There are two factors that impact decision-making in terminal operations: complexity and unpredictability. Complexity is straight forward; how complicated is the…
Dr. Eva Savelsberg, Senior Vice President, INFORM GmbH,…
Terminal Operators Technical Papers
Digitising complete supply chains and automating information exchange could form a solution to this problem [2]. In order to overcome current…
Katrin Brümmerstedt, Research Associate, Ralf Fiedler, Senior Researcher,…
The interdependence of all actors of the maritime logistics chain is clearly demonstrated and justifies a holistic and balanced approach, be…
FEPORT
In this globalised supply chain from the manufacturer in Asia to the consumer in Europe or America, the marine container terminal…
Dimitrios Pachakis, PhD, PE, CEng, MICE, Sector Director,…
The ports industry is one of the most competitive in the world, a crucial part of keeping out economy thriving, it…
Nick Tonsich, Principal, Clean Air Engineering-Maritime
Just as Google began life as a search engine and now presents itself as a onestop shop for cloud-based data storage…
Michael Bouari, CEO, 1-Stop Connections
Neil Davidson, Senior Analyst (Ports & Terminals) with Drewry Maritime Research has written a new technical paper for Port Technology in…
Neil Davidson, Drewry
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In 2012, the international seaborne trade for dry bulk cargo continued to grow: an overall growth of 5.7 percent, within which…
Dr Mi-Rong Wu, consultant, TBA, Delft, The Netherlands
With the increase in vessel sizes, terminal operators have finally realised that they will no longer be able to handle mega-ships…
Daniel Reiss, President; and Dr Joseph H. Discenza,…
Ports are critical infrastructures. Unavailability of a large port could present a major economic incident for a state or countr. ,A…
Norbert Kouwenhoven, Martin Borrett, Milind Wakankar, IBM
In container shipping, the idea that “big is beautiful” seems to be in vogue. Ever since the invention of the humble…
PSA, Singapore
A recent overall study of the current logistics process makes it clear that all parties involved are developing activities and implement…
Herman Teering, Managing Director, DGM; Robert Mellin, Strategy…
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