The estimate of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is that more than 80 percent or close to 8 million tons in 2007, of world freight is transported by sea. Most, if not all, freight transport moves from the producer to the consumer through logistic processes thereby passing a...

An analysis of the freight costs of Russian foreign trade cargos shows that the quality characteristics of Russia's seaports have a strong bearing on the sea freight routing – seaports with low-quality infrastructure are apt to lose the competition. Not only Russia's economic policy in the...

To address the need for a better understanding of cooperation, coordination and competition among transportation modes identified by various research studies, this paper sets out to analyze port-railroad relations of cooperation and coordination in the Brazilian case and the possible existence...