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Warehouse location problems for air freight forwarders: a challenge created by the airport relocation

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  • Wan, Yat-wah
  • Cheung, Raymond K.
  • Liu, Jiyin
  • Tong, Judy H.

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The move of Hong Kong International Airport from the city centre to a suburban area in July 1998 provided sufficient capacity to meet the increasing demand of passenger and air-cargo flows in Hong Kong in the foreseeable future. However, the move has adverse side effects such as causing the readjustment of many existing systems and creating many imminent strategic problems. One of such problems is the warehouse location of freight forwarders: they have to decide whether they should locate their warehouses in the new airport, in current locations, or in new locations somewhere in the city. This paper delineates the results of a survey conducted in the summer of 1997 before the airport was relocated. The survey asked what decisions the freight forwarders had made and how they evaluated some potential warehouse locations. The paper also considers two mathematical models, which explain and predict, respectively, the location pattern of freight forwarder warehouses before and after the relocation of the airport.

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  • Wan, Yat-wah & Cheung, Raymond K. & Liu, Jiyin & Tong, Judy H., 1998. "Warehouse location problems for air freight forwarders: a challenge created by the airport relocation," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 201-207.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:4:y:1998:i:4:p:201-207
    DOI: 10.1016/S0969-6997(98)00024-6
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    4. Yuan, Xue-Ming & Low, Joyce M.W. & Ching Tang, Loon, 2010. "Roles of the airport and logistics services on the economic outcomes of an air cargo supply chain," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(2), pages 215-225, October.

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