The Role of Value-Added Services That Provided by Logistics Centers in Ports in Economic Growth
Arab Academy For science, Technology & Maritime transport
The role of value-added services that provided by Logistics centers in ports in economic growth
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Master Degree of International transport and logistics
By
Mohamed Fathi Abu tabl
Research supervisor: Professor Mohamed EL Fayuomi
Date: 5/01/2013
Table of Contents 1-INTRODUCTION 3 2-Background in the literature 4 2.1-General view of value added services (VAS) and its history in ports 4 2.2- Types of value-added services 4 2.3- how logistics centers affected the economic growth in Netherlands 6 3- Methodology, data collection method and reliability of the study 7 3.1- Methodology, data collection method 7 3.2- reliability and the ability to repeat the study: 7 4- Data analysis and results 9 4.1-accuracy of the study 9 4.2- Correlation analysis 10 5-The conclusion 11 List of references 12 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 13 List of Figures 14 List of tables 14
1-INTRODUCTION
Now a days logistics play a significant role in our fast-moving environment, and have great significant economic impacts, If we take USA as example the total logistics U.S. cost increased from 78 billion $ in 1960 to 1,183 billion $ in 2005 as per (Murphy and Wood, 2007), According to council of supply chain management professionals (CSCMP) the Logistics management is that part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverses flow and storage of goods, services and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements (CSCMP, http://cscmp.org/about-us/supply-chain-management-definitions ,2012). So according to this definition the logistics is not only about the flow of physical goods but also services and information that may add value to the transported goods, So in recent years there was a trend to
The role of value-added services that provided by Logistics centers in ports in economic growth
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Master Degree of International transport and logistics
By
Mohamed Fathi Abu tabl
Research supervisor: Professor Mohamed EL Fayuomi
Date: 5/01/2013
Table of Contents 1-INTRODUCTION 3 2-Background in the literature 4 2.1-General view of value added services (VAS) and its history in ports 4 2.2- Types of value-added services 4 2.3- how logistics centers affected the economic growth in Netherlands 6 3- Methodology, data collection method and reliability of the study 7 3.1- Methodology, data collection method 7 3.2- reliability and the ability to repeat the study: 7 4- Data analysis and results 9 4.1-accuracy of the study 9 4.2- Correlation analysis 10 5-The conclusion 11 List of references 12 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 13 List of Figures 14 List of tables 14
1-INTRODUCTION
Now a days logistics play a significant role in our fast-moving environment, and have great significant economic impacts, If we take USA as example the total logistics U.S. cost increased from 78 billion $ in 1960 to 1,183 billion $ in 2005 as per (Murphy and Wood, 2007), According to council of supply chain management professionals (CSCMP) the Logistics management is that part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverses flow and storage of goods, services and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements (CSCMP, http://cscmp.org/about-us/supply-chain-management-definitions ,2012). So according to this definition the logistics is not only about the flow of physical goods but also services and information that may add value to the transported goods, So in recent years there was a trend to