homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tre Evaluating competitiveness of air cargo express services Yonghwa Park a‚*‚ Jung Kyu Choi b‚ Anming Zhang c a b c Asia Pacific School of Logistics‚ Inha University‚ Incheon 402-751‚ Republic of Korea Department of Aviation‚ The University of New South Wales‚ Sydney‚ Australia Sauder School of Business‚ University of British Columbia‚ Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Air cargo express services Integrators Competitiveness Service factors Analytic Hierarchy Process
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National air express National air is a competitive air express firm with offices around the country. Frank Smith‚ the Chattanooga‚ Tennessee‚ station manager‚ is preparing his quarterly budget report‚ which will be presented at the southeast regional meeting next week. He is very concerned about adding capital expense to the operation when business has not increased appreciably. This has been the worst first quarter‚ he can remember: snow storms‚ earthquakes‚ and bitter cold. He has asked Marta Lewis
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mind when they think of a panda? ‘Adorable!’ ‘Fluffy!’ ‘Cute!’ Unfortunately‚ these lovable creatures are endangered. Threats from China’s human population‚ left over 1‚800 pandas in the world. Development and the increasing human population in China threatens the lives of pandas and leads to their numbers dropping. To help them‚ we should donate money so that we could further their research‚ and the making of panda reserves and bamboo corridors. Developments give pandas the risk of isolation‚ starvation
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Christopher Whitten The Polar Express Caldecott Award paper Lorinda Cohoon Polarizing The Polar Express The Polar Express written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg in 1985‚ was chosen for a Caldecott Medal in 1986. It was praised for its detailed illustrations and calm‚ relaxing storyline. Widely considered to be a classic Christmas story for young children‚ it has earned recognition several times in the 28 years since its conception and publication. No stranger to such honors‚ Van Allsburg
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Global express and courier industry overview Introduction The primary business of the express industry is the delivery of time-sensitive shipments‚ typically with a transit time of two to three days. These are delivered mainly by air and ground. The industry has been witnessing significant growth as a result of the constant rise in demand for express and courier services over the last decade across user industries‚ including manufacturing‚ pharmaceutical‚ financial services and high-tech sectors
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two films that I shall be discussing in this essay are‚ ‘Water (2005)’‚ directed by Deepa Mehta and ‘Chungking Express (1994)’‚ directed by Wong Kar-wai. ‘Water’ and ‘Chungking Express’ are two very well-known Asian films. However‚ they are both set in two completely different era’s in time. Firstly‚ ‘Water’ is set in a 1930’s India still under British rule and the second ‘Chungking Express’‚ in a postmodern city. We can see comparisons in both films in terms of gender. However‚ there are also many
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HBS- Airborne Express Background Information Seattle based Airborne Express was the third largest express mail business in the 1990s. The product of two specialist airfreight carriers‚ Airborne Express began operations in 1968 and targeted businesses requiring regular‚ high-volume shipments of urgent items. Airborne maintained low cost operations by focusing on efficiency. We discuss how the express mail industry evolved throughout the 1990s and what Airborne did to remain competitive. How and
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Express Rail Link Decision-making Power‚ is the ability to achieve a desired outcome. In the issue of the Express Rail Link‚ the government’s actions can fully reflect the power as decision-making. Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link is one of the important infrastructure projects planned by the Guangdong Provincial Government and the Hong Kong government. During the process of planning‚ power of the Hong Kong Government- the Transport and Housing Bureau had already been existed. It made
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How and why has the structure of the express mail industry changed? As express mail has become more commonplace it has become increasingly difficult for companies to maintain revenue growth. The top three companies serve over 85% of the market and competition is fierce. In addition‚ six second-tier players were hungry to make inroads and competition from the Post Office and even e-mail made prospects for large increases in volume unlikely. Investments in overseas markets mostly failed to pay-off
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According to Brewster‚ UPS wasn’t particularly concerned about Federal Express in its early years‚ because it didn’t directly compete with UPS’s ground service. The problem was that Federal Express identified a market that was much larger than anyone anticipated‚ including UPS. Brewster says: “By the early 1980s‚ customers were beginning to ask UPS drivers and sales professionals why UPS wasn’t offering next day delivery. UPS‚ a company that had built its reputation and name on the high standards
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