The analysis and findings from previous chapters clearly illustrate that global supply chains have been revolutionized in the past decades, and that ports have played, and will continue to play, much more decisive roles in the well-being of logistics and
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Global Supply Chains and Trade Logistics: From Firm-Focal to Port-Focal This chapter reviews the mainstream supply chain and logistics studies, which are mainly firm-focal. After that, it will investigate the operations management of global supply chains, together with global outsourcing as an opera...
Their management and operational strategies are entwined with stakeholders on several scales, from local to global and from business to government. In the last decade the port hinterland has attracted increasing attention, as the port’s role in coordinating hinterland logistics activities has become ...
Port-Focal Logistics: The Ideal for Future Global Supply Chains?The analysis and findings from previous chapters clearly illustrate that global supply chains have been revolutionized in the past decades, and that ports have played, and will continue to play, much...K. Y. Ng Adolf...
the development of global supply chains shaped the evolution and development of ports up until today At the end of the chapter, we briefly discuss Hong Kong and the PRD ports in Southern China, which provide an example of the multi-directional development of ports towards port-focal logistics....
As distributing centres of trade and transportation network, ports play an important role in the development of the national economy. With the changing of the global business environment, the port enterprise operation environment is continuously changing
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Hence, it will continue to address the transaction cost economics of port, transport and international trade, pertinent to organizational dynamics of port-focal logistics and supply chains. The chapter concludes with a port efficiency and performance assessment, by investigating an empirical study on ...
After that, it will investigate the operations management of global supply chains, together with global outsourcing as an operational driver towards port-focal supply chain and trade logistics. Finally, it will study the operations management of port-focal supply chain and trade logistics, the ...