... chain players was used accompanied by a grounded theory methodology through an iterative process. Thirty-one interviews were conducted with food supply chain stakeholders: suppliers, logistics providers and retailers. NVivo programme was used for the analysis. Following this, a focus group workshop...

..., and even less of this emanates from Africa itself. In particular, considering that the BRI investments in Africa are largely transport related, there is almost no research covering the area of logistics, which should be greatly affected by the infrastructure investments. This paper sought to establish...

...Ashraf Mishrif; Asharul Khan Purpose The border closure and lockdowns due to Covid-19 pandemic resulted in partial closure of many industrial and commercial complexes, halted the performance of key strategic sectors such as logistics and supply chains, and thus disrupted the global value chains...

...Ramazan Erturgut; Hasan Emin Gürler Human resources can differentiate firms from their competitors or directly affect the success or failure of firms. As in many sectors, there is a need for qualified employees in the logistics sector, which is of great importance for the national economies...

...Peter J. Rimmer AM; Claude Comtois This study revisits the Great Canadian Grain Logistics Crisis of 2013-14 to explore the competitiveness of the country's grain exports. An approach to comprehending the dilemmas of the international grain supply chain and trade, and national logistics policy...

...Afzal Mohammad Khaled; Yong Jin Kim Logistical facility location decisions can make a crucial difference in the success or failure of a company. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have recently become a very popular decision support system to help deal with facility location problems. However...

...Peter J. Rimmer; Mary Krome Hamilton Intersectionist, unionist and relabelling models have largely superseded the subsumption of supply chain management within logistics that formed the basis of the traditionalist model. As there is little congruence between logistics and supply chain management...

... in logistics. The central argument of the paper is that the role of ports as a location for logistics activities evolves with the evolution of logistics concepts. Evidence from West Europe is discussed. With the evolution of logistics concepts towards central coordination and more decentralized physical...

... the system relates to logistics and supply-chain management. The region is moving towards becoming a major world economic hub and the Yellow Sea needs an innovative transportation system to be developed to support the activity that seems destined to take place. This article looks at innovative technologies...

...Burkhard E. Hom This paper defines the emerging intermodal issues, identifies alternative solutions and develops strategies to achieve them. It reviews intermodal logistics policies in the EU, NAFTA and Asia, focusing on the United States and Japan in NAFTA and Asia respectively, because they have...

... strengths and weaknesses, and what users require from the industry before it can become a realistic choice for many in multimodallogistics transport chains. * Logistics and Operations Management. Cardiff Business School. Colum Drive Cardiff CFlO 3EU E-mail: marlow@cardiff.ac.uk © 2004 Jungseok...