Based on the following situation, in case study 2

Rose purchases 100 cartons of confectionary from Italy with a total weight of 20,480kg 50,196lbs. Rose asks her friend to deliver the shipment from Port of Gioia Tauro, Italy to Port Klang Malaysia. The total transit time for the ocean freight movement by vessel is 49 days. During the customs clearance process, Rose is having a problem with import documents so it takes 7 days for her agent to clear the shipment from the port (Standard free port time is only 5 days). Once the shipment is cleared from Port Klang it is delivered to a warehouse located at Nilai inland port, Negeri Sembilan before it is delivered to Johor Bahru the warehouse destination of the delivery. She is then requesting the container to be unloaded on the same day it reached the warehouse to be delivered directly to her 10 customers around Johor Bharu.

Questions:

1. Based on the above situation, discuss the type of shipping arrangement from the Port of Gioia Tauro, Italy to Port Klang Malaysia? (15 Marks)

2. After the problem encountered by Rose during the port clearance, state the additional cost that Rose needs to bear and why? (5 Marks)

3. What is the potential multimodal choice that is available for the respective transit arrangement in the case study? ( 5 Marks)

4. What is the best distribution approach under the warehouse service to fulfill Rose requirement. Justify your answer.(15 Marks)