Abstract: Purpose – This paper aims to explore the coordination mechanism of cost sharing for green food production and marketing between a food producer and a supplier who both contribute to sales of green food. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first develops demand functions for both a food supplier and a producer, considering their influence on food green degree and associated c…
In this paper, we study the empty container inventory sharing and coordination problem in intermodal transport. We focus on dry ports in intermodal transport to raise the coordination issue in empty container management. We consider an intermodal transport system composed of one railway transport firm at a dry port and one liner firm at a seaport. First, we characterize the optimal delivery pol…