• Global business logistics
- the magnitude of global business
- global markets and global corporations
- global competitive strategy
- customer service strategy

• Critical factors and key trends
- importance of competitive environment critical changes in logistics and transposition
- critical changes in logistics and transposition

• Changing political and legal environments
- a single European market
- Eastern Europe
- The North American free trade agreement
- Maquiladora operations
- Asian emergence
- new directions
- on the line: holidays may be hazardous to international logistics systems

• Global transposition options
- ocean
- air
- motor
- rail

• Strategic channel intermediaries
- foreign freight forwarders
- non-vessel-operating common carriers
- export management companies
- export trading companies
- customs house brokers
- ship brokers
- ship agents
- export packers
- ports

• Storage facilities and packaging
- storage facilities
- supply chain technology: growing up packaging

• Governmental influences
- custom regulation
- other customs functions
- foreign trade zones
- summary
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