Publisher's Synopsis
This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of traditional and newly emerging challenges affecting international logistics management from practical, theoretical and policy perspectives. Principles of International Logistics provides an in-depth exploration of the role of intermodal transportation, and the policy-oriented issues of market liberalization, regulatory policies, quality of institutions and supply chain orientation.
Key Features:
- Detailed discussion of the role of the different modes of transport including air, land and maritime transportation
- Evaluation of international logistics and its economic significance, giving students a strong understanding of the basic principles of logistics
- Practically-oriented examples and cases drawn from developed and developing countries in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa to allow students to apply their knowledge in practice
- Coverage of new and emerging international issues such as new technologies and their application to logistics, placing traditional logistics concepts into modern context
Principles of International Logistics will be an essential text for undergraduate students of international logistics, logistics management and global supply chains, and an excellent supplementary text for those studying operations and supply chain management more broadly.
