Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation offers every stakeholder involved in international transactions the tools needed to assess the essential risks, threats and vulnerabilities within the global supply chain. The book examines the role intermodal maritime transportation plays in global security, surveying its critical policies, procedures, operations, infrastructure and systems. Linking new technological standards with intermodal operations, this book provides the foundational knowledge readers need, including transportation and maritime trade students, researchers, practitioners and regulatory agencies.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Gary A. Gordon, Richard R. Young
EAN: 9780128199459
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 790 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-11-26
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GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, TRANSPORTATION / General
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
Central / national / federal government policies, Transport: general interest
Gary Gordon is Senior Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Previously he held positions as a railroad engineering officer, U.S. Army transportation officer, U.S. Government transportation security director and transportation operations, infrastructure and security consultant. He is co-author, with Richard Young, of Railway Security: Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Transportation Security and a member of the Society of American Military Engineers’ Resilience Community of Interest. His work has been published in The Military Engineer, Transportation Research Record of the Transportation Research Board, Journal of Emergency Management, and Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Richard Young is Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at Pennsylvania State University. Previously he held corporate supply chain management positions and was as consultant for a wide range of transportation and industrial firms. He is on the editorial boards of several supply chain journals, a Fulbright German Research Scholar, and received the Distinguished Educator Award of the National Defense Transportation Association. His work has been published in Journal of Transportation Security, Transportation Journal, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Logistics Management, and Journal of Emergency Management.
