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Freight Forwarders: Coordinators of Transportation

Financial Analysts Journal, 1960
I BELIEVE WE ALL AGREE that we stand upon the threshold of what can be described as "a new era in human experience;" and the next decade has staggering possibilities. A Gross National Product, approaching three-quarters of a trillion dollars is in prospect as well as a population exploding past the 200 million mark, an enormously increased work force ...
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Port choice and freight forwarders

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2009
In light of the growing supply chain power of 3PLs and very limited empirical studies on port choice from the freight forwarders’ perspective, this paper tries to evaluate the major factors influencing port choice from the Southeast Asian freight forwarders’ perspective, their decision-making style and port selection process and draw out some policy ...
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Profiling International Freight Forwarders: A Benchmark

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 1992
Presents a contemporary baseline study of US‐based international freight forwarders. Provides much needed information on industry characteristics, which should reduce the occurrences of managers making important distribution decisions based only on conjecture, subjective perceptions and commonly held assumptions.
Paul R. Murphy, James M. Daley, Douglas R. Dalenberg   +2 more
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Cooperation among freight forwarders: Mode choice and intermodal freight transport

Research in Transportation Economics, 2013
The objective of this paper is to compare vertical and horizontal cooperation among freight forwarders. The paper analyses three freight forwarders (‘players’) with two different means of transportation. The first two players are truck-operating freight forwarders. The third player is a freight forwarder with its own ship. For the purposes of analysis,
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On urban co-modality: Non-cooperative and cooperative games among freight forwarder, carrier and transit operator

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2023
Mingyou, Fangni Zhang, Vinayak V Dixit
exaly  

Collaborating freight forwarding enterprises

OR Spectrum, 2006
Marta Anna Krajewska, Herbert Kopfer
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Trends and challenges in freight forwarding

Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζει τις κυριότερες τάσεις και προκλήσεις που διαμορφώνουν τον κλάδο των διεθνών μεταφορών και πιο συγκεκριμένα τον κλάδο των freight forwarders. Εστιάζει στον ρόλο που διαδραματίζουν οι τεχνολογικές καινοτομίες (όπως blockchain, AI και ψηφιακές πλατφόρμες), οι πρακτικές βιωσιμότητας, οι κανονιστικές εξελίξεις, η ...
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Management Accounting in freight-forwarding companies

2002
The article describes the internal business management processes in a freight forwarding compagny on the operative/tactical level. This is done as an explorative study of how these processes are organized in two medium-sized Danish freight-forwarding compagnies.
Jensen, Jens Ocksen, Lynggaard, Peter
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Some Problems of Freight Forwarders

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1943
Giles Morrow, G. Lloyd Wilson
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The digital freight forwarder and the incumbent: A framework to examine disruptive potentials of digital platforms

Transportation Research, Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2023
exaly