The operation of transportation determines the efficiency of moving products. The progress in techniques and management principles improves the moving load, delivery speed, service quality, operation costs, the usage of facilities and energy saving. Transportation takes a crucial part in the...

In this study, whether the number of ships departing and arriving in Turkish ports has effect on industrial production index and total trade (the sum of import and export) was investigated by regression analysis between 2004-2010 years. According to the results obtained, the increase of the...

Transportation of different kinds of products to different locations is an activity that requires specialization. From this point of view, logistics industry plays a vital role in providing efficiency in economic activities. When logistics activities, which already have a complex structure, are...

This study measures the extent of restrictions on trade in logistics services in the ASEAN+6 economies by constructing a logistics regulatory restrictiveness index for each economy that quantifies the extent of government regulations faced by logistics service providers. This is the first study...

Integrated logistics inside industrial districts, in spite of its potential, still faces infrastructural and cultural barriers. The article analyses fourteen cases of logistic innovation within industrial district firms, highlighting both the current status and intervention areas for building up...

We investigate the strategic impact of flexible delivery frequencies on the competition of logistics service providers (LSPs) in a supply chain. LSPs compete for customers who choose an exclusive service provider based on their individual preference, prices and inventory costs. The service...

The Indian logistics industry is developing rapidly, with the interplay of changing government policies, infrastructure, and change in technologies; this defines that Indian logistics industry can able to satisfy its customers apart from its various challenges with better coordination across...

For logistics service providers, how to meet the customers’ logistics service and maintain the profit simultaneously, and also coordinate the environmental protection practices to voluntary reduced the carbon dioxide emission will be very important environmental management issue. The...

The purpose of this paper is to study factors that affecting decision to choose logistics transportation system in Thai Automotive Service Parts Industry. The study identified contexts where sourcing is made based on transaction cost economics theory (TCE), the resource-based view (RBV), core...

One of the significant challenges to achieveing the Green Supply Chain Management objectives is the ecological footprint associated with several logistics operations. In this study, we examine the impact of countries' logistics performance on environmental quality. For this purpose, the study...