What is necessary to improve the brazilian intermodal terminals? the shippers' point of view from the stated preference approach

• Autor(a) principal: Ricardo Silveira Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Débora Silva Lobo, Alexandre Florindo Alves, Renato Luiz Sproesser
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/47122
• topic: Intermodal freight transport; Agribusiness logistics; Logistics Strategy; Transportation systems; Infrasstructure; Service levels; Supply; Agroindústria; Logística

This study investigates the features of the services that shippers of bulk agricultural products need from intermodal terminals. Agribusiness usually is positively affected by logistics performance, since it normally involves extensive supply chains made up of a large number of agents. The answer to this question may help us understand why Brazilian shippers mainly use road transportation to move low value-added products over long distances and may also help us improve intermodal terminal facilities. Applying the Stated Preference technique, shippers ranked constructs in the following order: reliability, time period, customer relations, cost, and flexibility. The results indicate that constructs associated with quality of service are more highly valued. This implies that there are new points of reference for the transport market which favor the use of long-term contracts and closer relationships.