The purpose of this paper is to explain the onshore satisfaction of cruise passengers, in the port of call of Cartagena de Indias.
To carry out a comprehensive survey on 3PL practices in India and to establish the impact of usage of third party logistics services on business results
The purpose of this paper is to present a systemic analysis of the complex interaction of factors affecting the reverse logistics (RL) processes in a pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC).
The primary objective of this paper is to show how mathematical modeling can be for solving a third party logistics (3PL) allocation problem.
The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for forecasting product returns to the company for recycling in terms of quantity and time.
CAPARO India Ltd., a leading player in the automotive components industry in India, has multiple logistics providers for export-import logistics at its five manufacturing locations in north India. Dealing with multiple logistics provider restricts negotiation power, service commitments, customer satisfaction and leads to higher transportation cost and time delays due to multiple points of conta…
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has emerged as the world’s major energy and trade route. The IOR littorals are concerned about the vulnerabilities in the region due to various nontraditional maritime security threats such as piracy, maritime terrorism, climate change, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, illegal immigration, and smuggling of arms and drugs. This paper analyses…
Workplace safety continues to be an area of concern in the maritime industry due to the international nature of the operations. The effectiveness of extensive legislation to manage shipboard safety remains in doubt. The focus must therefore shift towards the human element - seafarers and their perceptions of safety. The study aims to understand the alignment that exists between safety culture a…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assist ocean container carriers in devising effective marketing strategies to attract and retain Indian shippers by letting them understand the list of criteria Indian shippers use in the carrier selection decisions and also the amount of importance they assign to each criterion during such decisions. Design/methodology/approach – To explore th…
Indian dry ports (inland cargo-consolidation and distribution centres) are expected to play a pivotal role in connecting the North Indian heartland with the gateway seaports of Mundra, JNPT and Chennai. However, in this process, dry ports contribute considerably to the vexing problem of atmospheric pollution because of the ensuing road and rail transportation. There is a considerable body of re…
India will be releasing its GDP figures this week and we expect to see a gradual recovery following the demonetisation shock. The Bank of Korea (BoK) will be holding its monetary policy meeting, and we expect the central bank to maintain its monetary policy stance in a bid to provide stability as tensions on the Korean peninsula remain high. Lastly, we expect headline inflation in Thailand to b…
The purpose of this paper is to use a conceptual model from literature for designing value recovery (VR) networks for three categories of post‐consumer product returns.
The paper aims to begin with a brief review of early banking and finance methods, early logistics routes through Europe, and message delivery modes in medieval China, the paper then proposes to move on to a comparative study of modern logistics modes in the European Union and in India – in particular the ports of Le Havre (France) and Mangalore (Karnataka).
Indian Railways being sole government organization for infrastructure, operations and regulatory functions entered for competition in the container segment in January 2006 through private-public participation for customer-centric competitiveness to break monopolistic control of Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) introducing limited licensing policy. The purpose of this research work is to …