Purpose – The paper’s aim is to replicate and compare Huo et al.’s study to better understand performance drivers of third-party logistics (3PL) in mainland China and to disseminate Hong Kong 3PL providers’ experience to mainland China’s peers. Design/methodology/approach – A structural model is estimated to test the construct relationships using data collected from 105 mainland China’s 3PL pro...

the exponential growth of the flow of goods and passengers, fragility of certain products and the need for the optimization of transport costs impose on carriers to use more and more multimodal transport. in addition, the need for intermodal transport policy has been strongly driven by environmental concerns and to benefit from the combination of different modes of transport to cope with the in...

The subject of the research is study potential piggyback transportation on basis multimodal terminal and warehouse infrastructure Kaliningrad railway. relevance topic determined by intensification international trade, which requires simplification receiving dispatching transfer operations in a complex logistics system for delivery goods use intermodal transport modules to speed up listed operat...

Intermodality has been a hot topic in the logistics sector for several decades, but the expected diffusion into business is still limited. The key to increased intermodalism lies at the intermodal terminal. This paper puts forward four literature-based propositions that should be part of the future research agenda for intermodal terminals. In order to realise the intermodal terminal of the futu...

The decision-making process on humanitarian logistics deals with variables related to the flow and quality of supplies, since the receipt of emergency relief items, its classification, stock, separation and delivery. Consequently, this decision-making process is crucial for seeking the best results in the allocation of scarce resources for storage and transportation in humanitarian operations, ...

Intermodal goods transport is characterized by a main transport by rail, barge or seaborne vessel, preceded and followed by short in time but expensive road transport. Many times trucks pick-up or deliver a single container which leads to a full truckload vehicle routing problem in terms of economically efficient transport services. Time windows induced by the customer or due to external situat...

The interest of academics, policy makers and transport-related companies for intermodal transport has increased strongly during the past two decades. After all, intermodal transport – defined as the transport of loadings units (such as containers) by different transport modes, without handling the goods when changing modes – is in many cases an alternative to unimodal road transport that has a ...