Transportation: A Global Supply Chain Perspective
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Author: Robert A. Novack, Brian Gibson, Yoshinori Suzuki, John J. Coyle
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To determine: The reason why the overall growth of global trade has doubled since 2000 and the important factors that contributed to the growth and predict whether the increase in growth will continue in future or not?
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