In all the cases indicate the local time and GMT

Exercises 1 - A customer asked a freight forwarder when the cargo will arrive in Los

Angeles if the cargo is ready as follow:

Origin City: Paris

Time to Pick Up March 1st, 2021 10:00 AM, Paris time.

Cargo: Full Container

Time to Origin Port: 4 hours by truck, Le Havre

Navigation Time, 9 days Plus delays

Shipping Mode: by ship using Panama Channel - 4 hours of delay in the Panama

Channel

2 - A customer asked a freight forwarder when the cargo will arrive at Hong Kong

Port if the cargo is ready as follow:

Origin City: New York

Time to Pick Up: February 18th, 2021 10:00 AM, New York time.

Cargo: 8 Full Container

Time to Origin Port: 2 hours by truck, Port of New York

Navigation Time, 30 days Plus delays

Shipping Mode: by ship using Suez Channel - 14 hours of delay in the Suez Channel

3 - A customer asked a freight forwarder when the cargo will arrive at Toronto if

the cargo is ready as follow:

Origin City: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Time to Pick Up: July 18th, 2021 10:00 AM, Buenos Aires time

Cargo: The cargo are Blueberries in 1-pint cases, in boxes of 24 cases. The cargo is

very perishable and must be in the destination country in less than 24 hors.

Time to Origin Port: 1.5 hours to the international airport, shipped at the flight at 11:00

PM air Canada flight direct to Toronto (Look for the time of flight from Buenos Aires to

Toronto, it is around 9 hs)

Shipping delays: the time from the arrival of cargo to the international airport until the

flight takes off.

Shipping Mode: by direct flight to Pearson Airport

4 - A customer asked a freight forwarder when the cargo will arrive at Rome if the

cargo is ready as follow:

Origin City: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Time to Pick Up: November 30th, 2021 10:00 AM, Buenos Aires time

Cargo: The cargo is Beef meat boxes of 20 kilograms each one. The total shipment is

10 boxes to the Marriott Hotel Villa Borgesse. The cargo is perishable without

refrigeration. The product is required to prepare Christmas and new year dinners at the

hotel.

Time to Origin Port: 1.5 hours to the international airport, shipped at the flight at 4:00

PM Alitalia flight direct to Rome (Look for the time of flight from Buenos Aires to Rome -

Fiumicino)

Shipping delays: the time from the arrival of cargo to the international airport until the

flight takes off if cargo is sent via cargo air transportation.

If the shipping is by Ship, there is direct shipping to Rome the same day at 6:00 PM,

and there is no delay in consolidating in a refrigerated container.

Time to Destination: If it is done by cargo shipping is 10 days plus 2 hours to clear

custom and time to transport to the hotel. If it is by Air cargo is the time of the flight plus

the same 2 hours to the hotel.

Shipping Mode: You need to decide which shipping you will use and justify. Considering

that Air cargo will Cost 6 times the Shipping freight.

just calculate the arrivel time( local and Gmt) of shipment as per world time zone.