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
