E-commerce is a typical form of retail digitalization that introduces online uncertainty and product returns. To decrease the negative influence of online uncertainty, the largest Chinese e-commerce company, the Alibaba Group, invited an insurance company to develop return-freight insurance...

The coastal intermodal cargo-container joint supply chain is a complicated system with several stakeholders and a few challenging decision-making concerns, such as the laden container acceptance and routing problem, the empty container relocation problem, and the water transportation services...