Concerning the implementation of marketing philosophies and policies in shipping companies no extensive research has been made up to now. This article presents the application of marketing philosophies and policies to the companies, which are activated in merchant (tramp and liner) and passenger shipping. The emphasis is given to the merchant shipping companies due to the fact that the passenge...

THE AUTHOR calls this the most serious of a group of cattle maladies that are commonly associated with the hardships and hazards of shipping—that is, the handling, neglect, or exposure of animals in transit or shortly afterward. It is an infectious disease which often terminates in death. The losses from shipping fever can be greatly reduced by careful management in shipping. Vaccination with b...

Shipping policies allow for deciding whether a query should be executed at the server, the client or distributed among these two. Given the limitations of public SPARQL endpoints, selecting appropriate shipping plans is crucial for successful query executions without harming the endpoint performance. We present PLANET, a query plan visualizer for shipping strategies against a single SPARQL endp...

© L p i Journal of Shipping and Trade (JST) is an open access and multi-disciplinary academic journal that focuses both shipping business and transport related areas. Shipping is closely associated with trading activities. JST aims to promote best practices in shipping and to facilitate global trade activities. JST provides a platform for academics and policy makers in the shipping and trade re...

A large number of data is needed by the computation of the objective Bayesian network, but the data is hard to get in actual computation. The calculation method of Bayesian network was improved in this paper, and the fuzzy-precise Bayesian network was obtained. Then, the fuzzy-precise Bayesian network was used to reason Bayesian network model when the data is limited. The security of passengers...

Shipping-fee charges by online retailers have been known to impact customers' order incidence and cart size. While the importance of managing shipping fees is well documented, few studies have provided normative guidelines for e-tailers to determine optimal shipping-fee schedules. This paper provides two nonlinear mixed-integer programming models to optimize e-tailers' shipping-fee charges for ...

Drop-shipping is an arrangement whereby an e-tailer, who does not hold inventories, processes orders and requests a manufacturer to ship products directly to the end customers. To explore the economic benefits of adopting drop-shipping distribution strategy in a competitive environment, we investigate the profitability and the efficiency of the drop-shipping channel as compared to the tradition...

Being aimed at the influence of ship-size and cargo-demand changes on container shipping networks, to reveal the evolution process of container shipping networks structure form, this paper respectively designed the operation models for two major container shipping networks structure forms: Multi-port-calling network and Hub-and-spoke network, to maximizing the investment efficiency. Based on th...

Fee-based membership free shipping is an important shipping fee schedule in E-Commerce. This paper studies how the membership free shipping (MFS) program affects firm competition and how to set the membership fee optimally. We find MFS relaxes price competition. The firm that adopts MFS has a higher pricing band than the other firm. Both firms have positive profits, strictly better than when me...

The Internet has radically reduced the cost of collecting and distributing information. Consequently, researchers initially predicted that the resulting price transparency would drive prices toward a single market price. However, this has largely not happened, partly because retailers use shipping costs to make prices less comparable. Using data on 517,048 offers of 895 retailers from a leading...