An inte3resting model from MIT scholars, which attempts to figure out how the world’s connectivity is changing. Its strength is looking at actual tickets purchased by customers to find out how they prefer to fly.
Here’s their video.
Article:
New model calculates how air transport connects the world | MIT News.
The article is summarized here, on MIT’s supply chain blog..
http://supplychainmit.com/2015/06/25/is-your-airport-well-connected/
Different ports are growing at different rates. so says Theo Notteboom, from his new post at Dalian University in China. PortEconomics.eu is a very valuable source of data on worldwide port and shipping affairs and data.
PortEconomics.eu – Different speeds in regional container growth in China.
Chris Clott and I have been saying this for several years now. It is nice to see it in a consulting firm’s thinking, as this McKinsey article shows. There are a lot of interesting statistics in the piece, especially the third figure, showing that integration goes with moneymaking.
Landside operations: The next frontier for container-shipping alliances | McKinsey & Company.
Supply Chain Digest Port Technology International Marine Link
Supply Chain and Logistics 