The Port as a Set of Socio-technical Systems: A Multi-organisational View

Haraldson, Sandra; Lind, Mikael; Breitenbach, Stefan; Croston, Juan Carlos; Karlsson, Mathias; Hirt, Gerald

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50892-0_4

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“…Over centuries, ports have evolved from gateways between land and sea to customer-centric (intermodal) physical and informational hubs with a focus on serving its full community of stakeholders. Ports can be regarded as dynamic organic systems [Nijdam and Van der Horst, 2017], where both economic value creation and complexity increase over time [Lee and Lam, 2016], and play an important role in both national socioeconomic, political, and globalized economic systems [Haraldson et al, 2021]. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [UNCTAD, 1999], Flynn et al [2011], and Lee and Lam [2016] presented stepwise evolution frameworks for ports, describing their change from simple gateways between land and sea to customercentric service hubs.…”

Section: Maritime Ports In the Pimentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Fahim

Rezaei

Jayaraman

et al. 2021

IEEE Eng. Manag. Rev.

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The Physical Internet (PI) is a relatively young and compelling vision about the freight transport and logistics system of the future. Besides showing how many technological and organizational innovations could converge in a real-world logistics system, it also addresses cross-industry interests such as digitalization, standardization, resilience, and environmental sustainability. In the logistics R&D community, the PI is already inspiring new designs of loading and packaging material, architectures for collaboration, and open information exchange, as well as algorithms for system-wide optimization. Our focus is on the position and role of maritime ports within the PI, as the transport hubs that facilitate most of the world's international trade. We introduce the key notions of the PI vision and expand on the unique position of maritime ports in the PI with the respective challenges this may create. Finally, we discuss the requirements for maritime ports to be ready to take up their role in the PI. We found that policy directions for ports to contribute to the development and implementation of the PI lie within the areas of transport infrastructure, (PI) standardization, advanced terminal areas, ICT hardware, information systems (IS) and platforms, and sustainability management.

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Section: Maritime Ports In the Pimentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Fahim

Rezaei

Jayaraman

et al. 2021

IEEE Eng. Manag. Rev.

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“…• Its self-organising nature, with perspectives and methods for perceiving multiorganisational activity (Watson et al 2021) • The concept of episodic tight coupling (Watson et al 2021) • The concept of a maritime stack (Watson et al 2021) • Balancing capital productivity (Watson 2020) and energy efficiency (Lind et al 2020) • The virtuous interplay between different types of systems (Haraldson et al 2021;Watson 2020) However, because of the high level of actor autonomy in this competitive industry, those who own and generate data want complete control over when they grant data access to others. Data owners tend only to authorise the sharing of data when it is in their self-interest, an issue discussed in this book.…”

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confidence: 99%

Maritime Informatics

2021

Progress in IS

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Progress in IS"PROGRESS in IS" encompasses the various areas of Information Systems in theory and practice, presenting cutting-edge advances in the field. It is aimed especially at researchers, doctoral students, and advanced practitioners. The series features both research monographs that make substantial contributions to our state of knowledge and handbooks and other edited volumes, in which a team of experts is organized by one or more leading authorities to write individual chapters on various aspects of the topic. "PROGRESS in IS" is edited by a global team of leading IS experts. The editorial board expressly welcomes new members to this group. Individual volumes in this series are supported by a minimum of two members of the editorial board, and a code of conduct mandatory for all members of the board ensures the quality and cutting-edge nature of the titles published under this series.

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“…Maritime ports function as critical facilitators of logistics and international trade, through which they contribute to the economic development of countries and regions (Arvis et al, 2018a). Haraldson et al (2020) argue that ports should be regarded as dynamic organic systems within both national socio-economic-political and globalized economic systems, in which both economic value creation and complexity have increased over time. Whereas first generation ports merely served as a cargo gateway between land and see, second generation ports started including some warehousing and limited other services.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%