International Journal of Physical Distribution: Volume 4 Issue 5

Load and Vehicle Sizes in Oil Product Deliveries

A.C.N. Bailey, I.M. Gascoigne

This article describes an investigation into the factors affecting load and vehicle sizes for road delivery of oil products. An overall framework of analysis was developed, a…

Increased Profits through Improved Physical Distribution Productivity

Ray O'Leary, Ian Iredale

This article reports on research into the transportation cost element of physical distribution in an Australian packaging materials company. The authors describe how mathematical…

Supply Problems of Small Unit Grocers:: A Case Study

D.A. Kirby

This paper examines the way small unit retailers in Nottingham Metropolitan area use the two major channels of distribution available to them. It suggests that these two forms of…

Variables in the Design of Distribution Systems: In the Confectionery, Pharmaceutical, and Shirt Industries

Jim Brown

This paper is concerned with examining the variables which influence the periodic redesign of physical distribution systems. It assumes that with a few exceptions every…

Transport Service Choice: Punctuality or Speed?

Farouk A. Saleh, C. Das

A physical distribution network can best be analysed and studied as a set of distribution nodes connected chiefly by two kinds of flows: a transportation flow and an informational…

Changing Traditional Distribution Systems:: Fish Marketing in Tanzania

Philip Rosson

An analysis of government plans to modernise a traditional marketing system in East Africa exemplifies a frequent criticism of much development planning. Many plans for change are…

Communications Forum: The Import Tariff System and its Implications for Trades Routeing

P.D. Kitchin

The transport route used is one of the variables in international marketing. This short paper will discuss the impact on the choice of route resulting from two factors—namely, the…

INTERNATIONAL PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION NEWS

Unit loads cheaper than container shipments According to an independent study of transport costs undertaken by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in London, break‐bulk transport can…