This book contains 10 reviewed papers published as a Special Issue "Global
and International Logistics" in the journal Sustainability, edited by Prof. Dr.
Ryuichi Shibasaki, Prof. Dr. Daisuke Watanabe, and Dr. Tomoya Kawasaki.
The topics of the papers contain the impact of logistics development under the
China's Belt and Road initiative (BRI) by using the improved gravity model,
strategies against barriers to the BRI from a logistics and supply chain management
perspective, the dynamic interaction between international logistics,
and cross-border e-commerce trade, the effect of China's restrictive programs
on the international trade of waste products, the empty container repositioning
problem of shipping companies with foldable containers, port capacity and connectivity
improvement in the hub and feeder network in Indonesia, GHG emission
scenarios for the maritime shipping sector using system dynamics, incorporating
a shipping and shipbuilding market model, the emission inventory and
bunker consumption from a LNG fleet from an automatic identification system
database, the factors that can help select between land transport and maritime
shipping in long-distance inter-regional cross-border transport, and container
transport simulations in Myanmar with the global logistics intermodal network
assignment model including both maritime shipping and land transport in the
land-based Southeast Asia region. Some papers are related to the 8th International
Conference on Transportation and Logistics (T-LOG 2020) which was
held online on 6-7 September 2020 hosted by Universitas Internasional Semen
Indonesia.
