While the creation of a virtual store eliminates many of the costs incurred by the traditional bricks and mortar retailer, the spatial separation between customers and the retailer’s distribution facility may result in significant distribution costs. In these circumstances, the determination of shipping and handling fee schedules becomes a key element of the marketing mix. This is a non-trivial...

Kant famously claims that autonomy is the ground of dignity. If he is correct about the grounding relationship, then doubts about our autonomy entail doubts about our dignity. Here, I attempt to show that Kant is sensitive to this problem, and invokes the ‘fact of reason’ (Faktum der Vernunft) as the key piece of evidence for our autonomy, and therefore our dignity. But as is well known, Kant’s...

The shipping routes of the South China Sea (SCS) are of major significance in global trade and global economy. However, the shipping routes of the SCS are frequently threatened by both natural and manmade factors, such as complex submarine topography, extreme weather, and piracy. Previous studies of shipping safety in the SCS mainly focused on the individual ship safety and broader political po...

Shipping is becoming a spearhead economic sector in sea countries. Over 90% of goods and raw materials are transported globally by marine shipping. However, the requests from advanced transport ship generations include much more modern facilities, larger cargo space, faster moving, flexible controlling inland with shorter time. As result, demand for digitalization maritime increasing virtual en...

Аннотация: Статья о новой форме торговли в сети Интернет. Преимущества дропшиппинга открывают для российских производителей и предпринимателей новые горизонты в международной торговле и маркетинге. Автор рассматривает особенности развития и роль дропшиппинга в электронной коммерции нового тысячелетия. Ключевые слова: дропшиппинг, электронная коммерция, интернет-маркетинг, электронная торговля. ...

Strategic alliances generally mean the cooperation or collaboration between firms which pursue for a synergy that each member hopes the benefits from the alliances would be much more than those from individual efforts. Past researches provide us sufficient theories and considerations for alliance forming in liner shipping market. This research reviews important academic journals for the past de...

This paper presents a holistic analysis for the network design problem of the intermodal liner shipping system. Existing methods for liner shipping network design mainly deal with port-to-port demand. However, most of the demand has inland origins and/or destinations. Thus, it is necessary to cope with inland origin-destination (OD) pairs involving a change in transport mode from inland transpo...

This study examines the effectiveness of two prevailingly used sets of mutually exclusive surcharge policies in C2C online auctions. The first policy is the option of using an all-inclusive pricing strategy or a partitioned pricing strategy. The second policy entails the flexibility of shipping policies based on shipping destinations (domestic shipping versus worldwide shipping). The impacts of...

Tramp shipping companies are committed to transport a set of contracted cargoes and try to derive additional revenue from carrying optional spot cargoes. Here, we present a real life ship routing and scheduling problem for a shipping company operating in project shipping, a special segment of tramp shipping. This segment differs from more traditional tramp segments, as the cargoes are usually t...

This investigation studies human well-being from a subjective well-being approach. On the basis of a Mexican database the investigation shows that there is a weak relationship between subjective well-being and indicators of well-being such as income and consumption. Therefore, subjective well-being provides additional useful information to study human well-being and, in consequence, poverty. Th...