Proceedings of ICLT 2015
CREATING A LOGISTICAL-MEGA-GATEWAY: THE EMIRATE OF DUBAI POTENTIALS
Dr. Syd Gilani; Shahrin Osman
Dubai Maritime City Authority, Government of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; DNV GL Maritime, Middle East and India Sub-continent, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
International Conference on Logistics & Transport 2015, Lyon, France, pp. 49-56
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Abstract
Purpose – s, ranging from shipping and distributing products to a specific geographic location for receiving, collecting, and organising products within the hub. This idea of a logistics hub originated from “Hub and Spoke” which is an air transport phrase used to describe one place for collection and distribution of both air passengers and freight. Also, manufacturing and warehouse distribution projects often choose to operate out of logistics hubs because according to Luttrell (2015), they are quite ofte
Keywords
logistics; freight; shipping; warehouse; distribution
Citation
Dr. Syd Gilani; Shahrin Osman (2015). CREATING A LOGISTICAL-MEGA-GATEWAY: THE EMIRATE OF DUBAI POTENTIALS. Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics & Transport (ICLT 2015), Lyon, France, pp. 49-56.