To cut down cost in a competitive environment, airlines must avoid delays and operation inefficiencies in both airside and landside. However, previous studies have paid little attention to an airlines’ ground operation in airports’ cargo terminals. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to employ the Fuzzy Critical Path method (CPM) to find out airport’s ground critical operation proce...

The results presented in this article identify the role of costs in the scientific and grey freight terminal handling literature and analyses the handling costs of different terminal sizes. The literature review shows that handling costs only play a marginal role in the scientific research in intermodal rail freight terminals (IRT). This is remarkable given the large role costs occupy in decisi...

This paper considers the time-dependent service network design problem with stochastic demand represented by scenarios. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to address real life-size instances of this problem. The model integrates the balancing of empty vehicles, the cost of handling freight in intermediate terminals, the costs associated with moving freight using the selected services, ...

Air freight is an important part of the global supply chain. In particular, various high-value electronic products need to be transported efficiently by air freight. Currently, many air freight forwarders still rely on manual operations to process air cargo. These manual operations may affect target service levels due to handling delays and human errors, and result in high operational costs. In...

This research is focused on evaluating the dispatch of perishable merchandise through reefers (refrigerated maritime containers) with adherence to Cold Chain Quality Indicators (CCQI) standard, which international standard that should apply logistics actors operate said chain. The general objective project aimed at knowing level have standards in transport, handling and storage cold chain, esta...

In spite of extraordinary support programs initiated by the European Union and other national authorities, the percentage of overall freight tra c moved by train is in steady decline. This development is driven by the fact that macro-economic bene ts of rail tra c, such as relief of overloaded road networks and reduced environmental impacts, are countervailed by severe disadvantages from the pe...