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    A virtual organization model for international lcl transportation
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2013) Altuntaş, Ceren; Kurgun, Osman Avsar
    The main purpose of this paper is to propose a virtual organization (VO) model that will serve for demand and supply match in less than a container load (LCL) transportation market. This VO will act as an e-4PL that coordinates 3PLs who offer LCL services on electronic platform and serve as an electronic marketplace where shippers of LCL cargo and suppliers of LCL services will meet. The model has been constructed through the examination of LCL transportation processes and through the analysis of global examples. The paper combines virtual organization literature with LCL transportation literature and provides a suggestion for the better utilization of the LCL transportation market. The proposed model provides an example for future initatives in the establishment of similar virtual organizations and serves as a solution to the cargo-container matching problem for practitoners in the LCL markets.