Developing Urban Logidtics Towards Sustainable Supply Chain Of Seafood During And Post-Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Of Ho Chi Minh City

Abstract

During COVID-19 pandemic the supply chain and operations in HCMC have been significantly interrupted and some other provinces have also been halted for an extended period of time, which has had a significant impact on the economic activities of seafood, leading to a series of difficulties that people face in accessing this type of product. This thesis focuses on developing urban logistics services, especially for cold chain towards sustainable development in order to maintain and avoid disruption of the seafood supply chain. There are two main goals. Firstly, the evaluation of factors affecting the development of urban logistics is investigated by combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches performed by IBM SPSS Statistics 26 tool for developing the research model and survey, and analyzing descriptive statistics based on Cronbach's Alpha, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Pearson correlation analysis and Linear Regression. Secondly, based on the findings of analysis from the previous part, a solution to develop urban cold chain logistics related to logistics infrastructure and logistics cost is proposed. There are two mathematical models including (1) network optimization model for shrimp supply chain from Bac Lieu to HCMC and (2) vehicle routing planning for delivery to customers in HCMC by developing a multiple integer linear programming (MILP) model and solving it by IBM CPLEX. The proposed models can be used for strategic decisions such as determining the correct number of facilities to minimize the total supply chain network costs and operational decisions to fulfill customer’s demand. After promoting the development of urban logistic services, the expected outcome shall not only contribute benefits to the seafood industry in particular but also to the entire supply chain for any kind of product in order to bring up the level of economic growth and environmental protection awareness in the transportation industry