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Purpose: The purpose of this article is to investigate the factors that encourage shipping lines to use port of Sohar …, in Oman. Some selected factors were used to assess to what extent it affects the port choice from shipping lines … companies' perspective. These factors include infrastructure, hinterland, connectivity and port's dues. Design …
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logistics park, and design proper scheme to meet the demand of port logistics park. Findings: Proposed an information … construction implementation plan using technology of the Internet of things which can be applied to port logistics park. Designed a …. Practical implications: The proposed construction program is particularly suitable for the northwest port logistics parks in …
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warehouse & port logistics operation model. Originality/value: Warehouse logistics business is a combination of warehousing … services and terminal services which is provided by port logistics through the existing port infrastructure on the basis of a … port. The newly proposed method can help to optimize logistics operation model for warehouse & port enterprises effectively …
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Purpose: In the world today there are thousands of port facilities of different types and sizes, competing to capture … some market share of freight by sea, mainly. This article aims to determine the type of port and the most common size, in … worldwide, which manage 90% of the containerized port loading. Then you can find out the legal status of the companies that …
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Purpose: Researchers have been actively investigating various issues concerning food safety and halal food in the supply chain. The ultimate goal is to provide guarantees for quality and conformance regarding food standards and demanding expectation from the consumers. We review a set of...
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Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to develop and framework supply chain characteristics and risk mitigation strategies in the context of biodiesel downstream supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: This study employs an expert interview-based approach as a qualitative approach with a...
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate management decisions via option contracts in a two-stage supply chain in which a fresh produce supplier sells to a retailer, considering the circulation loss of the fresh produce. Design/methodology/approach: Authors propose a Stackelberg...
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Purpose: Provide a coordination strategy using multiple common replenishment epochs (MCRE) for a single-supplier multi-retailer supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: The demand of a product occurs only with a group of heterogeneous and independent retailers with constant rates, whereas all...
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Purpose: This paper examines the current methodologies and approaches developed to estimate carbon footprint in supply chains and the studies existing in the literature review about the application of these methodologies and other new approaches proposed by some authors....
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Purpose: This paper identifies collaborative management of supply chain in an IT environment as the object of study. It offers discussion on the current situation and future development of supply chain management, the basic theories of supply chain management, and the comparison between the...
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