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Potential Services Offered by a Logistics Zone

Source: adapted from CPCS, DAMF Consulting and J-P Rodrigue (2010) Aménagement d’un pôle logistique au Québec, Volet 4.2 : Évaluation des services requis par un pôle logistique. Services to freight, corporations, and people are fundamental elements of a value proposition of a logistic zone. The above table provides an extensive

Logistic Centric Industrial Park, Wheatland, Pennsylvania

Source: Adapted from Google Earth. A logistic-centric industrial park is a cluster of activities related to freight distribution that are not related to an intermodal terminal, but to road accessibility. The above site depicts such a zone, located halfway between Chicago and New York on the I-80, which is the

Main Advantages of Port-Centric Logistic Zones

Activities related to freight distribution had historically been located directly adjacent to port terminal facilities and had a notable spatial imprint. Containerization incited the development of new terminal facilities and the relocation of many warehousing activities into peripheral greenfield sites, leaving former warehousing and industrial land idle, abandoned, and often

Taxonomy of Logistics Clusters

Source: Taxonomy adapted from Sheffi, Y. (2012) Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Logistics clusters can be classified according to three main criteria: There is no formal taxonomy about how to define logistics clusters, but modal orientation tends to be the most common criteria. The