Background: The operational roles of ports are deeply intertwined with the development of their surrounding hinterlands, indicating that their relationship is mutually dependent and interactive. Moreover, the growth of a port positively influences the development of its hinterland, stimulating...

Freight Villages (FV) are important nodes in supply chains and can be seen as industrial and trade zones with good connections to transport networks, such as road, rail and air, offering basic logistics services, such as warehousing and transshipment, as well as further complimentary services...

Urban logistics are fundamental to city life. However, freight transport is responsible for around half of local air pollutants in cities and generates congestion and other emissions. Moreover, urban logistics involves more than just e-commerce. Recent trends in goods distribution, reverse...

Reasonable layout of logistics centers in the ASEAN countries has important practical significance for improving logistics network efficiency and reducing logistics transportation costs. This paper based on the current status of the ASEAN logistics network and the characteristics of the...

Purpose: A wide range of customer relationships, services and organizational interfaces characterizes inland intermodal terminals, which are hubs of combined transport. The purposes of this paper are twofold. The first is to highlight challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) at the...

The purpose of this article is to offer a literature review on the development and classification of inland terminals, later defined as “dry ports”. The aim of the paper is to analyze the extant literature on dry ports focusing on their concept, classification, function and technological...

The object of research is the risk of tearing of integration ties between the participants arising in the projects of creation of transport and logistics centers. The specific features of the concept of "integration project risks" are defined, which include the risks that may affect the...

This paper investigates the design and operation of an intermodal terminal for Underground Freight Transportation (UFT) system. UFT is considered as a new mode of autonomous freight transportation that uses pipelines for transporting freight between two intermodal terminals. The load size and...

This paper introduces a new mixed integer model to provide efficient distribution plans to route a set of inbound/outbound heterogeneous vehicles in the crossdocking systems that are used to transfer different types of commodities from a manufacturing plant to retail warehouses with allowed...

Connotations and features of "Yiwu Business Circle" -- "Yiwu Business Circle" division of labor collaboration network -- Formation path and mechanism of "Yiwu Business Circle" -- "Yiwu Business Circle" development trend and strategies -- Construction of "Yiwu Business Circle" and innovative...

In general manner; Turkey and Germany are quite unlike countries in terms of transportation infrastructure and logitics facilities. Many reasons, most of them ground historical reasons, could be regarded such as; geographical location, industrial history, economic. For whatever reason might be; in...

Ports located in the Portuguese west coast have been collectively defined as the 'Portuguese Range', constituting a multi-port gateway system integrated within the broader context of an already well-established traditional maritime region. The aim of this paper is to identify how the Portuguese...

Rail intermodal logistics, the movement of containerized cargo from origin to destination where a portion of the journey takes place on rail, have gained significance in North America over the past 10 to 15 years based on cost and operational efficiency. In China, however, the story has thus far...