Open AccessPRODUCTION AMALGAMATION'S “BELARUSKALI” POTASH DELIVERY SYSTEM ANALYSIS FROM LOGISTIC POSITIONS
Author(s) -
М. М. Колос
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
transport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1648-4142
pISSN - 1648-3480
DOI - 10.3846/16484142.2006.9638081
Subject(s) - potash , transshipment (information security) , production (economics) , commodity , logistic regression , production system (computer science) , business , operations management , operations research , computer science , environmental economics , engineering , economics , finance , microeconomics , fertilizer , chemistry , organic chemistry , machine learning
Belarus is one of the largest manufacturers of potash fertilizers. Geographical remoteness from commodity markets and absence of its own exit to sea require transshipment of production in foreign seaports. In this article, the author is analyzing, deriving from logistic considerations, according to which principles of such delivery system should be designed, what can be the criterion of its efficiency, how volumes of cargo transported through various channels influence self‐organizing capacity of the system as a whole, and what is the synergetic effect on the logistic system. The questions of designing logistic systems considered in this article on the example of potash fertilizers are, in many respects, common to all Byelorussian exporters.