China's logistics reform imperatiue

Despite current achievements and a possible 30 per cent growth rate in the coming years, China's logistics market is still fledgling and muddy, said Ding Junfa, vice-president of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. Logistics is an important ingredient for a country to succeed in a globalized economy, said Alan Waller, president of the United Kingdom-based Institute of Logistics and Transport, world's leading logistics certifying organization. China is reviving up efforts to solve bottlenecks haunting the country's logistics industry, officials say. "We are expected to come up with a set of new rules and policies to clean up industrial monopolies, excessive administrative intervention and regional protectionism," said Ma     

China's logistics industry on fast track

A lthough many Chi nese businesses stilldeliver their products to retail-ers themselves, China's profes-sional logistics industry hasbeen growing at a rocketing an-nual rate. The three countries, China,Japan and South Korea, boast-ing big trade volumes, showmuch potential for co-operation. TNT will grow as a com-pany with China, and to helpChina grow with activities in-strumental to the further eco-nomic development of China. Standardization will helpimprove the efficiency of logis-tics an…     

CEPA opportunities for logistics industry

The Chinese mainland/Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement(CEPA) became effective from zero hour Thursday,January 1,2004,with the support of the central government and joint efforts of the industry and commerce circles on both sides.     

China＇s logistics reform imperative

Despite current achievements and a possible 30 percent growth rate in the coming years, China‘s logistics market is still fledgling and muddy, said Ding Junfa,vice-president of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.     

China''''s logistics industry on fast track

Although many Chinese businesses still deliver their products to retailers themselves, China's professional logistics industry has been growing at a rocketing annual rate.     

Implementing new logistics strategies to qccommodate E-commerce

The objective of this paper is to consider the two types of electronic trading and to review the logistics issues associated with each. The author then endeavours to propose a number of strategies that may be appropriate for managing the logistics operations which will be required to deliver the goods to customers whether they are other businesses or end consumers. For China this discussion is very appropriate as the country moves to setting up distribution channels to     

Analysis of development status quo of Chinese logistics market

China now has more than 100,000 logistics enterprises, and their market volume is expected to reach 240 billion yuan (US$29 billion) this year. The volume is expected to exceed 1,000 billion yuan (US$120 billion) by 2010.     

Beijing Olympics,not only an opportunity for logistics

On July 13, 2001, Beijing drewthe attention of the world asthe capital of China won the bid to hostthe 2008 Olympic Games.     

Beijing Loymbics,not only an opportunity for logistics

On July 13, 2001, Beijing drew the attention of the world as the capital of China won the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. From the year 2004 on, the construction of the Olympic venues and related facilities will begin on a large scale, signifying a new stage for the preparation for the Games. Investors at home and abroad are closely watching the preparation work, because of the great business opportunities the Olympic Games will offer. Beijing is devoted to implementing an Olympic economy strategy, because the event is also a historical chance for the     

China＇s logistics market：the road to wealth

The total value of China‘s domes tic logistics in the first quarter of 2004 arrived at 8.21 trillion yuan(US＄993 billion). 31.7 percent higher than the corresponding period last year, according to statistics from the national logistics information center.     

Mumbai lunch box delivery system: A transferable benchmark in urban logistics?

This paper presents findings of a freight transport study carried out for Mumbai city (India). Based on the case study of lunch box delivery system organized by the Mumbai dabbawalas, demonstrated that an informal sector was capable of developing an urban logistics system that was precise, reliable and affordable to the middle class society in Mumbai. These facts suggest an approach based on adapting logistics solutions harmoniously to the urban landscape, public policy, infrastructure and skill sets of the company’s employees in order to be attractive to the end customer, offering a good match between supply and demand i.e., consumer and producer satisfaction. At the same time logistics solutions should evolve continuously in order to be attractive to the core customer base and should be customer driven. These basic management principles can be applied in the management of other urban logistics companies in the world over.     

Structural changes in logistics: how will port authorities face the challenge?

The market environment in which ports operate has changed dramatically, and this continuous process of change raises questions on the role of port authorities. This paper discusses the impact of some structural changes in international trade, transport and shipping on strategic and operational issues in the framework of port management. The central hypothesis put forward is that a successful port (authority), like a successful actor, must be prepared to constantly adopt new roles in order to cope with the changing market environment. The content and strategic scope of these new roles are highlighted, especially with regard to the European container port system.     

Achieving an ASEAN single shipping market: shipping and logistics firms’ perspective

ABSTRACT

To establish an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Single Shipping Market (ASSM) is an important part of ASEAN governments’ overall plan to achieve an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015. It is expected that a single shipping market will improve the region’s logistics performance and international competitiveness. To achieve this vision, however, the ASEAN countries need to remove any remaining barriers to logistics performance. In this light, the objective of this paper is to identify these barriers and assess their effects on the logistics performance of shipping and logistics firms based in ASEAN countries. Using a questionnaire-based survey, the study revealed several barriers affecting their logistics performance with varying significance among these countries. Unless these barriers from the perspective of the industry are removed, the ability of the shipping and logistics industry to benefit from a liberalized market would be limited. These perceived barriers are examined in detail and strategies to address them are proposed. The ASEAN experience is applicable to similar countries in the process of integrating their international shipping sector as well as contributes to the understanding of the different barriers and how these barriers can affect the logistics performance of shipping and logistics companies.     

Effects of the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative on the wine import logistics of China

China’s Belt and Road (BR) initiative is expected to facilitate international trade between the countries involved. In this study, we review the special requirements of wine logistics and the market growth potential of wine consumption in China. A model minimizing generalized logistical costs is developed and applied to wine imports in China, so that the best candidate cities in which to locate transport gateways and distribution centers can be identified. Our analysis suggests that the most preferred gateways are Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong, which all have similar delivery costs. In comparison, Beijing and Chongqing have much higher delivery costs, mainly because they do not have good access to marine transport and/or efficient domestic distribution networks. For long-distance intercontinental transport of large volumes of wine, marine shipping remains the only viable delivery mode. However, wine distribution within China extensively uses air, road, and water transport. Therefore, cities with excellent multi-modal transport services are better positioned to become wine logistics gateways. Our study also highlights the importance of value-added services and good government support, which are important factors that influence distribution costs and quality.     

Measuring the technology gap and logistics performance of individual countries by using a meta-DEA–AR model

This study presents an alternative approach to evaluate the efficiency of the logistics performance index (LPI) of individual countries. This study considers the differences among technology groups by classifying and comparing the countries as high-income Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), high-income non-OECD, upper-middle-income, lower-middle-income, and low-income countries. The meta-frontier data envelopment analysis with assurance regions (Meta-DEA–AR) model is proposed to evaluate LPI scores and differences accurately among groups. For conformity with the ranking of original World Bank LPI, the assurance region of each logistics indicator is obtained by a regression model. The results show that the LPI rankings obtained by the proposed model are very comparable to those of World Bank LPI. Without distorting the rankings, the results offer several managerial suggestions for those countries with inefficiency in their LPIs.