The purpose of this thesis is introduction of Icelantic Boards, a ski producing company. This thesis will also provide information on carrier possibilities for company's export overseas and useful Incoterms conditions. In the final part, there is a close look at the company's products, on import variants and finally there are recommendations for particular type of shipping overseas, as well as possibilities for increase of sales of their products on European market.

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The traditional air cargo supply chain is composed by the shippers, the freight forwarders and the airlines. The freight forwarders secure capacity with airlines in order to accommodate shippers' demand. They bid for capacity six to twelve months before the actual departure date of the aircraft, and confirm the needed capacity a few days before departure. We address the freight forwarders' problem of confirming needed capacity based on balancing the costs of ordering too much capacity versus ordering too little. We use a Markov decision process to model the problem. We show the value function is convex in the state variables for lead times of one and two periods. We present the structure of the optimal policy and show it is stationary. In addition we present solutions to the case with subcontracting options and order due dates. We also address the airlines' revenue management problem with respect to its cargo capacity available for free sale (after honoring committed capacity to freight forwarders), in particular the problems of (1) accepting/rejecting incoming bookings based on bid prices, and of (2) estimating the show-up rate (ratio of bookings handed in at departure over bookings on hand) with impact on overbooking. To address the lumpiness of demand, we split the cargo into two categories: small cargo, composed of mail and small packages, and large cargo, composed of the bulk of commercial cargo. The small cargo is approximated with the passenger arrival, and we propose a new algorithm to solve the traditional probabilistic nonlinear problem from the passenger side. The large cargo is solved using a dynamic program, which is decomposed at the leg level using a fare-prorating scheme. The solution from our new approach is shown via simulation to be superior to two approaches currently used: the first come first serve, and the deterministic linear program. The show-up rate is estimated using wavelets and we show that a discrete show-up rate is more suitable than the traditional Normal estimator used in practice. The new estimator results in considerable more potential revenue.

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The aim of this master's thesis is to analyse the project Zagreb Airport Cargo City. Project Zagreb Airport Cargo City deals with the building of the new cargo terminal at airport Zagreb Pleso. The theoretical part describes the country and characteristics of the transport sectors in the country, which aims mainly to cargo transport and its concern. The next part deals with detailed description of the whole project Zagreb Airport Cargo City. There are also mentioned statistics in this part, that are very important to introduce the whole project in the most comprehensive way, because there is not any similar project like this one. At the end of this part is mentioned the current situation of the project. Last chapter contains the practical part. There is a SWOT analysis of the whole project. Based on this analysis, the project is evaluated. As a part of the practical part are also the analysis of possibility of future development.

The main aim of this thesis was to provide a comprehensive overview of the international transport of commodities with regard to its nature, time and cost efficiency. As a commodity suitable for examination were selected cut flowers. Based on the analysis of modes of transport was partial objective to propose directions for transport of cut flowers in the air and road transport with regard to the nature of commodities, time and cost efficiency. Another objective was to map the centers of production and consumption of cut flowers. Under this objective has been paid great attention to the center of international trade in cut flowers Netherlands and trading on local exchanges.

The thesis deals with air cargo transport and its use by a chosen company. The theoretical part gives detailed information on air cargo transport and its providers. The practical part focuses on the use of air cargo transport by a specific company. It describes a system for orders processing and dispatching. The system is demonstrated on an example of a consignment transported by air to Bolivia. The possible improvements of the system are suggested. The practical part also analyses the transport of all consignments within the specific period. The data are used for introducing the company to several transport companies aiming to enter cooperation. The offers received from the transport companies are compared and evaluated.