Global and International Logistics

• Other Authors: Shibasaki, Ryuichi (Editor), Watanabe, Daisuke (Editor), Kawasaki, Tomoya (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; Belt and Road Initiative; New Silk Road; One Belt One Road; international logistics networks; Nominal Group Technique; scenario analysis; global logistics simulation; intermodal freight transport network; economic corridor; Myanmar; terrestrial ASEAN; Greater Mekong Subregion; East-West Corridor; Southern Corridor; Dawei port; GLINS model; waste plastic; used paper; import ban; import license; international waste trade; liquified natural gas (LNG); Automatic Identification System (AIS); spatial analysis; greenhouse gases (GHGs); bunker; emissions; land transport; cross-border land corridor; Tobit model; international logistics; cross-border e-commerce trade; panel vector error correction model; sustainable development; logistics development level; international trade; gravity model; China; the Belt and Road Initiative; GHG emission measures; international shipping; system dynamics; scenario planning; deceleration operation; energy efficiency design index; LNG fuel; zero-emission ships; container port; connectivity; investment; port cluster; maritime container shipping; empty container repositioning; foldable containers; Pacific Islands; static analysis; consecutive analysis; demand fluctuation; n/a
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This book contains 10 reviewed papers published as a Special Issue "Global and International Logistics" in the journal Sustainability, edited by Prof. Dr. Ryuichi Shibasaki, Prof. Dr. Daisuke Watanabe, and Dr. Tomoya Kawasaki. The topics of the papers contain the impact of logistics development under the China's Belt and Road initiative (BRI) by using the improved gravity model, strategies against barriers to the BRI from a logistics and supply chain management perspective, the dynamic interaction between international logistics, and cross-border e-commerce trade, the effect of China's restrictive programs on the international trade of waste products, the empty container repositioning problem of shipping companies with foldable containers, port capacity and connectivity improvement in the hub and feeder network in Indonesia, GHG emission scenarios for the maritime shipping sector using system dynamics, incorporating a shipping and shipbuilding market model, the emission inventory and bunker consumption from a LNG fleet from an automatic identification system database, the factors that can help select between land transport and maritime shipping in long-distance inter-regional cross-border transport, and container transport simulations in Myanmar with the global logistics intermodal network assignment model including both maritime shipping and land transport in the land-based Southeast Asia region. Some papers are related to the 8th International Conference on Transportation and Logistics (T-LOG 2020) which was held online on 6-7 September 2020 hosted by Universitas Internasional Semen Indonesia.