The Physical Internet and Maritime Ports: Ready for the Future?

Fahim, Patrick B.M.; Rezaei, Jafar; Jayaraman, Raja; Poulin, Monique; Montreuil, Benoît; Tavasszy, Lóránt

doi:10.1109/emr.2021.3113932

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“…and Big Data" (p. 15). Hendrickson and Rilett (2020) also posed pertinent future research questions about the impacts on the development and uptake of connected and automated vehicles and e-commerce use (see also, Simpson et al, 2019;Monios and Bergqvist, 2020;Fahim et al, 2021;Sindi and Woodman, 2021;Zhou and Wan, 2022).…”

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Innovations in freight transport: a systematic literature evaluation and COVID implications

Mavi

Olaru

et al. 2022

IJLM

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PurposeThis paper systematically evaluates the existing literature of innovations in freight transport, including all modes, to uncover the key research themes and methodologies employed by researchers to study innovations and their implications in this industry. It analyses the role of transport and the impact of innovations during crises, such as COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachQualitative and quantitative analysis of the innovations in freight transport unravels the pre-requisites of such endeavours in achieving a resilient and sustainable transport network that effectively and efficiently operates during a crisis. The authors performed keyword co-occurrence network (KCON) analysis and research focus parallelship network (RFPN) analysis using BibExcel and Gephi to determine the major resulting research streams in freight transport.FindingsThe RFPN identified five emerging themes: transport operations, technological innovation, transport economics, transport policy and resilience and disaster management. Optimisation and simulation techniques, and more recently, artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) approaches, have been used to model and solve freight transport problems. Automation innovations have also penetrated freight and supply chains. Information and communication technology (ICT)-based innovations have also been found to be effective in building resilient supply chains.Research limitations/implicationsGiven the growth of e-commerce during COVID-19 and the resulting logistics demand, along with the need for transporting food and medical emergency products, the role of automation, optimisation, monitoring systems and risk management in the transport industry has become more salient. Transport companies need to improve their operational efficiency using innovative technologies and data science for informed decision-making.Originality/valueThis paper advises researchers and practitioners involved in freight transport and innovation about main directions and gaps in the field through an integrated approach for evaluating research undertaken in the area. This paper also highlights the role of crisis, e.g. COVID-19, and its impacts on freight transport. Major contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) a qualitative and quantitative, systematic and effective assessment of the literature on freight transport through a network analysis of keywords supplemented by a review of the text of 148 papers; (2) unravelling major research areas; (3) identifying innovations in freight transport and their classification as technological and non-technological and (4) investigating the impact of crises and disruptions in freight transport.

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Innovations in freight transport: a systematic literature evaluation and COVID implications

Mavi

Olaru

et al. 2022

IJLM

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“…In the past years, ports have reinvented themselves from cargo transhipment nodes to an integral part of supply chains, as important hubs for materials and information flows. Latest developments in the digital technologies of Industry 4.0, such as blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and Physical Internet have pushed ports beyond their traditional limits and have provided new opportunities for their development (Fahim et al 2021;Parola et al 2020). Although ports have transformed radically, some aspects of port operations still need improvement.…”

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Information sharing to mitigate delays in port: the case of the Port of Rotterdam

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Reliability of service times has long been a concern of many ports around the world. This paper presents an approach to mitigate delays in service times through improved information sharing in ports. The approach is based on a mapping of information sharing links and their association to the root causes of frequently occurring delays. We identify the kind of information which is critical in mitigating delays. Critical information links are then re-ordered to create an information sharing arrangement between the actors, which further condenses and simplifies the required information sharing actions. We apply the proposed approach to the Port of Rotterdam. Quantitative data of 28,000 port calls is complemented by qualitative data collected through direct observations and expert interviews with port actors, including the pilot organization, a tugboat company, the boatmen organization, the harbour master, a terminal and a vessel agent. Besides the suggested arrangement for information sharing, the case reveals the critical position of pilots, a vulnerable position of tugboat companies and the minimal contribution made by the terminal towards information sharing. The increased pressure on ports by ever larger vessels seems to bear its fair share for delays and bottlenecks in the smooth execution of port operations.

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Back to a resilient future: Digital technologies for a sustainable supply chain

Winkelmann,

Guennoun,

Möller

et al. 2024

Inf Syst E-Bus Manage

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Economic, political, and societal pressure forces companies to act more sustainably. New legislation and regulation such as the Supply Chain Act, mandates companies to take responsibility for their actions as well as those of their supply chain collaborators. Meeting these requirements demands transparency. Digital technologies along the supply chain have the potential to collect diverse types of data and raise awareness for sustainability purposes. For example, data obtained from multiple supply chain participants can be used to estimate CO2 emissions or optimize resource utilization. Following guidelines for systematically reviewing a body of literature, this paper therefore investigates the distribution of digital technologies in supply chains for sustainability. Based on a collected corpus of 70 articles, we identify seven key digital technologies and indicate how they can be employed to contribute to economic, environmental, and social sustainability. The results show that (1) blockchain is the most used technology for sustainability within the supply chain and (2) the majority of articles on digital technologies in our corpus address the social dimension of sustainability. Our findings advance the understanding of how digitalization can transform supply chains into more sustainable entities and help practitioners decide which technology fits a certain sustainability dimension.

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The Physical Internet and Maritime Ports: Ready for the Future?

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Innovations in freight transport: a systematic literature evaluation and COVID implications

Innovations in freight transport: a systematic literature evaluation and COVID implications

Information sharing to mitigate delays in port: the case of the Port of Rotterdam

Back to a resilient future: Digital technologies for a sustainable supply chain

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