Intermodal Supply Chain Risk Management

Abstract

Efficient and secure global supply chains contribute to the Improvement of the competitiveness of the products traded on international markets by reducing their costs and delivery time while increasing the reliability and security. Global supply chains are unthinkable without transport integration, which is usually accomplished through the form of intermodal transport systems. Intermodal transport systems are much more complex than the unimodal ones due to the number of stakeholders, included transportation resources, infrastructure and processes, which in case of poor coordination in the planning, organization and implementation of transport chain logistic activities can lead to increased supply chain vulnerability. Therefore, the main challenge in the functioning of intermodal transport operations in supply chains is to increase their efficiency taking into account the problems of associated risks. The current initiatives on the topic of identification and management of risks in the intermodal supply chains do not provide a complete and clear picture of the potential problems which the intermodal supply chains are exposed to. Hence, the purpose of this paper, which is based on the literature review of the model of the intermodal transport system structure and models of risk management in supply chains in general, is to provide a framework for a holistic Consideration of risks in intermodal supply chains, which can lead to the improvement of their efficiency and competitiveness.

The Role of Chittagong Port Authority to Develop Other National Ports in Bangladesh to Provide Maritime Logistics Support in South Asia

“…The intermodal transport development has a great impact on further economic globalization that changed the overall transport system and supply chain where functional integration is impossible without intermodal transport chain [26] . Nowadays, ports are facilitating intermodal transportation directly to the shipper/consignee as a part of integrated maritime logistics support and increasing the hinterland.…”

The role of Bangladeshi ports in developing integrated intermodal freight transportation system in South Asia

“…Role of intermodal transport in port regionalization, developed by the author (Monios & Wilmsmeier, 2013). Maslaric et al (2016) defined IFT as the multiple transportations of containers, swap bodies, semitrailers, and specially designed containers, from origin to destination, by using 2 or more modes, without unloading the cargoes at midpoints; the role of an intermodal transport chain is the efficient transportation of goods in terms of cost, time, and reliability. They assumed that future development of the overall transport system will be based on the principle of intermodality, because intermodal transport development has an impact on further economic globalization.…”