Okan Tuna

• Head of Department at Dokuz Eylül University

Due to the complex structure of the transportation systems, disruptions in transport operations may occur from time to time. In liner shipping, it is seen that shipping lines frequently deviate from the transit times announced in their vessel schedules, and this leads to schedule unreliability. This leads to schedule unreliability and affects all s...

While studies indicate that collaboration between stakeholders plays a prominent role in reducing food loss and waste (FLW), they have not specified which stakeholder group's collaboration will be more effective in reducing FLW. To fill this gap in the literature, this paper aims to identify and classify fruit and vegetable supply chain (FVSC) stak...

Günümüzde küreselleşmenin ve dünya ticaretindeki artışın etkisiyle birlikte denizyolu taşımacılığına olan talep de giderek artmaktadır. Her taşımacılık modunun kendine özgü avantaj ve dezavantajları bulunmakla birlikte, konteynerin sağladığı yükleri taşıma kolaylığı, denizyolu taşımacılığının avantajları ile birleştiğinde denizyolu konteyner taşıma...

Food loss is one of the significant threats to sustainable development. Although various studies investigating food loss drivers disclosed that logistics is a significant reason for food loss, logistics-related food loss drivers have not been thoroughly studied. Thus, this paper aims to identify, classify and rank the logistics-related food loss dr...

The developments brought by Industry 4.0 have spread to various components in a supply chain, where logistics is of utmost importance due to the intermediate role of logistics service providers (LSPs) operating among different actors. Despite such a vital role, the extant literature lacks from the extensive analysis of Industry 4.0 implementations...

The importance of social media is increasing rapidly in the business world as in the lives of individuals. However, business-to-business (B2B) markets have difficulties in adapting to the newest 21st-century forms of communication. This study evaluates the current social media behaviors of container shipping companies to help practitioners increase...

To be viable long-term, sustainability programs must be profitable. Unfortunately, current sustainability practices increase risk, increasing costs and threatening revenues. Higher costs and lower revenues negatively impact profitability and, thus, the viability of sustainability. To understand how sustainability-induced risks affect food productio...

Tedarik zincirini ilgilendiren birçok konuyu hem teorik hem de vaka çalışmalarıyla ele alan kitabımız, bu alanda eğitim veren üniversitelerde okuyan öğrencilerin tedarik zincirini anlamalarına ve önemini kavramalarına faydalı olacaktır. Ayrıca sektörde çalışan yöntecilerin, şirketlerinin büyümesine sağlayacak stratejiler belirlerken önemli ipuçları...

Today customers are more conscious about sustainability thus companies have to take sustainability into consideration in order to meet the expectations of their customers. In this longitudinal and descriptive research the concept of sustainability in the logistics industry is emphasized. This study attempts to measure the sustainability perceptions...

This study takes a customer focus that prioritises the service-offering dimensions of logistics centres (LCs) by considering potential LC customer expectations. Applying a survey and a quality function deployment methodology to logistics service providers, the study explores, categorises and prioritises LC customer expectations and LC service chara...

Although the literature about supply chain management has mostly focused on developed economies with highly improved intermodal transport systems, there is a need for the investigation of newly emerging markets such as Turkey in terms of intermodal transport and supply chains. Turkey’s strategic location, increasing international trade, especially...

Within the international supply chain and logistics system, ports are an important ring of the basic transport activities. Thus, any shortage in or lack of well-planned orders encountered in the port operation processes is most likely to affect the whole logistic system, which eventually will cause undesirable delays in deliveries. This study aims...

The rapidly globalizing world trade requires longer supply chains with higher attention on the environmental effects of logistics activities. Latest international conventions related with environmental regulations reinforce governments and corporations to adhere to environmental protection precautions. An effort to decrease the negative environment...

In order to enable sustainable learning, practical motivation behind every theory in consideration needs to be experienced extensively. The purpose of this study is to enhance sustainable learning on logistics and supply chain management through an in vitro laboratory environment in which real life supply chain structure is simulated over actual ph...

Ports, from the simple physical sea/land interface they once used to be, have successively turned into commerce and industrial centers, then into logistics and distribution platforms, and are now becoming intermodal nodes in international supply chains networks, the efficiency of which now drives trade competitiveness.With her distinguished locatio...

Son yillarda ücüncü taraf lojistik hizmet tedarikci sayisinin ve rekabetin artmasi, cogu zaman es anlamli kullanilan lojistik deger ve ek deger kavramlarina farkli anlamlar yüklenmesine neden olmustur. Bu calismanin amaci, farkli sekilde yorumlanmaya baslayan bu kavramlarinin, Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren firmalar tarafindan nasil algilandigini bel...

In recent years, the increase in competition and the number of third partyservice providers has led to new meanings on logistic value and logistic valueadded which are usually synomymys. The aim of this paper is to demonstratehow these concepts that have been interpreted in different ways are perceivedby the companies that operate in Turkey. In the...

Turkey is located between Asia and Europe and attracts attention with its economic development. Turkey's landbridge position in north-south and east-west transportation means that ports are of vital importance to the efficiency of logistics activities of the country. Although Turkey has a strategic position in terms of logistics and shipping, its a...

As a result of logistics oriented developments, ports have become elements embedded in value-driven chain systems, in value chain constellations; they deliver value to shippers and other third party service providers in the value-driven chain. The seaport is a traffic link between the manufacturers on the one hand and the commercial markets on the...

Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a learning method based on the principle of using problems as a starting point for the acquisition and integration of new knowledge. PBL has been successfully applied at a number of disciplines and various academic institutions internationally. Objectives of PBL are to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes of the s...

ZET İnsan kaynağı denizcilik sektörünün en önemli unsurudur ve dünya genelinde iyi eğitim almış gemiadamlarına talep her geçen gün artmaktadır. Uluslararası Denizcilik Örgütü (IMO) tarafından 1978 yılında kabul edilen ve 1995 yılında yenilenen STCW konvansiyonu, eğitim, yeterliliğin değerlendirilmesi, belgelendirme, onay verme ve tekrar geçerlilik...

Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a learning method based on the principle of using problems as a starting point for the acquisition and integration of new knowledge. PBL has been successfully applied at a number of disciplines and various academic institutions internationally. Objectives of PBL are to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes of the s...

Officers are the core element of the shipping industry and demand for competent and well educated officers has been growing. Due to the global nature of the shipping industry, structured, standardized, internationally accepted, monitored and assessed education and training are vital elements to meet the expectations of the shipping industry. The ST...

Seafarers are the core element of the shipping industry and demand for competent and well educated seafarers has been growing. Due to the global nature of the shipping industry, structured, standardized, internationally accepted, monitored and assessed education and training are vital elements to meet this demand and expectations of the shipping in...

Tez-(Doktora)-İstanbul Üniversitesi. Kaynakça: y. 201-213.