Transport costs: the dark continent of the logistics world? The impact of transport costs on book and newspaper logistics

Abstract

Contemporary logistics management has become more transport-intensive due, for example, to the centralisation of production and strategies aimed at reducing stocks. Transport costs are increasingly traded off against other logistical costs and seem to have lost importance in strategic decision making. At the same time, transport policy aims at regulating freight transport demand by raising its costs, for example, via taxation. In addition, investment in infrastructure lags behind growth in transport, potentially resulting in increased congestion. In view of logistical trends, what will be the impact of an increase in transport costs? Book and newspaper supply chains were examined as case studies