Professor Edwin Cheng, Dean of the Faculty of Business (left), at the AFLAS awards presentation (Photo courtesy of Asia Cargo News)
The Faculty of Business at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University received the recognition of the Best Logistics Educational Course Provider at the 2021 Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain (AFLAS) Awards presentation on 21 October 2021.
AFLAS awards, hosted by Asia Cargo News, honour leading service providers such as air and shipping lines, airports and seaports in addition to logistics, including third-party logistics, and other associated industry professionals for their leadership as well as consistency in service quality, innovation, customer relationship management, and reliability.
The Faculty of Business ranks first outside the US and 12th in the world in the area of Production and Operations Management, based on publications in the four premium journals used for The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Top 100 Worldwide Business School Rankings Based on Research Contributions 2016 to 2020. The Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, under the Faculty, is the sole provider of comprehensive logistics and maritime education at tertiary level in Hong Kong. Its shipping research is the first in the world, based on Thomson Reuters’ ISI Web of Science 2018 to 2020 data.
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