自20世纪90年代以来，现代物流业发展迅速。谋求资源在全球范围内的优化配置、企业专注于其核心业务的改革和由生产信息化带来的对物流的更高要求，是现代物流发展的动因所在。对于有志于从事物流业的读者，了解物流业的最新进展十分重要。为此，本书组织了专门的队伍来编写本教材。在本书的编写队伍中，有长期从事英语教学的老师，有曾在国际领先的跨国物流企业工作的专业人士，也有在境外从事全球物流研究的学者。本书共分17个章节，其内容涵盖海陆空铁运输、仓储与库存管理、货代与物流业务、国际贸易与电子商务等。该书可供各大专院校作为教材使用，也可供从事相关工作的人员作为参考用书使用。

本书是物流工程、物流管理专业的专业英语教材，选材内容涵盖海陆空铁运输、仓储与库存管理、货代与物流业务、国际贸易与电子商务、班轮业务、集装箱运输业务、物流与供应链管理等方面。内容精简、专业、全面、实用，深度恰当。本书适用于物流工程与管理专业本科生、高职生和其他相关专业作教材，也可供物流部门工程技术人员参考。

Lesson 1 What Is Logistics

 1.1 Basic Concepts

 1.2 Five Major Areas

Lesson 2 Maritime Transportation

 2.1 The International Transport System

 2.2 The Nature of Transport Demand

 2.3 Introduction of Bulk Cargo and General Cargo

Lesson 3 EC, EB and EDI

 3.1 What is Electronic Commerce

 3.2 What is E-business

 3.3 Difference between E-commerce and E-business

 3.4 What is EDI

Lesson 4 Truck Transportation

 4.1 General Service Characteristics

 4.2 Equipment

 4.3 Types of Vehicles

Lesson 5 International Trade

 5.1 Merchandise Exports and Imports

 5.2 Service Exports and Imports

 5.3 Licensing

 5.4 Trading Companies

 5.5 Joint Ventures

 5.6 Investment

 5.7 Visible and Invisible Trade

Lesson 6 Air Transportation

 6.1 Elements of Air Transport

 6.2 Characteristics of Air Transport

 6.3 Air Cargo Containers

 6.4 Documents of Carriage

Lesson 7 Rail Transportation

 7.1 Commodities Hauled on the Rail

 7.2 Feature of Rail Transport ~

 7.3 Innovations in Rail Transport

Lesson 8 Warehousing Operations

 8.1 What's Warehousing

 8.2 Public, Private and Contract Warehousing

 8.3 Operations

Lesson 9 The Role of Freight Forwarders

 9.1 Introduction

 9.2 What a Freight Forwarder Can Do for You

 9.3 Freight Forwarders and Customs Agents and Brokers

 9.4 Arrange Your Own Transport or Use a Freight Transporter

 9.5 Finding and Choosing a Freight Forwarder

 9.6 The Costs of Using a Freight Forwarder

 9.7 Freight Trade Associations

Lesson 10 Third Party Logistics

 10.1 Overview

 10.2 Outsouring

 10.3 Supply Chain Essentials and Nonessentials

 10.4 Going beyond the 3PL Model

 10.5 Advantages & Disadvantages of 3PL

Lesson 11 E-Iogistics

 11.1 Introduction

 11.2 Forward E-logistics

 11.3 Reverse E-logistics

Lesson 12 Operations in Container Terminals

 12.1 Introduction

 12.2 Containers, Storage Blocks, and Yard Cranes

 12.3 Quay Cranes

 12.4 The Yard Operations

 12.5 Key Performance Measures of a Container Terminal

Lesson 13 Operations in Shipping Liners

 13.1 Two Basic Shipping Services

 13.2 General Procedures of Ocean Transport by Liners

 13.3 Shipping and Forwarding Agents

 13.4 Freight Rates

 13.5 Bill of Lading

Lesson 14 Inventory Management

 14.1 Why Keep Inventory

 14.2 Controlling Inventory

 14.3 Balancing Inventory and Costs

Lesson 15 Supply Chain Performance Assessment

 15.1 Supply Chain's Performance Categories

 15.2 Customer Service Metrics

 15.3 Internal Efficiency Metrics

 15.4 Demand Flexibility Metrics

 15.5 Product Development Metrics

Lesson 16 What Is SC and SCM

 16.1 What isSC

 16.2 Some Related Concepts

 16.3 What is SCM

Lesson 17 Supply Chain Development Strategy

 17.1 Introduction

 17.2 Developing a Supply Chain Strategy

 17.3 Executing Supply Chain Strategy

 17.4 Avoiding Potential Pitfalls

 17.5 Conclusion

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