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Free shipping is a marketing tactic used primarily by online vendors and mail-order catalogs as a sales strategy to attract customers. [1]
Fleet Management is a function which allows companies which rely on transportation in business to remove or minimize the risks associated with vehicle investment, improving efficiency, productivity and reducing their overall transportation and staff costs, providing 100% compliance with government legislation (duty of care) and many more.
Maritime security is an umbrella term informed to classify issues in the maritime domain that are often related to national security, marine environment, economic development, and human security. [1] [2] This includes the world's oceans but also regional seas, territorial waters, rivers and ports, where seas act as a “ stage for geopolitical ...
Supply and demand stacked in a conceptual chain. A supply chain, sometimes expressed as a "supply-chain", [1] is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them [2] to end consumers [3] or end customers. [4] Meanwhile, supply chain management deals with the flow of ...
Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers. [2] [3] Logistics management is a component that holds the supply chain together. [3] The resources managed in logistics may include tangible goods such as ...
e-Navigation. e-Navigation is a strategy developed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a UN specialized agency, to bring about increased safety of navigation in commercial shipping through better organization of data on ships and on shore, and better data exchange and communication between ships and the ship and shore. [1]
Spatial planning can be defined as the coordination of practices and policies affecting spatial organization. Spatial planning is synonymous with the practices of urban planning in the United States but at larger scales and the term is often used in reference to planning efforts in European countries.
Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers . A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons ( International Union of Railways) hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway, transporting cargo all or some of the way between the shipper ...
Sustainable transport refers to ways of transportation that are sustainable in terms of their social and environmental impacts. Components for evaluating sustainability include the particular vehicles used for road, water or air transport; the source of energy; and the infrastructure used to accommodate the transport ( roads, railways, airways ...
Crowdshipping, sometimes referred to as crowd logistics, [1] applies the concept of crowdsourcing to the personalized delivery of freight. Crowdshipping can be conceived as an example of people using social networking to behave collaboratively and share services and assets for the greater good of the community, as well as for their own personal ...