End-to-End Supply Chain

AHTs’ will create new age of fast, inexpensive and convenient transportation, with impacts reverberating far beyond the confines of the trucking industry. Efficiency. Technological prowess. Safety concerns. Public policy catch-up efforts, new jobs created, old jobs destroyed.

Many supply chains are now quicker and nimbler than ever before. Technology is truly transforming supply chain capabilities. What we have labelled the ‘self-thinking supply chain’ is helping companies as diverse as Amazon and Zume Pizza to engage in ‘anticipatory shipping’ where product is moved closer to likely customer demand.

Most of the debate associated to port-call coordination and optimization is related to container transport. As the nature of non-container port-calls differs, the characteristics of non-container segments need to be understood.

Satellite-based services have a great potential to support the marine and maritime community. Parties like fisheries, coast guards, port authorities, shipping companies, research institutions, and many more, will considerably benefit from related innovative services in their daily work, offering a wealth of information on the oceans and coastal areas, e.g. on a variety of environmental variables, near-real-time ice information, and Satellite-Derived Bathymetry, supporting marine and maritime activities and safety of navigation.

Blockchain is the latest technology to create a buzz throughout the world of shipping and logistics management.

In an exclusive Port Technology paper, logistics expert Wolfgang Lehmacher explores the effect of blockchain in China's New Silk Road.

The Port of Rotterdam and BlockLab look at blockchain's potential in this exclusive technical paper.

Supply chain expert and professor Rob Zuidwijk considers the role of smart ports in a wider logistics network

Europe's largest port are leading the charge towards "digital maturity" and, in this new paper, reveal the steps smart ports must take

Matt Miller of OSIsoft considers the evolution of port operations and what the industry must do to optimize

Navis' Frederik Stork looks at how AI and Machine Learning are changing ports and terminals and the wider supply chain.

Richard Morton and Nico De Cauwer examine the ongoing challenge of standardization and explain why it is so important for the industry