Academic literature on the topic 'Interaction of participants of the freight forwarding system'

Main goal of this work is the analysis of the interaction of participants of freight forwarding activities. Research methods included analysis of scientific literature, theory of systems and systems analysis, methods of induction and deduction. As sources of information used and applied work of fundamental importance known foreign and local scientists and regulatory and legislative documents of Ukraine for the state transport policy. In the article the basic interactions of participants of freight forwarding activities. Classified components freight forwarding services. Assign the concept freight forwarding system and its aim. Established element and forms of cooperation in the freight forwarding system. The main task of forwarding companies are organizing, coordinating and ensuring the delivery from shipper to consignee. Freight forwarding company responsible for the timely delivery of the goods on the condition of preservation of the quantity and quality specified time conditions. Currently used methods are uneffective decision-making, leading to losses. These circumstances require improvement methodology management of freight forwarding companies. This is possible only using modern mathematical methods and information technologies that will improve the operation of freight forwarding companies. The article presents a theoretical exposition of the basic processes of interaction between participants in freight forwarding system. The article may be of interest to specialists of freight forwarding companies.

Purpose: To justify the use of a digital platform at organization of rail freight transportation, allowing to minimize transportation costs, delivery time, time loss at all stages of lifecycle and to simplify significantly the access to infrastructure facilities. The given study confirms that the introduction of advanced digital technologies into intermodal freight transportation system contributes to the effective interaction between railway companies, seaports and regulatory authorities. Methods: Analytical methods of reporting data of Asian and European railway companies — members of International Railway Union, Russian and foreign forwarding companies as well as data of Russia Federal Customs Service and foreign customs authorities are used. Results: The procedure for documentation electronic processing, using mobile workstations, is systematized, the effects from creation of pilot freight transportation are determined, the importance of the expansion of digital environment of trust between participants in intermodal freight transportation — railway companies, seaports and regulatory authorities — is substantiated. Practical importance: The obtained results have an applied character since they propose and justify a number of measures aimed at stirring up of electronic interaction of cargo transportation process participants.

<em>The article is devoted to the problem of formation of multimodal transport ecosystem in Ukraine and reveals features of mutual relations of participants of the logistic service market in the digital economy conditions. In the process of the study, the fragmentary and multi-vector nature of the existing regulatory and legal support of logistics activities in Ukraine, freight forwarding and transportation of goods by different modes of transport were determined. The conclusion is made about the need for legislative support of multimodal transportation, taking into account environmental requirements and current trends in the digitalization of the logistics business to ensure the delivery of goods &ldquo;door to door&rdquo;. The necessity of an ecosystem approach to the development of the concept of multimodal transport development and ensuring the partnership of market participants in order to create an integrated multimodal service is proved. The structure of the multimodal transport ecosystem in Ukraine is proposed, which provides the possibility of vertical and horizontal interaction of market participants, standardization of logistics processes, unification of cargo batches and automation of procedures related to document management in a single information system. Based on statistical analysis, the main problems and opportunities for the development of multimodal transport in Ukraine have been identified. It is concluded that the removal of existing barriers can be a powerful stimulus to improve the quality of multimodal logistics services and will realize the transit potential of Ukraine.</em>

The main purpose of the article is to study the essence of transport and forwarding activities, the prerequisites for its occurrence, elements and participants, the production process, material and technical components, personnel support, the impact of the cost of transport and forwarding services on the cost of cargo transportation, the features of the organization and the specifics of international transport and forwarding activities and transport and forwarding activities at the national level. The paper examines the role of international globalization, transport processes and transport and forwarding activities in the development, implementation and implementation of sales contracts at the national and international level, in the evolution of trade and other counterparty relations in business. The main core of the article is the substantiation of the essence and role of TEK in the development and formation of market mechanisms, the economic system, trade relations and the transport system in general, creating favorable conditions for the implementation of activities in other sectors of the economy, developing the infrastructure of the country's economic sectors. Within the framework of the study, the main reasons and prerequisites for the emergence of transport and forwarding companies are determined, the influence of TEK on the efficiency of logistics processes on the international market is outlined.The main factors for the separation of transport and forwarding activity into a separate type of business activity are determined and the ways of choosing effective logistics chains, taking into account the cost, material and technical and time components, are proposed. The economic feasibility of using such specialized logistics structures as transport-forwarding companies and logistics providers is substantiated.The article outlines the main features of transport and forwarding services, defines their structure and pays attention to business processes in transport and forwarding activities. Factors of motivation and involvement of participants in the transport process and the role of the freight forwarder-intermediary were determined. The paper outlines the main trends in the national and international freight forwarding market, such as the expansion of the range of services that freight forwarders offer to cargo owners.Keywords: transport, freight transportation chain, freight forwarding activity, international transportation, transport activity.

