DETERMINANTS OF MODAL CHOICE FOR FREIGHT TRANSPORT: CONSEQUENCES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHORT-SEA SHIPPING BETWEEN SPAIN AND EUROPE María Feo-Valero a‚ Leandro García-Menéndez a‚ Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso b and Eva María Pérez-García a a Instituto de Economía Internacional. Universidad de Valencia. Spain b Instituto de Economía Internacional. Universidad Jaume I. Spain ABSTRACTi This paper presents a freight transport demand function consistent with the economic theory of modal choice in a
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a. They are organizations (formerly called "middlemen") in the middle of a series of organizations that join together to help distribute goods. b. A CHANNEL OF DISTRIBUTION is the whole series of marketing intermediaries who join together to transport and store goods in their path from producers to consumers. c. A WHOLESALER is a marketing intermediary that sells to other organizations. d. A RETAILER is an organization that sells to ultimate consumers. 2. CHANNELS OF DISTRIBUTION enhance communication
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inherent nature of supply chain strategies and the possibility to define them from an operative viewpoint 14 5 Literature on decision models in SCM 15 6 18 7 The book 18 7.1 Physical flows 20 7.2 The transportation system 21 7.2.1 Transport modes and their characteristics 21 7.3 Physical Nature of the Product 21 7.4 Channels of Distribution 22 7.4.1 Distribution Channels and Their Types 22 7.4.2 Physical Distribution Channel 22 7.4.3 Warehousing and Storage 22 7.4
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port in the world‚ are rewarded to Singapore Port. The port is the world’s busiest port in terms of shipping tonnage handled‚ with 1.15 billion gross tons (GT) handled in 2005. In terms of cargo tonnage‚ Singapore is behind Shanghai with 423 million freight tons handled. The port retains its position as the world’s busiest hub for transshipment traffic in 2005‚ and is also the world’s 2 biggest bunkering hub‚ with 25 million tons sold in the same year. Since Singapore’s full independence in 1965
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Transportation Logistics and Economic Decline: Politics‚ Infrastructure and the Recession Final Project Ricky Dartez – 4171437 TLMT498‚ Summer 2012 Dr. Ernest L. Hughes October 28‚ 2012 Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………….3 Introduction…………………………………………….……………….………………………….4 The Scope of Logistics’ Economic Impact..…...………………………….……………………….5 The Economy of Logistics: Macro and Micro Perspectives…………….…………………………8 Impacts of the Great Recession………………………………………………………………
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Innovation is a primary concern of industry and logistics services are constantly looking for ways to innovate in order to gain competitive advantage revolutionary. Green innovations can have a major impact in reducing the environmental burden of this industry particularly in terms of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The collaborations can also engage with industry and play a role by providing the right environment for companies to innovate. As a result of the global warm
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Groupe Eurotunnel History Early projects 1802 In 1802‚ French mining engineer Albert Mathieu-Favier put forward the first ever design for a cross-Channel fixed link based on the principle of a bored two-level tunnel: the top one‚ paved and lit by oil lamps‚ to be used by horse-drawn stagecoaches ; the bottom one would be used for groundwater flows. 1803 In 1803‚ the Englishman Henry Mottray unveils another project for a cross-Channel fixed link: a submerged tunnel made of prefabricated
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and most crucial part of the freight logistics chain that delivers goods to each and every South African. Every day Transnet delivers thousands of tons of goods around South Africa‚ through its pipelines and both to and from its ports. It moves that cargo on to ships for export while it unloads goods from overseas. Transnet is fully owned by the South African government but operates as a corporate entity aimed at both supporting and contributing to the country’s freight logistics network. It aims
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of maritime circulation. The notion of maritime transportation rests on the existence of regular itineraries‚ better known as maritime routes. Maritime routes. Corridors of a few kilometers in width trying to avoid the discontinuities of land transport by linking ports‚ the main elements of the maritime / land interface. Maritime routes are a function of obligatory points of
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