You and your friends are setting up a new burger restaurant in Singapore. The burger restaurant will only use fresh and organic products and will serve standard dishes as well as seasonal dishes. The major providers of the fresh products are the organic farms in Penang, Malaysia.

(a) Demonstrate the strengths and limitations of three (3) possible transport modes (including intermodal transport) to deliver your organic product from Penang to Singapore.

(12 marks)

Apply an optimal transport mode for daily distributing your organic products from Penang to Singapore. Your answer should connect with the characteristics of the products.

(5 marks)

(b) In order to mitigate the in-transit risks, your transporter introduced the blockchain technology to improve the visibility. What is the core concept of blockchain which makes the information of cross-border transport safer and more secure?

(8 marks)