DTIC ADA264488: Container Management During Desert Shield/Storm pdf

DTIC ADA264488: Container Management During Desert Shield/Storm

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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

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 4/15/1993
• Year: 1993
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, Hall, Clark, ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, *LOGISTICS SUPPORT, *SHIPPING CONTAINERS, TRANSPORTATION, SHIPS, INDUSTRIES, COMMERCE, LESSONS LEARNED, SHIPPING, OPENINGS, CARGO HANDLING, ACCOUNTING, EFFICIENCY, TIME, CONTAINERS, OCEANS, ARMY OPERATIONS

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