Principles of optimization of international multimodal transportation at the present stage of development of the global economic system
Abstract. The work presents the main principles and areas of interaction between the logistics of international multimodal transportation and other basic types of logistics, such as production logistics, military logistics, logistics of social organizations, logistics of innovative infrastructure facilities of the economy. The key potential contradictions between these areas of logistics activity are highlighted. The risks of the activities of companies in the field of international multimodal transportation are systematized, including several groups: risks of using individual modes of transport; modified for the sub-sector of international multimodal transportation; general risks of entrepreneurial activity (operational, financial, commercial, personnel, digital-ization risk); specific risks for this area of international contracts, including those associated with the complexity of determining the optimal route for transporting goods through several countries, the increased complexity of multi-stage international transport management, additional risks of bad faith fulfillment of obligations by foreign partners.
Keywords: multimodal transportation, transport service, risk, logistics, paradigm, international management.
Highlights:
- optimization of the company`s activities in the field of international multimodal transportation is a coordinated process of multi-criteria optimization of cargo transportation itself, taking into account the qualitative proportions of the development of foreign transport service markets, optimization of sources of financingthe development of a business entity, includingthe possibility of attractingfinancial and investment resources in foreign and virtual capital markets, balancing financial and economic activity indicators, optimizing business relations with national and foreign strategic partners and local institutional support for the company`s functioning;
- principles are proposed for ensuring the efficiency of a company`s activities in the field of international multimodal transportation, such as the principle of focusingon implementing international multimodal transportation primarily on the territory of friendly or neutral states; the principle of preferential focus on forming long-term relationships with foreign partners; the principle of multi-faceted and multi-criteria optimization of a company`s activities in the field of international multimodal transportation; the principle of congruence of strategy and tactics of managing a company in the field of international multimodal transportation; the principle of balanced business processes; the principle of systematic accounting of the statics and dynamics of formal and informal institutions that influence international multimodal freight transportation; principles of scientifically based risk management and comprehensive digitalization of the company in the field of international multimodal freight transportation.
Andrey V. Severilov - A7 Holding JSC, Moscow, Russia