Maritime Supply Chains

Published: March 2020

Maritime Supply Chains breaks the maritime chain into components, consistently relating them to the overall integrated supply chain. The book not only analyzes and provides solutions to frequently encountered problems and key operational issues, it also applies cutting-edge scientific techniques on the maritime supply chain. Sections consider shipping, ports and terminals, hinterland and the issues that intersect different parts of the chain. Readers will find discussions of the various actors at play and how they relate to the overall function of the supply chain. Finally, the book offers solutions to the most pressing problems, thus providing a unique, well-balanced account.

Key Features

Provides a comprehensive and integrative account of the maritime supply chain, from shipping, to port, to hinterland

Cuts through the maritime supply chain to offer a transversal picture on how the chain functions

Applies rigorous analytical techniques to give solutions to the most frequent and pressing challenges facing maritime supply chains

Considers advances, such as blockchain, that are set to transform maritime supply chains

Readership

Researchers and postgraduate students in maritime supply chains. Shipping, supply chain, logistics, and port transport managers and other professionals. State and federal maritime and supply chain policymakers

Table of Contents

1. Introduction chapter The maritime supply chain: key issues in and solutions for current maritime supply chains

SHIPPING

2. Economic assessment of alternative roll-on/roll-off services in short sea shipping

3. Link prediction in liner shipping service networks - a Logit model’s extension

4. Developing performance indicators for a logistics model for vessel platooning

PORT AND TERMINALS

5. Using Markov Processes to Investigate Dry Bulk Port Congestion

6. A Generic Understanding of the Economic Changes of Major Ports with Shift-share Analysis Applied, South Korea

7. Policing flows of drugs in the harbor of Antwerp: a nodal-network analysis

8. The economic impact of autonomous shipping

HINTERLAND

9. Identifying policies for intermodal logistics chains based on domestic RO-RO services

10. Automated SME cargo bundling as a tool to reduce transaction costs

TRANSVERSAL ISSUES

11. Blockchain uses for maritime: pros and cons

12. The use of blockchain in the logistic chain

13. Integration of the maritime supply chain: evolving from collaboration processed to maritime supply chain network