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The liner container shipping industry is at a maturity stage. and companies undertake strategic changes to resolve key problems by using for example the digital transformation. The digital transformation is the process of digital technologies integration into all company business activities, requiring fundamental changes by introducing new technologies, cultures, operations and the new products and services creation principles. For digital transformation success established companies need to undertake consecutive actions starting from the strategic vision and followed by fundamental realization mechanisms. There is a strong requirement of the new architectural concepts creation, allowing the companies to get a competitive advantage and to provide strategic alignment of business and IT architecture for further successful development. In this research paper architectural approach concepts to the global container shipping line information systems are formulated, the Enterprise Strategic Alignment Method, allowing the company effective development during the global changes of forms and methods of business is adapted and the Balanced Scorecard for digital transformation control is developed.

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This article introduces a simulation ontology to support terminal planers, operator and managers in the design and management of seaport container terminals. Due to the increasing requirements of shipping companies regarding efficiency, quality and price for the handling processes at container terminals, the use of integrated approaches for improving the performance has grown significantly. Simulation, which has proven highly beneficial in production and logistics, represents an adequate tool to deal with complex systems like container terminals. However, building simulation models requires much time and simulation software know-how. To counteract this effect, this article presents a simulation ontology of seaport container terminals, which supports the user in building specific simulation models. Since the simulation model is automatically created through the ontology framework, neither the personnel skills nor the time available to build the simulation model represent significant hurdles. Furthermore, the proposed ontology can dramatically reduce the time required to test a specific configuration of a container terminal and/or a particular management policy. The ontology framework consists of a user interface with database, where the user can specify elements and their parameters, an atom library representing all elements of the system and software application, which is used to automatically build the simulation model.

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