Transshipment hub selection from a shipper’s and freight forwarder’s perspective

• Main Authors: CHEN, Gang, CHEUNG, Waiman, CHU, Sung-Chi, XU, Liang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: (Transshipment) hub selection; Multi-criteria decision-making; Analytical hierarchy process (AHP); Direct transportation link policy; China; Asian Studies; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7110; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8109/viewcontent/Transshipment_hub_selection_from_a_shipper_s_and_freight_forwarder_s_perspective.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Transshipment hub selection becomes increasingly important to the global logistics community. From the perspectives of shippers and freight forwarders, a selection must align with cost control strategy and sustain service reliability across cooperative service providers. This paper assesses the sele...