Outcome-Driven Supply Chain Perspective on Dry Ports

Abstract

The hinterland leg of maritime containerized transport as a part of supply chain has been increasingly pressured by larger volumes, as well as by a need to fulfill sustainability requirements that are expressed by social opinion and formal regulations. There is a potential to relieve this pressure through integration of a dry port, as a seaport’s inland interface, in the supply chain. Therefore, this paper aims to explain how a supply chain can benefit or enhance its outcomes of cost, responsiveness, security, environmental performance, resilience, and innovation, by the integration of a dry port. The data for this case study is collected through interviews and site visits from the privately owned Skaraborg dry port, Sweden; and the study is limited to the actors of the transport system involved in the development and operations of the dry port integrated setup. The results show that the six supply chain outcomes (cost, responsiveness, security, environmental performance, resilience, and innovation) are perceived by the actors as being desirable, and can be enhanced by the integration of a dry port in the supply chains. In particular, the enhancement of the supply chain outcomes can be achieved due to intermodality and reliability of rail transportation and customization of services associated with the dry port integrated setup, and by increasing the capacity of transportation system.

Planning an Intermodal Terminal for the Sustainable Transport Networks

“…Evaluations are then transformed into triangular fuzzy numbers using the fuzzy scale given in Table 1. (8,9,9) Step 5: Obtain the matrices of the elements' interdependencies strengths.…”

“…These goals can be achieved only by more intensive development of the intermodal transport.One of the major subsystems of the intermodal transport is intermodal terminal representing the place of storage and transshipment of intermodal transport units between the different modes of transport [8]. Intermodal terminals play a significant role in achieving socio-economic and environmental sustainability [9], and their development has an impact on improving the competitive advantage in the market [10]. Accordingly, requirements, goals and needs of different stakeholders, such as investors, owners, operators of the terminal, terminal users, authorities and residents, have to be in taken into consideration in the process of intermodal terminal planning.…”

Exploring seaport - dry ports dyadic integration to meet the increase in container vessels size

“…An increase in maritime flow usually creates an almost proportional increase in inland flow, and, therefore, advancements and improvements only in the maritime link in the transport chain are not enough to make the entire chain function properly (Roso, 2007;Bask et al 2014. Dry ports have become a solution to increase seaport productivity due to movement of containers via high capacity means to and from seaports to achieve an effective supply chain solution in the hinterland as well as in the entire transport chain (Roso, 2007;Khaslavskaya and Roso 2019). The advancement in supply chains increased the pressure on seaport operations and inland freight distribution.…”

“…The advancement in supply chains increased the pressure on seaport operations and inland freight distribution. Therefore, inland accessibility becomes an important component in determining seaport competitiveness (Notteboom and Rodrigue 2005;Roso et al, 2019).…”

“…In general, dry ports increase consistency in sourcing containers from inland destinations, improving inland access, reducing seaport congestion, and providing better customer service (Roso and Lumsden 2010;Andersson and Roso 2016). Dry ports strengthen transport capability by introducing various foreign and domestic stakeholders to the network (Beresford et al 2012), and they have good potential to generate competitiveness in container seaports from various dimensions, namely, seaport performance (Roso 2013), seaport capacity (Ng and Gujar 2009), seaport hinterland (Bask et al 2014;Roso et al, 2019), information systems (Notteboom and Rodrigue 2005), seaport services (Andersson and Roso 2016), and maritime trade (Rodrigue and Notteboom 2010).…”