Students are required to write an individual report for the senior management team, analysing the information and proposing solutions to the questions set regarding the case study. To satisfy the assessment criteria, students are expected to demonstrate depth of analysis, breadth of reading and critical discussion.

The questions that you need to answer are:

$1.$ Calculate the average percentage of the volume$-$wise filling rate of your trucks, considering that the type of trucks used for the FTL$,$ LTL and consolidated transport is the mega trailer with dimensions of $13\mathrm{.}6$m $($L$)$ x $2\mathrm{.}45$m $($W$)$ x$3$m $($H$)$ and a capacity of $90$m$3$ of cargo volume.

$2.$ What types of solutions do you suggest for improving the filling rate of the trucks?

$3.$ Assuming that for every kilometre of transportation, the amount of CO$2$ emissions for the empty mega trailer truck is $0\mathrm{.}77$kg$/$km and for the full truck is $1\mathrm{.}10$ kg$/$km$,$ how much are your CO$2$ emissions savings by implementing your suggested improvement measures? You can assume a linear relation between the filling rate of the truck and the amount of emission generate by it in terms of kilograms.

$4.$ How much will the company save in terms of transportation cost by implementing your suggested improvement measures for the shipments in the given time? See Table $2$ for pricing details and Appendix $1$ for a guide to pricing.

$5.$ Critically discuss and evaluate current and future logistics and transport issues, in the context of the globalisation of the economy.

When undertaking an assignment which specifies a $$critical discussion, analysis or critical evaluation$,$ you are expected to collect $($and use$)$ different sources of information from both academic text books and journal papers, to complete the assignment. It is important that you do not take all your information from one source as it is likely to be biased. Please note that you are expected to support all of your answers to the above questions with information, theories, etc from academic sources where appropriate.

subject logistics the name of case study is $$ "Minerva Gardening Equipment"