Comparison and contrast of the general facilities and operations at DFW and Dubai Cargo Village

Dallas has a facility with unique features homogeneous the modify people mover, under this remains the supplier personnel maintain the dodge while the owner operator the system. twain the supplier and the owner sh bes the facilities, this system was intentional and enforced by the APM program.While in Dubai onus they dont find the automated people movers systems. In m unrivaledtary value of their size Dubai circle around is the bigger as compargond to DFW. some(prenominal) centers are similar in terms of meeting the regulation and standard desexualise out by the aviation authority. (Uher 2005)The out of sight behave of the UPS Worldport operationThe hidden secret sauce of the worldport is the flex. This is because flex manages the configuration of the mental synthesis. All the applications which deposit on each other write out the destination of the mailboat. Flex executes the configuration both times within one occurrence day.One his done during the night shift (for the software packages of the contiguous day) and the other is done during the day shift. (It accomplish over three hundred thousands plunk for day air packages) The package tracking data is fed into the UPS data center in Mahwah, NJ by the twain systems (one for international and one for domestic).The information is by and by used by the customer to settle their luggages or goods via the UPS website. After a package has completed its journey through the one hundred and twenty two miles, the package is directed to a destination jump out that is pissed off into a container, after which it is thus rolled into the aircraft.In the sinless process packages are only handled twice by the human being beings this is during loading and when unloading. Before the containers are loaded to the aircraft, they are pushed into the automated scales where they are weighed and checked.As the operate container is being loaded into the aircraft, the conveyors belts hum ceases momentari ly and the worldport be get under ones skins almost static for a short duration. After a few hours a tender team of TSG technicians start to inspect the IT hardware as they prepare for the next shift.The system volition be reconfigured and a new look plan will be hypothecate by flex. This system can be used with other companies, if done it is belike to increase the efficiency of the services that the troupe is delivering. (Uher 2005)Advantages and Disadvantages of the Hub and spoke system to MASkargoThe disadvantages are whatsoever disruption at the hub like a security problem or big weather can result into delays into the inbuilt system. secondly the operation efficiency of the entire system is greatly affected by hubs subject matter, thirdly it is difficult to entry a flight given that the air lane has to take into consideration all the inescapably of the spokes, eventually opposite airlines are selecting different cities has hubs this makes it difficult for the airl ine to get a reliable partner. . (Singh B 2003)The advantages are it centralizes the operation, this makes it cheaper for the friendship in terms of management lastly all the packages can be degage at the hub. (Singh B 2003)The major milepost achieved by Emirates Sky Cargo in 2005-2006Emirates Sky cargo succeeded in achieving the following(a) they bought three Airbus A 310 301Ft in Germany. This was difference to be the first airbus that the airline was going away to have. By buying the airbus the alliance succeeded in increasing the number of customers that they were going to serve, the company has also built a new center which is the biggest in Middle East.Comparison of the change Building 5 to MASkargo, Qatar and Emirates centersThe cargo building 5 has a handling length that measures 250,000 cheering feet, it has windows mezzanine office office measuring 37,000 square feet, its aircraft apron pose is 440,450 square feet, storage space of 440,450 square feet.This makes i t bigger than the MASkargo center in Malaysia just the building is smaller as compared to Emirates and the Qatar centers. The drain system of the four centers are the same, this is because they have to adhere to the international standards.The importance of capacity planning to airdrome management in regards to aircraft or passengersCapacity planning is important because it helps the drome authority to handle the traffic at the airport. Whenever the airport authority knows the numbers of planes that the airport can handle they cannot not endure any excess plane to come into the airport, this will reduce the number of accidents that are likely to occur in the airport as a result of congestion.ReferenceSingh B 2003 Cargo crunch Malaysian business sector News paper June 16th 2003 issueUher M 2005 Schriftenreihe des Instituts fr Transportwirtschaft & deoxyadenosine monophosphate Logistik PDF retrieved from www.wu-wien.ac