The awareness of food origin in the consumers’ perspective has gradually become more significant not only in reference to consumers from highly developed countries but also from emerging ones, which are already on their way from a developing to developed economy. The purpose of the paper is to answer the research question by verifying four hypotheses formulated in the research process. The research question is: "Do the variables which characterize consumers of food products in Poland, including gender, age, education and financial status, affect the aspects related to food traceability, such as identification of the producer, importance of food product features when shopping, importance of the information given on food product packaging and influence of the shopping place and frequency on tracing the food origin?" The paper presents the results, analysis, and conclusions from the study in reference to the four assumed hypotheses related to the above-mentioned research question. The study was carried out on a group of 500 consumers of food products in Poland. The study topic selection is justified by the assumed significance of tracing back a food product’s origin for a consumer who functions in a globalization-based economy; this was confirmed by the subject literature presented in the paper.

The paper presents the design and evaluation of the global freight transportation solutions (corridors) between China and Europe (Poland in particular). The authors of this paper develop a universal, generic methodology of designing and evaluating the global transportation corridors. They claim that this problem has a multiple criteria character, and thus produce the proposed approach based on the principles of the methodology of Multiple Criteria Decision Making/ Aiding. The developed paradigm allows for intuitive, heuristic construction of alternative global transportation corridors and their multi-aspect, multi-dimensional evaluation. In the proposed approach the designed transportation solutions can be assessed from different perspectives, including: economic, technical, social, environmental and other aspects. The final output of the analysis is the ranking of the designed transportation corridors resulting in the selection of the most desired solution. The proposed methodology has been tested on a real world case study of a Polish company operating in the clothing industry and being one of the leading business entities in retail clothing market in Central and Eastern Europe.