A good hub centre will effectively help expand agglomeration economy effects and increase competitive advantages for global shipping carrier-based logistics service providers (GSLPs). Hence, the selection of hub location of logistics centre is very important for the GSLP companies. In light of this, the main purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated fuzzy MCDM model to evaluate the best...

S schedules are an important but underresearched element of the marketing mix for direct marketers. This paper provides an empirical study on the impact of shipping and handling charges on consumerpurchasing behavior. Using a database from an online retailer that has experimented with a wide variety of shipping-fee schedules, we investigate the impact of shipping charges on order incidence and ...

This paper studies a problem encountered by a buying office for one of the largest retail distributors in the world. An important task for the buying office is to plan the distribution of goods from Asia to various destinations across Europe. The goods are transported along shipping lanes by shipping companies, which offer different discount rates depending on the freight quantity. To increase ...

While much attention has been given to reputation mechanisms to deter fraudulent behaviour in online auctions, we know little about the nature of disputes or the types of problems that users face. This is an exploratory analysis of 129 disputes for five different types of products that were sold on eBay. In the analysis we find seven different types of disputes including poor quality, slow ship...

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 visibility of gratings improves with increasing stimulus area. This effect is usually interpreted as being due to physiological summation within the extent of the largest spatial filter and due to probability summation between the outputs of linear, independent filters beyond that range. It is generally assumed that this improvement is isotropic to the patch configuration. In contrast, the ...

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...