Optimal Hiding Strategy for Transshipments under Trade Embargoes
Trade embargoes, often imposed for political, economic, or security reasons, have long been a tool of international diplomacy. Transshipments may be employed as a strategic mechanism by nations and organizations to circumvent trade embargoes. Transshipment involves rerouting goods through intermedia...
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| description | Trade embargoes, often imposed for political, economic, or security reasons, have long been a tool of international diplomacy. Transshipments may be employed as a strategic mechanism by nations and organizations to circumvent trade embargoes. Transshipment involves rerouting goods through intermediary ports or countries to obscure their origin, destination, or the parties involved. This practice may be subject to investigation, which could lead to exposing the entities employing it. Strategic management of transshipments has to be devised by those entities (the attackers) battling against the transshipment detection mechanisms adopted by the embargo-setters (the defenders). In this paper, we consider an entity exploiting transshipments through several intermediaries. We derive an optimal strategy for that entity wishing to minimize the probability of being exposed. Our strategy provides the optimal number of intermediaries and the optimal distribution of goods among those intermediaries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73bbc28d6ef247d7bad9341c150204c02023-12-22T14:15:54ZengMDPI AGInformation2078-24892023-12-01141265010.3390/info14120650Optimal Hiding Strategy for Transshipments under Trade EmbargoesPaolo Fantozzi0Maurizio Naldi1Department of Law, Economics, Politics, and Modern Languages, LUMSA University, 00193 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Law, Economics, Politics, and Modern Languages, LUMSA University, 00193 Rome, ItalyTrade embargoes, often imposed for political, economic, or security reasons, have long been a tool of international diplomacy. Transshipments may be employed as a strategic mechanism by nations and organizations to circumvent trade embargoes. Transshipment involves rerouting goods through intermediary ports or countries to obscure their origin, destination, or the parties involved. This practice may be subject to investigation, which could lead to exposing the entities employing it. Strategic management of transshipments has to be devised by those entities (the attackers) battling against the transshipment detection mechanisms adopted by the embargo-setters (the defenders). In this paper, we consider an entity exploiting transshipments through several intermediaries. We derive an optimal strategy for that entity wishing to minimize the probability of being exposed. Our strategy provides the optimal number of intermediaries and the optimal distribution of goods among those intermediaries.https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/12/650transshipmentstrade embargoestrade networksroutingsupply chain |
| spellingShingle | Paolo Fantozzi Maurizio Naldi Optimal Hiding Strategy for Transshipments under Trade Embargoes Information transshipments trade embargoes trade networks routing supply chain |
| title | Optimal Hiding Strategy for Transshipments under Trade Embargoes |
| title_full | Optimal Hiding Strategy for Transshipments under Trade Embargoes |
| title_fullStr | Optimal Hiding Strategy for Transshipments under Trade Embargoes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimal Hiding Strategy for Transshipments under Trade Embargoes |
| title_short | Optimal Hiding Strategy for Transshipments under Trade Embargoes |
| title_sort | optimal hiding strategy for transshipments under trade embargoes |
| topic | transshipments trade embargoes trade networks routing supply chain |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/12/650 |
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