Transformation of the organization of multimodal transportation under martial law

Abstract

Multimodal transportations plays a huge role in global economy. A lot of manufactures require different components, located in different remote sectors. In order not to discontinue production processes, multimodal transportation is used. Especially, the war influenced on the whole multimodal transportation system in Ukraine. Ports, harbors and sea ports stopped it’s further operation. The main role was fallen on road transportation. A plenty of airports were totally destroyed, the most of main harbor became in occupation, it’s further operation is impossible until the full victory of Ukraine. The road transportation became as the save link for supply chains and further economy operating. The one of the main problems in this situation is choosing of the optimal way and best-suited carrier for sequel carriage. The truck corporations continue cooperating with the airline agents, but the basic hubs of them were moved to the neighbor countries, it can appear new questions for optimization the delivery. Such factor as price, quality of the services, distance and time always plays a huge role in supply chains. The main aim of the transport company and its staff during multimodal transportation is to provide the delivery of goods, that were ordered by the manufacture just in time providing it’s safe and integrity. For optimization of all this factors according to the consignee’s preferences the expert evaluation methods are used in given research. There are lot of additional services attracted in such cases, such as: loading, unloading, repacking, changing the kind of packing (boxes, pallets, container repacking and other), in which sub-contractors take part. The union of all this processes mentioned above gives the opportunity to create the whole system of supplying the good from its seller to buyer. Every process is unique depending on the current situation and terms of delivery.