Desafios logísticos da exportação de amêndoas de castanhas de caju: um estudo de caso da Empresa Iracema Castanhas de Caju

Abstract

The international logistics is a branch of the logistics business, which deals with the relationship of storage, transportation and management of information exchanges between countries. It is the branch of government that deserves to guarantee companies, substantial cost reductions, since it seeks to develop and refine techniques necessary for the preservation and handling of goods. Transportation is the main branch of logistics, since it focuses on the major studies related to the topic. Producers of cashew nuts, the example of the researched company, invest in outsourced transport, which is a way to have your product well managed and makes it competitive. In the present study sought to describe the production process, the mode of transport and storage with special focus on the choice and the types of containers used for this purpose, as a central and decisive for the proper storage and safety in maintaining the quality of the product transported and achieving customer satisfaction in the place and time of delivery of the product, namely, the cashewnut. The study aimed to identify the challenges facing Iracema Cashew Nuts to hold the load and maintain the quality use of containers via different modes of transport to their final destination. Through the application and analysis of an interview instrument with the industry's # studied company can ratify the importance of this place of logistics as well as the challenges faced by the company in the storage and transport of perishable goods. You can identify which functions as a logistics company's differential, with respect to maintaining quality and competitiveness, and that the container appears as a central element in the process of storing and transporting described, which can be appropriated and taken into account for the use or adaptation in other industries, like food and light industry.