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Cross-Border Issues and Research

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Activities at an international border are meant to ensure the security of the residents of a country. The inevitable results are “cross-border issues”—challenges, decisions, and responsibilities not encountered when movements of freight or people are entirely within one nation. This chapter discusses the most common cross-border events that carriers, shippers, importers, and exporters encounter when products move across an international frontier, with an emphasis on academic research on border issues and operations.

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I am indebted to Dr. William Anderson, Director of the Centre for Cross-Border Transportation Studies at the University of Windsor, for his comments and suggestions.

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Higginson, J.K. (2013). Cross-Border Issues and Research. In: Bookbinder, J. (eds) Handbook of Global Logistics. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 181. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6132-7_16

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