Hans Joachim Schramm

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• Dr. Dipl.-Vw.
• Senior Lecturer at Vienna University of Economics and Business

Purpose Carbon emissions commonly serve as an indicator for environmental friendliness, and so more and more carbon emission calculators (CECs) are offered that allow an estimation of the environmental footprint of freight transport operations. Unfortunately, their exact measurement is challenging due to the availability or poor quality of necessar...

This study investigates user requirements for the design of a Learning Analytics Dashboard (LAD) tailored for assessment in maritime simulator training. User requirements for LAD components and visualization elements were examined. Further, perceptions towards the integration of LAD in performance assessment was explored using Likert-scale question...

Purpose This study aims to explore the gaps concerning the organizational operant resources (OORs) of logistics service providers (LSPs) expected in outsourcing relationships. The study considers the views of both manufacturing firms (M-firms) and LSPs in India and DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) seeking gaps within and across region...

Performance evaluation is fundamental for skill formation and competence development in nautical education and training. Accurate observation and evaluation of students' performance during simulation processes are essential for providing targeted feedback, identifying areas for improvement, and assessing whether the necessary knowledge and skills r...

In a service exchange setting, the supply management literature generally assumes, with notable exceptions, the availability of complete information regarding supplier reliability. Highlighting the information asymmetry in supplier evaluation and using signaling theory, we argue that for a focal buyer, a supplier's downstream ego‐network instabilit...

Performance assessment is fundamental for skill and competence development in professional education and training. This paper reviews the methods and metrics for performance assessment during maritime simulator-based education and training process, and creates an understanding regarding the current stage of knowledge and tools that could be used to...

For the transport and logistics industry, the COVID-19 pandemic can be regarded as one of the most difficult challenges since the beginning of the globalization. Studies showed that transport and logistics sector suffered more than the average economy and had to deal with both high supply and demand fluctuations, leading to major personnel, operati...

Purpose According to the logistics performance index, emerging countries such as India are lagging behind developed countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region). The purpose of this study is to compare and understand the differences in logistics outsourcing outlook in the two regions by considering both manufacturing firms (M-fi...

This study evaluates the attractiveness of the Chittagong Port of Bangladesh from a port users’ perspective. Existing maritime literature is focused on major ports of Europe, East Asia and North America, but many secondary ports of the mainline maritime network, which play a crucial role in their countries, are overlooked. Chittagong Port is such a...

Major players in the maritime business such as shipping lines, charterers, shippers, and others rely heavily on container freight rate forecasts for operational decision making. The non-existence of a formal forward market in the container industry makes it necessary for them to rely on forecasts for their hedging strategy purposes, too. Thus, to i...

In this paper, we contribute to the literature on uncertainty and the drivers of social exchange. We explore the 2008 financial crisis and hand-collect unique data on more than 2,700 vessel chartering deals closed in the container shipping industry from 2000 to 2011. Our contribution is twofold. We challenge the literature by finding that low and h...

This study presents a novel approach to forecast freight rates in container shipping by integrating soft facts in the form of measures originating from surveys among practitioners asked about their sentiment, confidence or perception about present and future market development. As a base case, an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) mod...

Under standard business conditions, total cost optimisation is the dominant factor for modal choice decisions of logistics service providers, carriers and other shareholders in the supply chains. This optimisation implies a continuous quest of these actors for efficiency and low-cost sources on a global scale. However, in times, when unprecedented...

Purpose This paper presents an overview of the recent development of Eurasian rail freight in the Belt and Road era and further evaluates its service quality in terms of transit times and transport costs compared to other transport modes in containerised supply chains between Europe and China. Design/methodology/approach A trade-off model of trans...

Today, products from the automotive industry represent an important share of international trade. Each year, millions of brand new and second-hand motor vehicles are being shipped in completely built-up condition by a variety of specialized deep-sea vessels called car carriers, with roro ramp access providing cargo space for more than 2000 car equi...

This paper aims to analyze the potential future of the 4PL concept based on expert opinions withspecial regard to the influence of digitalization coming with a disruptive trans-formation of supply chains.Service arrangements, provider capabilities and benefits resulting from a 4PL partnership are compared incurrent and future configurations. The re...

This study reviews the green supply chain management (GSCM) literature and proposes a comprehensive view of the structural associations amongst the GSCM factors, viz. drivers, practice indicators and performance measures. The HistCite software was used to perform bibliometric citation meta-analysis on a sample of 1523 articles , obtained from the I...

In this study, we forecast container freight rates using both univariate and multivariate approach and compare forecast performance. For univariate, we adopted ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average); and for multivariate, VAR (Vector Autoregressive) /VEC (Vector Error Correction) and ANN (Artificial Neural Network) models are used. These...

This paper presents an overview of the recent development of Eurasian rail freight in the One Belt, One Road Era and further evaluates its service quality in terms of transit times and transport costs compared to other transport modes in containerised supply chains between Europe and China. A trade-off model of transit time and transport costs base...

The objective of this article is to provide a review of literature dealing with empty container repositioning. This review is interlinked with a qualitative data analysis based on semi-structured interviews with representatives of ocean carriers, which are key actors determining empty container repositioning. Empirical evidence obtained from fieldw...

