistic
chains.

Intention
The intention of this lecture is to provide a general overview of how international
transportation chains emerge and how they are developed. The respective advantages and
disadvantages of different international transportation chains of goods are to be pointed out
from a micro- and a macroeconomic point of view. Through this lecture, students will be
enabled to understand the correlations between ecology, mobility of goods, formation of
space-time-structures, location choices of industry, trade and logistic as well as traffic systems
and infrastructure. The effects on traffic and space as well as the ecological and social
consequences of a spatial dispersion of economical activities are to be discussed.
The overview of current international transportation chains is to be provided on the basis of
concrete material flows and appendant information flows. Potential transportation chains and
some of their individual elements are to become transparent to the students by a number of
practical examples and excursions.

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 Lecture AIW/IPM, BAU, SP „Internationale Transportketten“
IMP/IPM „Internationale Logistik/International Logistics“
Summer Semester 2007

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heike Flämig flaemig@tuhh.de

Dr. Philine Gaffron MLA BSc p.gaffron@tuhh.de
Dipl.-Log. Jutta Wolff Jutta Wolff@tuhh.de
Dipl.-Bio. Dipl.-Kfm. (FH) Peer Seipold Peer.Seipold@@tuhh.de
Gast lecturers: Dipl.-Ing. Axel Schönknecht axel.schönknecht@tuhh.de
Andrea Broaddus MSc andrea.broaddus@gmail.com
Course registration: Mrs Evelyne Peters e.peters@tuhh.de
B 9 Verkehrsplanung und Logistik/
transport planning and logistics
Tel: 42878-3519
Room: 1.079 in SBS 95

First lecture: 04.04.2007 Last lecture: 12.07.2006

Time: 12:30 – 14:00 Location: Room D1023 in SBS 95
No. Contents Responsible Date
1 Introduction: Flämig 04.04.2007
Student's Union (AStA) General Meeting no lecture 11.04.2007
2 Elements of integrated and multi-modal Flämig 18.04.2007
transportation chains
3 Logistics and traffic: the correlation between the Flämig 25.04.2007
mobility of goods and the traffic system
4 Global Issues in Supply Chain Management Flämig 02.05.2007
5 Maritime transport and the profitability of container Schönknecht 09.05.2007
ships
6 Global Players and networks Flämig 16.05.2007
7 7:00 Excursion: Großmarkt Hamburg Flämig/Seipold 23.05.2007
8 Design and Management of physical goods flow Flämig 23.05.2007
Pentecost vacation no lecture 30.05.2007
9 Case Study Analysis: Broaddus 06.06.2007
Southwest Airlines in Baltimore
10 Logistics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) Flämig 13.06.2007
11 Methods and data for assessment of international Wolff/ Hertel 20.06.2007
transport chains
12 Costs of transport chains Gaffron 27.06.2007
13 Lecture review Flämig/ Wolff 04.07.2007
Information about the written examination
14 Excursion: to be confirmed 12.07.2007
If you want to work out case studies please let me know.

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