Logistics Performances of Gulf Cooperation Council’s Countries in Global Supply Chains

Challenges of Heavy Load Logistics in Global Maritime Supply Chains

Travel Medicine in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Book Review of Handbook of Global Logistics Transportation in International Supply Chains

This volume is a collection of commissioned contributions, edited by James H Bookbinder, to follow up on a special issue of the journal Transportation Research E, edited by the same editor, which focused on Global Logistics. One of the goals of this volume is to have perspectives of logistics researchers in different geographic areas. Part I consists of four chapters. The first chapter by Chen ...

Effects of Coordination Policies on Logistics Performance in Supply Chains

Facing global competition firms are redesigning their supply chains. Logistics activities have a particular importance where production activities are both remarkably diffused or concentrated. The coordination of transport demand implies not only to reduce costs, but also to respond promptly to final market. In the paper, the use of an enterprise input-output model to analyse logistics flows is...

Integration of Logistics Network in Local Food Supply Chains

The demand for locally produced food is increasing as global food supply system has considerably affected the confidence of consumers by increasing tonne-kilometres, food safety risk, environmental impact, and disconnecting local food producers and consumers. However, local food suppliers are not in the position to compete with large scale food supply systems due to high logistics costs. The ov...