Estudio logístico de distribución física internacional de transporte multimodal ecuatoriano para países Latinoamericanos.

Abstract

Among its priorities, Ecuador has to develop the transportation and logistics sector with various investment projects in the concession of deep-water ports, airports in main cities, river ports in the Amazon and construction of the metro. For this, the Logistics Study of physical distribution of Ecuadorian multimodal transport for Latin American countries was carried out, where indicators such as the characterization of the products exported in the multimodal system, the process of exporting goods in the multimodal system and multimodal logistics were analyzed. Ecuadorian, and led us to propose the objectives such as the identification of the items of Ecuadorian exports and imports to and from Latin American countries, Compare the rates by weight and volume of companies that offer multimodal service and the description of the export process. Multimodal transportation is the articulation between different modes of transportation, in order to carry out transshipment operations of materials and merchandise more quickly and efficiently. Within the methodological design, the inductive method was proposed, the level of descriptive research, with a qualitative approach using secondary sources and tools such as bibliographic and document analysis. For the year 2020, Ecuador carries out many exports in millions of USD in the areas of cocoa, natural flowers, canned fish, balsa, shrimp, banana to countries such as the United States, China, Russia, Colombia and Peru using a large multimodal transportation network. according to the Ecuadorian Association of Freight and Logistics Agencies. With this background, the proposal was proposed: Rail transport as a multimodal alternative between Latin American countries, which aims to propose a rail road integration criterion in the South Pacific alliance including the Mercosur and Central American countries to make a logistics service feasible. Physical distribution of Ecuadorian multimodal transportation for Latin American countries.