Hans-Joachim Schramm Bücher

Der Stadtwald von Halle, die Dölauer Heide und ihre Heidedörfer werden vom Autor in zauberhafter Weise beschrieben. Alte Sagen und neue Erzählungen sowie die Flora und Fauna des Waldes lernt der Leser in unterhaltsamer Form kennen. Geschichte und Geologie sind einprägsam beschrieben. Interessante Begebenheiten in der Region, aus früherer und heutiger Zeit, geben dem Buch zusätzlich Spannung.

The book delves into the complexities of international freight forwarding, emphasizing the crucial role of freight forwarders as "The Architect of Transport" within multimodal transport chains. It integrates concepts from economic theory and sociology to offer a comprehensive view of the intermediary role in this sector, often overlooked in existing research. By analyzing relationship patterns through a stylized model and data collected from freight forwarders in Germany and Austria, it aims to enhance understanding of the dynamics within transportation networks.

In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered „The Architect of Transport“, but this intermediary role seems to be largely neglected in research to date. Therefore, relevant concepts from economic theory and economic sociology are employed to produce both an intermediary and a network perspective of freight forwarding in order to provide a better understanding of this kind of transportation business. Furthermore, its intermediary role in such inherent network structures is explored by mapping relationship patterns in a stylized model framework applied to a questionnaire-based sample collected among freight forwarders engaged in such multimodal transport chains in Germany (especially from Hamburg, Bremen and Bremerhaven) as well as in Austria in 2003.