Influence of Strategic Interrelationships and Decision-Making in Chilean Port Networks on Their Degree of Sustainability

Durán, Claudia; Palominos, Fredi Edgardo; Carrasco, Raúl; Carrillo, Eduardo

doi:10.3390/su13073959

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“…The roles of decision-makers belonging to the port community have been investigated in the literature. A synthesis has been reported in Carlan et al (2016), specific roles of decision-makers involved in agri-food logistics have been presented in Castelein et al (2019), general roles in pursuing sustainability goals have been presented in Durán et al (2021).…”

Section: Decision-makers In the Demand Modelmentioning

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The Role of Emerging ICT in the Ports: Increasing Utilities According to Shared Decisions

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Musolino

2021

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Geographical location, infrastructures, and services are the main consolidated pillars of a port in terms of its capacity to compete and cooperate with other ports. In the last years, a new pillar was identified: emerging technologies. Ports’ issues were initially solved with individual ICT solutions adopted by each decision-maker, which generated efficiencies in the three main port flows: cargo, information, and financial. However, new benefits and challenges are connected with the introduction of shared emerging ICT among decision-makers inside ports. The crucial issue concerns the fact that several decision-makers could share a decision about a single-port operation. Therefore, the effectiveness and efficiency of ports depend on how the interactions between the decision-makers are solved. Port operations are associated with movements (cargo) and transactions (information and financial) in a synchronic graph, which allows highlighting the role of emerging technologies in the modification of port operation generalized cost, considering the different decision-makers. The focal point concerns the building of a theoretical model using the formal equations of Transport System Models (TSMs) for the estimation of the cost for a Unit of Load (UL), e.g., a container traveling along a path, composed of a sequence of port operations, inside a port with and without emerging technologies. The proposed theoretical model provides the possibility of estimating ex ante the reduction of cost (port time of UL) given by introducing new technologies and a Port Community System (PCS). Different scenarios, considering some cases, ranging from the absence of ICT to the presence of a PCS, are compared, considering the different situations from a non-congested port to a congested one. The main results of the study and its novelty concern, on the one hand, the extension of TSMs to port systems, highlighting the problem of a non-single decision-maker (two or more) in some port operations and, on the other hand, the possibility of reducing the generalized cost (e.g., time) in the same operations in which there are concurrent decision-makers, through the use of an advanced PCS. The reported numerical example confirms the theoretical results. The work can be useful for researchers for port planners (e.g., port authorities) because it permits evaluating the utility for introducing shared emerging technologies using advanced PCS in a unified view.

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Section: Decision-makers In the Demand Modelmentioning

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The Role of Emerging ICT in the Ports: Increasing Utilities According to Shared Decisions

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Musolino

2021

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“…In other words, the aim is to know if the social aspects are aligned with the decision making of the public-private ports in Chile, and if they are linked to public policies that would be more effective and closer to the community. By determining these aspects, both the port administrator and the State agencies that regulate, administrate and coordinate the ports could, for example: incorporate aspects of sustainability that generate shared value [29], [44]; have more transparency in the processing of information; increase the instances of dialogue that are more representative to improve port-city relations; and make predictions of events related to port stoppages, to avoid the loss of profitability generated by social problems/disturbances.…”

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“…It should be said that in this sector, technological transformation is considered an added value for the systems that process strategic, business and operational information. This innovation improves decision-making, increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the activities of the export and import logistics chains [44].…”

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“…This domain can be described as increasingly affecting the strategic aspects of governance. Taking said domain into consideration would improve competitiveness between ports, the environment and social capital innovation [44]. • Cognitive: Includes the learning and knowledge acquired in the creation of synergies between the city and the State, and the changes incorporated for the modernization of the port business model.…”

Section: B Latin American Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As mentioned in Section I in the motivation part, the port studied has only some attributes of smart industry and it still needs to develop more advanced technology such as BC, Crowdsourcing and CrowdBC [44], [82]. This is difficult to implement in the short term since it requires a high investment in innovation, and depends on the approval of a State public committee in addition to being decreed by law.…”

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Boosting the Decision-Making in Smart Ports by Using Blockchain

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Blockchain technology (BC) offers an innovation platform for decentralized and transparent transactions in the maritime port industry. This technology allows guaranteeing trust, transparency and traceability of cargo and data to be tracked. Today, in the port systems of emerging market countries, BC technology is increasingly being incorporated into information and communication processes. In parallel, the social domain has begun to be explored due to the lack of link between the port and the city it occupies, and the need to incorporate public actors in decision-making at the governance level. In this sense, the present work aims to promote BC technology in order to transform data and information into useful knowledge for effective decision making, through the use of Crowdsourcing. A Crowdsourcing Blockchain (CrowdBC) conceptual framework and its architecture are generated for a port system in which the cybertechnological, social and cognitive domains (CSTC) of smart ports, the knowledge generation process and Crowdsourcing technology are interrelated. Finally, opportunities are discussed for ports that are in permanent development to reduce the gaps with the smart industry. As a discussion, two possible scenarios and recommendations for future implementations that consider the social and cognitive aspects of Industry 4.0 are presented.

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