It boasts its own HAL-like computers - the very sardonic TARS and the quietly spoken CASE.
It's not crazy to think that mass deaths of wildlife are telling us something about the state of the world, Raimondi said, but it remains important to let the evidence speak case by case.
However, the PPIs of Colombo and Singapore are significantly different even in the hub and spoke case.
Colombo has a considerably lower PPI for the relay case than for the hub and spoke case, whereas Tanjung Pelepas indicates almost similar PPIs for both network types.
The results indicate that, for shipping lines, the significance levels of different categories vary less in the relay case as compared to the hub and spoke case.
The higher PPIs of all hub ports for hub and spoke networks than for relay networks could be a result of the higher AvSSs of most criteria in the hub and spoke case than in the relay case.
Only five criteria, "hub port accessibility," "frequency of delays," "records of damages," "efficiency of husbandry services," and "availability of dedicated/own terminal," obtained a higher AvSS in the relay case than in the hub and spoke case.
The high significance for vessel turnaround time in the hub and spoke case could be due to the high numbers of loading/unloading containers from the large volume of transshipments, which eventually lead to a high turnaround time.
Similarly, both logistics facilities and special preferences on shipping lines could be considered more significant in the hub and spoke case, especially due to the lack of advanced value-adding facilities in feeder ports.
I am not speaking of cases of advanced disease about the joint, nor of cases of dislocation from disease.
Strictly speaking, those cases could be pursued under existing law but rarely are.