As an emerging foreign trade model, crossborder E-commerce is booming. This foreign trade model shortens the distance between products from manufacturers to foreign consumers and reshapes the value chain of foreign trade. However, because buyers and sellers use virtualization. Negotiations and consultations on the platform may also involve the participation of freight forwarders and the services of shipping companies, which increases the uncertainty of the transaction process and results. How to efficiently and confidentially transfer information to each other is the main idea and goal of this paper. Foreign buyers, domestic sellers, shipping companies, and freight forwarding companies are independent entities. Due to common transaction events, the interaction between the four parties has been promoted. However, independent information systems cannot exchange information (or content) with other entities. Based on this point, our goal has formulated an integrated freight forwarding program.

The issue of creating international legislation capable of regulating the sphere of forwarding has been considered for quite a long time. The actively expanding volume of services provided by freight forwarders and the increasing blurring of its role and area of responsibility create problems in the mutual understanding of the participants in the client– forwarder – third party chain. The main obstacle to the implementation of an international legislative act is the difference in the laws and customs of individual countries. To identify these differences, the authors analyzed such factors as the range of services provided by the forwarder, the conditions of access to the forwarding market, the type of representation used by forwarders in the contract and the definition of the boundaries of the forwarder's responsibility to the client. The analysis was carried out by studying national legal acts regulating the field of forwarding, as well as the general conditions of forwarding applied by members of national associations of forwarding and logistics in countries with a civil law system. The greatest difference was revealed in the field of conditions of access to the forwarding market, while the functionality of the forwarder, the types of representation used and the limits of responsibility of forwarders from different countries did not indicate any big differences. The result of the work is the conclusion that there are no critical differences in the work of freight forwarders of countries with a civil law system that can hinder the unification of forwarding conditions.

This article examines types of informational technologies application problems, shows their scheme, observes basic data structures of technological problems, principles and methods of modeling these structures. It is noted that the solution of transport technology problems is based on the improvement of technological supply, the rational usage of informational modeling methodology of the whole transportation process. There are informational search and presentation computerized technologies when indexation and coding system are used to create them. As an example, dangerous freight forwarding resolution codification is shown, which is used for searching the most important resolutions and for their presentation to all the dangerous freight-forwarding participants. The present informational search and presentation programs that improve the possibilities of the presented search are observed as well.

This research emphasises the transformative power of digital solutions in Lithuanian forwarding companies, addressing the necessity for a systematic risk assessment to optimise processes and mitigate associated risks. The survey indicates an increasing adoption of digital solutions, with around two-thirds of companies already utilising them. A case study employing the AHP method identifies three key digital solutions: invoice automation, waybill digitisation and blockchain. A combined solution called a “document flow and management system”, showed significant potential for time and cost savings. Three risks – synchronising participants, employee resistance, and a lack of specialists – are identified as having the highest overall assessment and were selected for further analysis while implementing the prioritised digital solution. The expert evaluation identifies employee resistance as the most probable risk, posing potential significant losses in the initial post-implementation phase. Although issues with synchronising participants could yield similar losses, experts view this risk as less probable than employee resistance. After the AHP analysis, it was decided to evaluate the current information and document flow process, in other words, to optimise the process. The optimisation results show that freight forwarding companies could reduce document management time by up to 59%.