Intermodal transport and distribution patterns in ports relationship to hinterland

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It is of great importance to examine all interactions between ports, terminals, intermodal transport and logistic actors of distribution channels, as their optimization can lead to operational improvement. Proposed paper starts with a brief overview of different goods types and allocation of their logistic costs, with emphasis on storage component. Present trend is to optimize storage costs by means of port storage area buffer function, by making the best use of free storage time available, most of the ports offer. As a research methodology, starting point is to consider the cost structure of a generic intermodal transport (storage, handling and transport costs) and to link this to intermodal distribution patterns most frequently cast-off in port relationship to hinterland. The next step is to evaluate storage costs impact on distribution pattern selection. For a given value of port free storage time, a corresponding value of total storage time in the distribution channel can be identified, in order to substantiate a distribution pattern shift. Different scenarios for transport and handling costs variation, recorded when distribution pattern shift, are integrated in order to establish the reaction of the actors involved in port related logistic and intermodal transport costs evolution is analysed in order to optimize distribution pattern selection.

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Dinu, O., Dragu, V., Ruscǎ, F., Ilie, A., & Oprea, C. (2017). Intermodal transport and distribution patterns in ports relationship to hinterland. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 227). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/227/1/012038

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