Collocating Boat Forces and Cutter Operations Standardization Teams The excessive cost of travel for both the East and West Coast Boat Forces and Cutter Operations Standardization Teams (BFCO STAN) annually is 1.3 to 1.5 million dollars with a minimally manned team stationed at the National Motor Lifeboat School (NMLBS). Collocating BFCO STAN Teams has caused an excessive rise in the annual budget. In 2008 the West Coast team was dissolved due to difficulties in correspondence between the teams and the billets were slowly moved to Yorktown VA, where STAN Team is headquartered. By doing so several issues have surfaced such as increased travel costs, longer deployments, and a greater distance from the NMLBS. An example of the increased travel costs would be the recent …show more content…
Secondary impacts of increased operating costs are delays of newly reported personnel becoming qualified. Each deployment is authorized to take two unqualified members except when the budget is stretched thin. When this occurs the unqualified members are removed in order to conserve the budget. Therefore the delay in qualifications leads to longer deployments for the qualified members. Before the West Coast STAN Team was dissolved the geographic area of responsibility for each team was divided in half, North to South of the Great Lakes. By dividing the area of responsibility the amount of time that teams were deployed averaged a week less. Currently the average time a five to eight man team is deployed is three weeks. Spring and Summer are STAN Team’s busiest months and each team member has on average one week back in the office before deploying again, which creates a fatiguing op-tempo. Furthermore, dissemination of hot and new information lags behind when members are continuously deploying which creates a nonstandard team of inspectors. The West Woast STAN Team was located in close proximity to the NMLBS. In the past both the NMLBS and
Over time, transportation has shown to have an incredible impact on the United States. It has revealed to bring about economic and social changes in various ways. In the late eighteenth century ancient methods of traveling were still in use in America and it was often very slow. Americans were aware that if transportation advancement occurred, it would potentially increase foreign trade, increase land values as well as strengthen the American economy. In the mid 1800s it has been determined that transportation advancement has a drastic effect on our
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Ferry’s last argument was that of patriotism. Ferry was a patriot, a countryman if you will. He believed that his country was great but could be greater. This is why his last argument was on the defense of his country A country should be as self sufficient as possible when it comes to its national defense, and so to compete with the military and naval expansion of rival nations it would only be logical to make a move that would strengthen military forces. Ferry expressed a need for safe harbors, defenses, and supply centers for naval ships. Ferry uses an example of a war ship and talks about the fact that regardless of how perfect the war ship is designed that it cannot carry more than two week of coal. Ferry understood that it was an essential move for strengthening and extending the reach of
Of the three forms of transportation, rail has the highest fixed costs, motor carriers the greatest variable costs, and air transport, the greatest variable costs of service and logistics optimization. Starting with rail, the cost structure has the highest fixed cost components, driven by infrastructure and terminal costs. Rail is therefore the most difficult to negotiate a lower transportation cost for, as the fixed costs form an inflexible pricing structure for retail service providers. The quality of rail service varies significantly across nations and regions as well, leading to greater variability in costs when a shipment moves across national and regional boundaries. Given the highly fixed cost structure of rail systems, there is significant room for improvement from an efficiency standpoint. The use of containerization is continually adding to greater efficiencies to this mode of transport (Jennings, Holcomb, 1996).
Once railroads were built, shipping by them became increasingly popular. Shipping domestically became cheaper and quicker, which elevated the U.S. economy. In Document E, the cost to ship by wagon is recorded to be twenty times the cost by railroad. Furthermore, the article describes wagon shipping “ was $1.77, while by rail it was less than a tenth of that amount.” Before the invention of the Transcontinental Railroad, trade was limited to wagons being driven for days on end. Few people considered the drive, so the price was high to ship. Besides high prices, canals were
“In 1852 rail shipments from Cincinnati to New York City took from six to eight days, about a third of the time required for service via the canals, Lake Erie and the Hudson River.” (Bourne, p33) Many
In result of the new railroads “you can travel cheaply from place to place” (Document 9) Before the railroads, traveling was not very common. It was a large expense to travel but industrialization later made it a feasible cost. It was stated that it more money to ship a shipment out of Europe in the early 1800s. After the industrial revolution began, the prices dropped significantly. It was also proposed that “during the 1800s the amount of railroad tracks increased dramatically in Britain, the Continental Europe, and the United States” (Document 5).
