Is PSR just another shorthand for cost cutting? It seems shippers think they are getting more financial responsibility for admin and maintenance now that most class I rails have adopted PSR practices.
Firms are usually trying to save money. And with the declines and constraints of COVID-19, I’m sure cost cutting is being practiced. but are shippers seeing the short end of the stick on important practices?
It would not surprise me; perhaps rails need a warning to shape up.
Posted in Logistics, Rail, Service Management, Supply Chains
Tagged maintenance, operations, PSR, Rail
The crew change crisis continues. Some very strong remarks by Hugo De Stoop, CEO of Belgian tanker giant Euronav, at the International Chamber of Shipping webinar indicated that ship owners’ desire to hide out from problems like crew welfare means they have no power to force governments to let their nationals back in. Their flag states have little influence on the world stage.
It’s the worst crisis in 200 years. And it’s a humanitarian crisis, as so many of the COVID-19-induced crises are. Who will step up and take action?
By Sam Chambers September 10, 2020
Posted in Logistics, Service Management, Shipping
Tagged coronavirus, labor economics, labor relations, Logistics, Shipping
The speaker, Stefan Pieters of Jan de Rijk, was speaking of the relation between road hauliers and airport stakeholders. I believe most hauliers at ports, warehouses, inland terminals, and any cargo transfer points would be saying the same thing. And so far there has been little effort on this score.
Truckers are the low person on the pole, and are not connected to the facilities they must rely on for service. They have no leverage. So their problems go ignored.
There is a lot of money to be made by coordinating this aspect of the trucking business, if anyone will step up and do it.
And as the interview claims, data takes you only so far. There has to be a willingness to act and change procedures, rather than just send data. Facilities don’t want to recognize that; it requires workers with the power to make decisions on behalf of the cargo owner, and that would erode ‘profits’, meaning costs. You’d have to pay workers more for the ability to make decisions.
It makes a stronger case for end-to-end coordination by the same vendor, such as Amazon or Wal-Mart. But truckers would still often be left out.
By Alex Lennane 13/07/2020
‘Data sharing is nice, but cooperation is key’ to ending congestion, says Jan de Rijk – The Loadstar
Posted in Logistics, Service Management, Strategy, Supply Chains, Trucking
Tagged cooperation, Logistics, supply chains, trucking
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