The Geography of Transport Systems¶
Rodrigue, J., Comtois, Claude, & Slack, B. (2013). The Geography of Transport Systems. Routledge.
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- Transshipment
- First, it identifies where cost, delay, damage, theft, and customs friction concentrate: the cost of handling per transshipment is largely fixed-per-event and, over short to medium distances, dominates the linear per-ton-kilometre cost of haulage — so the number and location of transshipments is a primary determinant of total logistics cost, not simply total distance.
This sourceA transport-geography text pricing transshipment as a fixed handling charge, incurred independently of distance and added to the distance-proportional haul cost. A transport-geography text treating terminal handling as a fixed cost incurred regardless of trip length and added to line-haul cost, so cost keys to transfers rather than miles. A transport-geography text noting Rotterdam's Betuweroute rail link to its German hinterland and ranking Singapore and Rotterdam among the world's leading ports. A transport-geography text listing Singapore among the major transshipment hubs where vessels drop cargo for onward carriage.
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“At the intermediate [transshipment] location, sorting and warehousing are performed”
- First, it identifies where cost, delay, damage, theft, and customs friction concentrate: the cost of handling per transshipment is largely fixed-per-event and, over short to medium distances, dominates the linear per-ton-kilometre cost of haulage — so the number and location of transshipments is a primary determinant of total logistics cost, not simply total distance.
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