Surely this was not the first time this came across the governments mind. In 1803 Ohio joined the union the federal government decided that they should help finance road construction, creating a national road from the Potomac River to the Ohio River was an idea Purposed by Albert Gallatin after being delayed numerous times the construction building of this road begun in 1818. When completed their were high tolls but despite that Conestoga wagons, private carriages also cattle’s were taken across the mountains and cost lower than ever to do so. Subsequent to this there steam powered shipping was expanding quickly. Robert Fulton helped make the steam boat come into a reality even if he did not invent it by 1816 river steamers were going up and down the Mississippi and Ohio River all the way to Pittsburgh being be to hold a greater quantity of cargos than what the flatboats, barges and more all combined together. The river steamers motivate the agricultural economy of the west and the south, contributing much easier access to the markets and allowing the eastern manufactures to send good over to the west. Although the steam boats and the roads are running on good progress there were gaps because when the Britain cut the blockade across the Atlantic the roads started to produce
After reading the Congressional Report, as a reader we get a better understanding of what truly angered the Americans. With all the foreign relationships in a twist, their “right to use the ocean”, was taken away. The nation was in tremendous fear due their men, ships and cargo being violated in the process of their passageways. Congressman Calhoun, backups the
Also recognized through collected case studies, assembling of cluster teams plays a crucial roles in the project teams distribution, such as mechanical, electrical, & plumbing engineering (MEP), structural, etc. This concept not only helps increase the organization and team management, also constitutes and develops a truly environment of interdependence, communication, and cooperation. Based on some healthcare projects, the cluster teams involve in both design and construction phases with the ability to set up the Target Design Value (TDV), another tool from Lean theory discussed later in this section, and strengthen IPD applications by integrating all participants in the decision-making and throughout the entire delivery process. Figure 7, for instance, gives a typical case of cluster groups observed from data collection part.
The fifties proved to be a difficult time for baseball. As America was busy changing baseball remained the same. The middle class began to move out of the city to the suburbs, away from the major league ball fields. Therefore, leaving behind low-income mostly black families, which did not bring much profit to the ballfields. The fields and parking lots were too small to bring any real profit to the teams as well, and many whites were too scared to venture into these neighborhoods to even watch a game.
First “ Gold-rushers slept on wooden berths, usually three men per bunk, on platforms that were stacked one above the other. Meals aboard ship were dreadful. Without refrigeration, the meats — salt pork and dried beef — rotted, the biscuits became moldy, and the beans were infested with bugs. Fresh produce spoiled and had to be thrown away.” (Seffer 9). With people coming down scurvy and other diseases many didn’t make it all the way to California. Second “At the beginning of the gold rush, the preferred ocean route was around Cape Horn. The trip, however, was brutal. Passengers broiled near the equator and froze near the Antarctic. Living quarters aboard ship were dirty, smelly, and crowded.” (Seffer 9). With the living quarters on the ships being so awful because of the poor conditions and lack of resources many passengers that were traveling by land complained about the ships faults. Lastly with thousands of people prepared and anxious to get to California, numerous ships were needed to take the argonauts but the broken-down old ships that had been left for years were patched up and sent to sea with argonauts crammed onto the ships. Having been put on ships that weren't well built many many people suffered from seasickness when bad storms rolled in. These are only some of the difficult times people had to go through when traveling by
A great deal of our raw materials came from America and therefore had to cross the Atlantic. In normal times this journey could
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The weight of many products made transportation across land extremely expensive, so often times traders would resort to sea as their cheapest form of transport. However, due to the lack of waterways, transport would still often end up having to be done by land. Transport costs controlled the size of cities, as well as the products that were traded.