From the earliest days of ocean commerce until the early 1960s, the method of loading and accounting for cargo aboard ships changed very little--cargo was lifted aboard one piece at a time and manually documented. With the innovation of the shipping container, transportation efficiency vastly improved. Rapid loading and automated documentation were two of the reasons for the increased efficiency. For a variety of reasons, the military has lagged behind the commercial transportation industry in the use of containers. As a result, the military lacks a viable method of determining container content using documentation alone. This inability to determine container content was demonstrated in the port of Dammam during Desert Shield/Storm. Of the 40,000 containers in the port, 25,000 required opening to determine their contents.


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    Titel :

    Container Management during Desert Shield/Storm: An Analysis and Critique of Lessons Learned


    Beteiligte:
    C. Hall (Autor:in) / V. Bernhard (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1993


    Format / Umfang :

    53 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch