Intermodal technologies in the logistics of freight forwarding services
Aleksandr Dmitriev
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Dmitriev Aleksandr V. – Candidate of Science, Economics, Associate professor of the Сhair of Logistics and Trade policy (Saint-Petersburg University of Economics)
Keywords:intermodal technologies, intermodal transportation operator, logistics of freight forwarding services, material flows, terminal and warehousing systems
Citation: Aleksandr Dmitriev (2015). Intermodal technologies in the logistics of freight forwarding services. Russian Journal of Entrepreneurship, 16(5), 787-798. doi: 10.18334/rp.16.5.128
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Abstract:
The article deals with the application of intermodal freight delivery technologies in logistics of freight forwarding services. The author notes that one of the main forms of freight forwarding activities on the integrated market is currently the organization of the delivery of goods in mixed intermodal systems. This activity type increases the economic efficiency of logistic transportation systems. The article explains that the key role in ensuring the synchronization of material flows in intermodal supply chains belongs to the terminal and warehousing systems which are the nodal elements of the logistics infrastructure of the goods flows.