The Benefit Analysis of Applying ESCM to Export Procedures of Air Cargo

• Main Authors: Teng Wei Wang, 王騰緯
• Other Authors: 汪進財
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s5r77v

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 交通運輸研究所 === 92 === In view of a great deal of procedures and phone calls by manpower on air cargo, the U.S. FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has developed ESCM (Electronic Supply Chain Manifest) to replace tedious manual work by e-documents. The benefit of using ESCM was estimated about 1.5 to 3.5 U.S. dollars per transaction. In handling air cargo, participants must take account of causes of duties of transport and custom operations. Hence, a variety of paper-work and documents resulted from cargo-handling are inevitable. Currently approximately seventy percent of data are repeated. In addition, most of the procedures of document-making and document-delivering are also manually implemented. As a consequence, it adds costs to related parties and results in inefficiency of air cargo handling. As far as all the participants are concerned, benefit is one of important factors in handling air cargo. Therefore the focus of this research will be on applying ESCM to air cargo export procedures and the related benefit which could be brought up. After taking activities of four kinds of participants into analysis with IDEF0, the benefit of adopting ESCM for each party per transaction of air cargo in the case studied could be stated as the follows: NT＄546 per transaction for the forwarder, NT＄66 per transaction for the air carrier, NT 6.26 per transaction for air cargo terminal, NT 3.94 for the Customs. The research result provides a reference of cost-benefit analysis in applying related technology like ESCM in the future.