Background: Brazil is one of the largest consumers of fertilizers and is highly dependent on the international market to meet its demand for agricultural production inputs. The complexity of the fertilizer supply chain motivated us to carry out this study on redesigning the fertilizer logistics...

The frequent occurrence of cargo theft in Brazil has considerably affected the highway transport mode. The utilization of these insurance have some relation with characteristics of transport companies (carriers), as well with the kind of service they sell. The main goal of this paper is to...