This paper develops an economic assessment of a multimodal transport network for single pallets. A shipment-size choice model is estimated to calculate the shippers’ reactions and their economic benefits from that transport network. In the model, the major factor influencing logistics decisions—the balance between warehouse and storage cost—is explicitly taken into account. The functional form ...

between the first origin and the last destination. Many shipments travel by longer, less direct routes. Most available data on commodity shipments within a single country identify the first origins and the last destinations but not any transshipment points along the way. The Commercial Vehicle Survey, provided by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Canada, proved to have particularly use...

This study formulates a two-objective model by individually minimizing shipping costs and inventory costs to decide whether to route a shipment through a hub or directly to its destination. First, shipping and inventory cost functions are formulated for a multi-port calling route. Shipping costs include capital and operating cost, fuel cost and port charge, while inventory costs include waiting...

International wildlife crime is burgeoning in this climate of global trade. We contend that the most effective way to contain this illegal trade is to determine where the wildlife is being removed. This allows authorities to direct law enforcement to poaching hot spots, potentially stops trade before the wildlife is actually killed, prevents countries from denying their poaching problems at hom...

Article history: Received 12 April 2010 Received in revised form 9 October 2010 Accepted 12 November 2010 Available online 23 December 2010

At the micro perspectives, many studies have identified total shipment quantity, wholesale price at previous day, national holiday effect, as the variables affecting the wholesale price level of stored apple. However, the report of production volume effect at a given year on wholesale price level from the point of macro perspectives in practice, especially in agricultural industry, has been rel...

This paper discusses how a vendor manages multiple products within its multiple non-identical retailers operating under a vendor managed inventory (VMI) contract that allows unequal shipment frequencies to the retailers. The vendor replenishment cycle for each product is taken to be an integer multiple of the retailer replenishment cycle where vendor is penalized for exceeding the upper stock l...

In brief Calculating carbon emissions for less than truckload (LTL) is more challenging than for other modes of transportation. Each LTL truck combines a wide mix of freight from many shippers, with varying origin-destination pairs. Without visibility to the details about individual shipments on that truck, accurate carbon emission estimates at the shipment level can be difficult to obtain. Gra...

All insect pest control programmes currently releasing sterile insects use radioisotope irradiators using either 60 Cobalt or 137 Caesium for gamma sterilization. This technology has proven to be extremely reliable for this purpose. However, the current situation regarding the growing complexities of the transboundary shipment of radioiso-topes and the fear of terrorism (in particular of a 'dir...