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Synchro-Modality and Slow Steaming: New Business Perspectives in Freight Transportation

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  • Guido Perboli

    (CIRRELT, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
    ICT for City Logistics and Enterprises Center, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy)

  • Stefano Musso

    (ICT for City Logistics and Enterprises Center, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy)

  • Mariangela Rosano

    (CIRRELT, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
    ICT for City Logistics and Enterprises Center, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy)

  • Roberto Tadei

    (DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy)

  • Moritz Godel

    (London Economics, London WC2R 1LA, UK)

Abstract

The logistics sector faces substantial challenges in meeting customer demands for higher service quality, speed and flexibility under conditions of continued growth in world trade and worldwide transportation movements, increasing distances and vulnerabilities of the supply chain. Additional challenges relate to the economic and environmental sustainability of logistics operations. While a lot of attention was devoted in the past decades to the operational and technical aspects, the business development phase has been put aside, causing the market failure of several projects. The paper presents the SYNCHRO-modal supply chain eco-NET (SYNCHRO-NET) project, which will demonstrate the effectiveness of slow steaming combined with synchro-modality in reducing the cost and the emissions of international supply chains and improving reliability and sustainability through the optimization of the planning process. Differently from other similar projects, SYNCHRO-NET combines operational aspects with a business perspective and represents a stakeholder-driven approach aimed at developing a close-to-market solution over the timeframe of the project.

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  • Guido Perboli & Stefano Musso & Mariangela Rosano & Roberto Tadei & Moritz Godel, 2017. "Synchro-Modality and Slow Steaming: New Business Perspectives in Freight Transportation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(10), pages 1-24, October.
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