Maritime Supply Chains

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.

Provides a comprehensive and integrative account of the maritime supply chain, from shipping, to port, to hinterlandCuts through the maritime supply chain to offer a transversal picture on how the chain functionsApplies rigorous analytical techniques to give solutions to the most frequent and pressing challenges facing maritime supply chainsConsiders advances, such as blockchain, that are set to transform maritime supply chains

1. Introduction: 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 logistics chain 13. Integration of the maritime supply chain: evolving from collaboration processed to maritime supply chain network