8. CONCLUSIONS
Starting with the borderless of the world, business becomes global. The evolution of transportation is the part of doing business globally. Due to the enhancement in information technology and communication network, the carriers enable to provide the quality of service to the customer and also operate their business efficiency. To be the leading company in this business, carriers have to provide a full range of services to their clients. As a result, door-to-door service is very fashionable nowadays.
Price, speed, reliability and flexibility of service are the criteria that shippers use to determine in which carriers they should deal with. To manage business globally, partnership is one of the strategies that both carriers and clients are undoubtedly looking for.
The fluctuation of demand, the uncertainty of price and the obligation in contract are the factors that the carriers cannot avoid. As we all know that the world economy is in upward trend, the demand for transportation service also heads up. Moreover, the production base is changing from the US and Europe to Asia especially to China due to the cheap production cost. …
