DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED CARGO TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Undergraduate
ABSTRACT
This project was out of the necessity to address the inherent problems encountered by members of staff of super maritime shipping Agency and their customers.
The manual process involved in the management of cargo were critical examined and the flows noted. The software so designed offers to a great extent, the solutions to these problems. The project went further to ret the different techniques used in implementing the newly design software in order to facilitate a broader understanding of the design software by any user.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The management of Cargo in Nigeria has over the years
attracted poor patronage as a result of errors inherent in the system. It
is no longer a new thing that loss of customers’ goods is now the order of the
day, the reasons are not far-fetched. Due to this manual procedure
involved in Cargo management, clients have no other option than to be at the
mercy of these error prone procedures. Members of staff of supper maritime
one to the registered shipping agencies and a subsidiary of Nigerian ports plc
cannot provide their goods that is the nature of the method used in calculating
the tonnage to know the amount of money to pay as cargo fees. The method of information storage in
the company is poor. This limits the number of official documents
accessible by the customers because the system is not capable of managing old
items of information which could be of use to be customer of anytime. There is little or no security
control system where the customers’ goods, document and classified information
of the customer could be safe guarded from unauthorized access.
AIMS AND
OBJECTIVES The aims and objectives of this study is to design and
implement a computerized cargo transportation management system that will among
other thing, make provision for a detailed breakdown of the customers weight of
the goods / Cargo, quick retrieval and display of information pertaining to the
client. Provisions is also made to check
fraud and other criminal acts carried out by both parties involved in the
transaction and this lead to security and control. Also another aim of
this study is to provide a system that will manage the customer’s document from
the port of loading to the port of discharge with his on ground there will be
no conflict between the port of loading and port of discharge.