'freight hub' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in a business or logistical context, as a way of referring to a place where goods are collected, stored, or shipped. For example, you might say: "The city of Los Angeles is an important freight hub in the US, with cargo often passing through it on its way from Asia to the East Coast."
This paper aims at developing an integral model for the evaluation of road-rail intermodal freight hub location decisions.
This paper introduced a stochastic programming model to address the air freight hub location and flight routes planning under seasonal demand variations.
A rare strike by contract dockworkers in Hong Kong is snarling the flow of ships and goods at a global freight hub, the world's third-busiest container port, after Shanghai and Singapore.
With the construction of the New Jersey Turnpike in 1951 -- Exits 16E and 17 are in Secaucus -- the town became a freight hub where more than a dozen major trucking companies were headquartered.
It also presents an initial location selection process, a testing with individual objective functions, and a design for an agent based model using a case study of intermodal freight hub location decisions in South East Queensland of Australia.
Councillor Nicholas Rushton said the route would use land earmarked for a new freight hub - close to the airport.
EVEN though Kansas City remains one of the nation's busiest freight hubs, the passenger travel began to wane in the 50's and 60's as air travel became more popular.
In surveying cities that have become global freight hubs, Sheffi finds that there is no one template for success, in infrastructure or geographic location; cities that have become logistics centers have generally just aggressively taken advantage of the assets they do have.
The added operations places Embark in the middle of the West Coast's biggest freight hubs, Rodrigues wrote, adding that the company's presence in the region was the key to hitting its milestones for the first half of 2018.
As a result of this, logistics facilities and hubs (intermodal terminals, rail terminals, container and loading terminals, distribution centres as well as other freight hubs, airports and water ports and also large firms) are included in the evaluation of logistics and transportation decisions [31, 45].
Their aim: to get Air China and Chinese officials to back Missouri's bid to create an air-freight hub in St . Louis
