For your Group Assignment, you will play the roles of a Freight Forwarder and a materials and distribution manager for Apotex Pharmaceuticals in Toronto. Your team is responsible for all transportation, distribution, materials, and purchasing for your firm.

Your role is the materials and distribution manager for Apotex Pharmaceuticals in Toronto. You are responsible for all transportation, distribution, materials, and purchasing for that firm. Your freight forwarder is GCA (Global Canadian Agents), and Apotex can take care of the

delivery to CGA at the airport terminal using their own trucks.

Your companies have been hired to deliver aid to the civil war zone of Tigray, Ethiopia, supplying emergency pharmaceuticals to Medicin sans Frontiere in that country. The United Nations has brokered a fragile peace plan, and the blockade of Tigray and risks to air traffic will be

lifted for a one-week period. Your task i o take this opportunity to deliver 4.8 cubic meters of materials weighing 1.2 metric tonnes and having a value of $4,500,000.00. You are responsible for deciding all logistics necessary to deliver the goods to the hospital in

You have, so far, found the best two choices to get the cargo close to the destination, but you will need to recommend the best choice and the method of delivery to the final destination, Mik'ele, the. Regional capital of Tigray.

Alternative 1

Toronto - New York - Eritrea

(Air freight, UPS via La Guardia Airport)

Freight rates:

Toronto - New York by express truck, @

CAD$24.00/100 lb.

LGA-ASM: +500 kg - US $12.32/kg

Exchange rate: US $1.00= CAN $1.35

EUR 1 = CAN $1.50

Alternative 2

Toronto - Paris - Cairo

(Own consolidation to Paris, then your

French agent's consolidation to Cairo)

Freight rates:

YUL - CDG: +300 kg - CAN $3.75

CDG-CAI: +500 kg - EUR 7.98

In teams of two, Apotex, Freight Forwarder, and the customer (Medicin sans Frontiere) decide on the following:

1. Calculate the chargeable weights and freight charges for both alternatives. (5 marks)

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2. Conduct a CREEEPSS risk analysis for conducting such a delivery to Mik'ele, Tigray. Use this criteria and the above freight costs to recommend a complete route into Mik'ele (3 marks)

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3. Decide the most appropriate mode(s) and routes for the final delivery (from Cairo or Asmara) to the hospital in Mik'ele. Outline the finalized complete route on appropriate maps (door to door). (3 marks)

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4. Recommend the Incoterms for Apotex to use in this case, given the available information on your customer. Completely justify your decision. marks)

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5. Outline the role the freight forwarder will play in the transaction and outline all the necessary shipping documentation. (3 marks)

Group Assignment Due Module 12

Professionalism, style, organization and format (3 marks)