Considering 91 countries with seaports, this study conducted an empirical inquiry into the broader economic contribution of seaborne trade, from a port infrastructure quality and logistics performance perspective. Investment in quality improvement of port infrastructure and its contribution to economy are often questioned by politicians, investors...

Purpose: Recently, green supply chain management (GSCM) has received great attention in SCM domain. This paper reviews the research progress in GSCM over time, and proposes a holistic view by identifying associations of GSCM drivers, practice indicators and performance measures. Design /methodology /approach: Bibliometric citation meta-analysis w...

This study introduces a state-of-the-art volatility forecasting method for container shipping freight rates. Over the last decade, the container shipping industry has become very unpredictable. The demolition of the shipping conferences system in 2008 for all trades calling at a port in the European Union (EU) and the global financial crisis in 200...

This study introduces a state-of-the-art volatility forecasting method for container shipping freight rates. Over the last decade, the container shipping industry has become very unpredictable. The demolition of the shipping conferences system in 2008 for all trades calling at a port in the European Union (EU) and the global financial crisis in 200...

This year, four papers from the conference are included in the NOFOMA Special Issue. The papers are da Mota Pedrosa, Blazevic and Jasmand: “Logistics innovation development: a micro-level perspective”; Gammelgaard: “The emergence of city logistics. The case of Copenhagen’s Citylogistik-kbh”; Vega and Roussat: “Humanitarian logistics: the role of lo...

In this paper, the Taxation and Customs Union Directorate-General (European Commission) (TAXUD) Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Database was employed and supplemented with company data to develop a census of AEO certifications per company size (in terms of employees and revenue) and export/import quotas in the case of Austria 2008-2013 in order...

Im eurasischen Schienenverkehr stellt die Überwindung unterschiedlicher Spurweiten eine besondere Herausforderung dar. Traditionelle Methoden zur Überbrückung dieser Systemgrenzen sind mit kosten- und zeitintensiven Prozessen verbunden. Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die Tauglichkeit automatischer Spurwechseltechnologie zur Adressierung dieses P...

After this merely descriptive approach to forwarding business, a closer, more theoretically grounded work on the functioning of multimodal transport chains as well as intermediary roles and functions of freight forwarders therein is demanded. In the last sections, the market structure was taken for granted and freight forwarders were just considere...

So far in this piece of work, the topic of freight forwarding in multimodal transport chains with a leg by sea or air was described and theoretically reflected from different perspectives. After reviewing the forwarding business from a legal and functional point of view, contemporary multimodal chains with a leg by sea or air were described based o...

In the following, roots, levels of analysis and relevant measurement issues of SNA are discussed. The main purpose of these sections is to show (1) which are the main streams of development towards contemporary SNA, (2) which are possible levels of analysis and (3) which are relevant analytical instruments to capture social network structures as we...

One of the first explicit definitions of networks in the social sciences can be found in Moreno (1934), summing up his results of a structural analysis of groups: “We have found that these [psychological] currents which break group lines, and even community lines, are not lawless. They are related to more or less permanent structures which bind ind...

Following authors like Palmhofer (1944, p. 8–9), Ullmann (1950, p. 18), Murr (1979, p. 1), Matthäi (1979, p. 4), Seiler (1981, p. 33) or Gass (1991, p. 15), freight forwarding as a special business can be traced to the Medieval Age. Up to this time, a merchant principally transported cargo overland by own means or vessels chartered directly from th...

In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Architect of Transport", but this intermediary role seems...

Die Austauschbarkeit von Flughäfen als Knoten in alternativen Beförderungs- und Transportketten führt zu einem intensiven Wettbewerb der Flughäfen untereinander. Der Kern dieses Beitrags ist die Darstellung der Determinanten im Standortwettbewerb von Flughäfen. Er bietet eine fundierte Grundlage zur Analyse der Auswirkungen verkehrspolitischer Maßn...

This contribution illustrates an investigation of milk and milk products demand management and explores the influ- ence of different consumer preferences, consumer behaviour on the buying decision of milk products, aiming to design a demand chain for European dairies in China. Consumption data were obtained by desk-based research from some investig...

Das vorliegende Buch behandelt allgemeingültige internationale Aspekte des Transport- und Logistikmanagements. Diese werden vor allem anhand von Beispielen und Statistiken aus Deutschland und Österreich verdeutlicht. Dem Studierenden wird mit Zusammenfassungen und Übungsfragen eine fundierte Einführung geboten, dem Praktiker, der es als Nachschlage...

Nach einer sehr langen Zeit im „Dornröschenschlaf“ staatlich regulierter Marktstrukturen ist die Transport- und logistikdienstleistungsbranche seit einigen Jahren in einer Phase des Aufbruchs, welche bereits altbekannte Risiken verstärkt, aber auch eine Vielzahl neuer entstehen lässt, die im täglichen Geschäft nicht außer Acht gelassen werden dürfe...

Electronic linkages between organisations enabled by interorganisational information systems (IOS) such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Internet- based applications or cargo community systems are becoming increasingly important. Recently, many studies have examined the impact of electronic integration in logistics chains. However, there is a...