Analysing Marketing Logistics
Analysis of the Marketability of the Current Logistics Chain The following diagram is an approximate illustration of a consumer electronics...
Identifying and Solving Business Problems
The SWOT is a useful – if sometimes not fully understood – tool for identifying a company’s current and relative...
Global Logistics and Supply Management: Features of a Global Curriculum
The following outlines the prospective content of an undergraduate business studies unit designed to reflect and address the concepts and...
Insurance: Possibilities and Limitations
Trade credit is often extended by carriers (for example: operators such as Hamburg Sud, where I worked for a spell)...
Cargo and Credit Insurance
International Trade is a risk-prone activity. Transportation related risk is largely external to the firm. That is, transportation is more...
Freight Modalities (6): Pipeline
A major non-mechanical mode of transportation is pipeline. Fluids, i.e. gases and liquids, can be efficiently and economically transported via...
Freight Modalities (5): Air
Air transportation is the last of the main commercial mechanical transportation options. Transport buyer can be by freight specialising aircraft...
Freight Modalities (4): Containers a.k.a Intermodal
Containers are an irreducible element of the international shipping process. Containers offer many advantages, but there are disadvantages too. The...
Freight Modalities (3): Seas and Waterways
Seas and waterways offer a historically validated mode of economic movement of goods. Ports and coordination systems constitute the major...