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Modelling the IT and Business Process Landscapes at Inland Intermodal Terminals
Purpose: A wide range of customer relationships, services and organizational inter-faces characterizes inland intermodal terminals, which are hubs of combined transport. The purposes of this paper are twofold. The first is to highlight challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) at the time of digitalization.
Grafelmann, Michaela +3 more
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Comparison of External Costs in Multimodal Container Transport Chain
The proposed paper discusses multimodal container transport due to savings in external costs. Relevant data have been analysed by reviewing previous research and published works for making a synthesis of one’s own conclusions.
Serđo Kos, Luka Vukić, David Brčić
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Inland terminals, or dry ports, have played an important role in multimodal transportation networks as transportation hubs that provide connections between seaports and hinterland economies.
Punyaanek Srisurin +2 more
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Elbe River Waterway – Economic and Social Benefits
For a very long time the river Labe belongs to the transport ways with an unmistakable impact. Along the river Labe as well as along other inland water ways the commerce was spread and the towns lying on the river of Labe got the state of Hanza towns ...
Bínová Helena
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Detailed Scheduling of Oil Products Pipelines with Parallel Batch Inputs at Intermediate Sources
Pipelines constitute the dominant inland transportation mode for crude oil and oil products. Lots of refined products such as gasoline, jet fuel and diesel are shipped from refineries and seaports to truck-loading terminals by multiproduct pipelines ...
V. Cafaro +3 more
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Predicting the competitive position of extended gates: the case of inland customs zones
The extended gate concept aims to reduce the pressure on international ports by postponing administrative processes from these border gates to inland terminals.
Saeid Sherafatipour +3 more
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Improving Logistics Processes in Inland Container Terminal
This paper focuses on the application of two approaches: Business Process Redesign (BPR) and Discrete Event Simulation (DES) in an attempt to enhance the basic logistics processes in inland container terminals. The goal of the paper is to identify the weaknesses and potential problems in the execution of current logistics processes, as well as to ...
Mirčetić, Dejan +4 more
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On the Integration of Logistics Activities by Shipping Lines: The Case of East-Asia [PDF]
In the 1990s, following the challenges imposed by globalisation, the liner shipping industry experienced profound changes, leading major carriers to create ad-hoc logistics business-units. Nevertheless the vertical integration of shipping lines along the
Francesco Parola +2 more
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Model for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cargo Operation Strategy in an Inland Container Terminal
The paper discusses the issue of unproductivity during the implementation of operations in inland container terminals. The authors hypothesize that the two main factors influencing the number of unproductive manipulations are the adopted operating ...
Mateusz Zając +2 more
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Port Competition in the Northern Range from Le Havre to Hamburg
The main European ports of the Northern Range facingstrong competition develop various strategies. Rotterdam andLe Havre, fast transit, Antwe1p, logistic activities with storage,Hamburg, hub for central and eastem Europe.
Pierre Thorez, Oliver Joly
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