Shipping and Transportation Traffic of Medical and Non-Medical Goods Before and During COVID-19 in Oman

The transportation and logistics services have been severely disrupted starting from February 2020 due to precautionary measures of partial and complete lockdown taken by a number of countries to control the spread of COVID-19. The study aims to investigate the changes in the shipping and transporta...

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Autores principales: Mishrif, Ashraf, Khan, Asharul Islam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9044733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.03.031
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description The transportation and logistics services have been severely disrupted starting from February 2020 due to precautionary measures of partial and complete lockdown taken by a number of countries to control the spread of COVID-19. The study aims to investigate the changes in the shipping and transportation traffic of medical and non-medical goods during and before the start of COVID-19 pandemic in Oman. The research question that will be addressed here is “Is there any significant difference in the volume of shipping and transportation traffic of medical and non-medical goods before and during COVID-19 in Oman?” The study applies the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and Friedman’s two way ANOVA on the data collected from 61 companies operating in Oman. The study found that the shipping and transportation traffic of both medical and non-medical goods decreased by 6.5% and 25.6% respectively during COVID-19. The higher percentage of decrease is noticeable in non-medical goods than the medical.
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spelling pubmed-90447332022-04-28 Shipping and Transportation Traffic of Medical and Non-Medical Goods Before and During COVID-19 in Oman Mishrif, Ashraf Khan, Asharul Islam Procedia Comput Sci Article The transportation and logistics services have been severely disrupted starting from February 2020 due to precautionary measures of partial and complete lockdown taken by a number of countries to control the spread of COVID-19. The study aims to investigate the changes in the shipping and transportation traffic of medical and non-medical goods during and before the start of COVID-19 pandemic in Oman. The research question that will be addressed here is “Is there any significant difference in the volume of shipping and transportation traffic of medical and non-medical goods before and during COVID-19 in Oman?” The study applies the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and Friedman’s two way ANOVA on the data collected from 61 companies operating in Oman. The study found that the shipping and transportation traffic of both medical and non-medical goods decreased by 6.5% and 25.6% respectively during COVID-19. The higher percentage of decrease is noticeable in non-medical goods than the medical. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022 2022-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9044733/ /pubmed/35502236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.03.031 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9044733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.03.031
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