Maritime logistics as an emerging discipline

The evolution of maritime logistics as an emerging discipline has resulted, to a large extent, from the increasing and varied demands of shippers and customers and the rapidly changing role of ports in the context of supply and logistics chains. Scholars are becoming increasingly aware of the need to integrate logistics and supply chain management concepts in the maritime transportation chain and operations. This article aims to provide a review and foundation for understanding the domain of maritime logistics and to assess its potential as an emerging discipline. To do so, a framework for understanding the various aspects of maritime logistics strategy and implementation is developed. A synthesis of the existing knowledge on maritime logistics is done by integrating diverse explorations forming the basis of this framework. We draw upon the literature on maritime transport and ports and primarily theliterature that analyses concepts by adopting an economic or management perspective.     

Advances in port studies: the contribution of 40 years Maritime Policy & Management

Port economics, management and policy have progressively emerged as a distinctive research field, and a core part of maritime economics. This paper provides an analysis of all the 267 port studies published in Maritime Policy & Management (MPM) since its inception in 1973. This paper provides a content analysis for seven interrelated research theme categories including main research topics and methods, authorship distribution and citation counts. It is demonstrated that MPM played, and continues to play, a key role in publishing research on seaports. The published research increasingly applies established analytical frameworks to ports. The paper concludes with a discussion on current challenges for port-related research.     

Overseas trade vis-a-vis overseas shipping: Growth and performance in India (1999–2009)

Maritime trade has been and even continues to account for about a lion's share of India's total cargo volumes. Despite the growth of multimodal transport (by land, water and air), shipping still continues to be the major mode of transport in the bulk carriage of country's overseas trade. In view of this vital role of shipping, in the first four decades of independence, under the initiative of planned development and active government support, India's shipping and port sector saw dramatic growth in their performance to build adequate national fleet, in keeping up with the transport of overseas cargo. However, the onset of economic liberalization in 1991 has given rise to many new dimensions in the development of the shipping and port sector of the country with a significant redefinition of shipping and port services, in response to the new global trend patterns. For instance, it has also established the new era of containerization in the mode of cargo delivery from the dominance of the era of bulk and break-bulk trade during the decade of sixties and seventies. Moreover, as global competition increases, in response to this emerging trade patterns within this country, India's volume of traffic growth also increases manifold. So, India's shipping and port sectors need, significantly, to build up and furnish their capacity by increasing the frequency of this mode of transport i.e. the growth of the national overseas fleet to meet this surging demand. This paper, therefore, have focused on this role of shipping in such rising overseas trade, with a view to examine the shipping performance (the growth of overseas fleet) in response to the growing overseas trade at all ports of India during the period (1999–2000 to 2008–2009), in terms of both a mathematical model and a graphical representation. Finally, it concludes that the absolute overseas trade, being highly import dependent, have led to a more or less stagnant performance in overseas shipping, owing to the lack of the adequate growth of absolute overseas exports during this period.     

集装箱港区交通系统规划研究

通过分析集装箱港区用地和交通构成的特点,系统地阐述了集装箱港区的交通规划过程,包括现状凋查分析、交通需求预测以及港区重要功能区之间的交通组织设计等内容.将港区内的交通分为集疏运交通和非集疏运交通2大类分别进行研究,重点研究了集疏运交通特别是其交通需求预测.该方法在深圳西部港区疏港道路工程规划和组织设计中得到了应用.     

基于ARIMA-RBF神经网络的沿海港口吞吐量预测研究

在沿海吞吐量预测中，影响因素多且复杂，传统的计量经济模型很难得到满意的结果。针对此特点，提出一种组合预测模型，先后用ARIM A模型和RBF神经网络模型探求港口吞吐量历史数据的线性和非线性变化规律，最后将两者预测结果组合。对福建省港口货物吞吐量预测作为实例进行验证，结果表明，相对单一预测模型，该方法的预测精确度更高。     

Cluster analysis of the competitiveness of container ports in Brazil

The container cargo proportion of total maritime transport increased from 3% in 1980 to 16% in 2011. The largest Brazilian port, the port of Santos, is the 42nd largest container port in the world. However, Santos’ performance indicators are much lower than those of the world’s largest ports, so comparisons with them are difficult. This article focuses on the Brazilian container terminals that handled containers in 2009 and compares port competitiveness. This study classified seventeen Brazilian container terminals into three distinct groups based on the following competitiveness criteria: number of containers handled, berth length, number of berths, terminal tariffs (in US$), berth depth, rate of medium consignment (in containers/ship), medium board (containers/hour), average waiting time for mooring (in hours/ship), and average waiting time for load or unload cargo (in hours/ship). This classification used a hierarchical cluster analysis. The classification shows that the terminal of Tecon in the port of Santos has the best performance of all, while small terminals (<150,000 container units) are the worst performing terminals in Brazil.     

BT建设模式在沿海城市老港区搬迁中的应用探讨

分析了随着经济和社会发展,沿海港口城市建设在发展变迁中面临的主要问题,同时简要阐述了沿海城市老港区搬迁过程中传统搬迁模式及其主要问题;论述BT建设模式在解决老港区搬迁过程中的适用性,并结合国内相关的法律法规情况,对如何应用BT建设模式解决城市老港区搬迁问题进行探讨.     

我国港口工程项目管理模式分析

伴随着全球经济一体化,港口在区域经济和地方经济发展中将起着更加重要的作用。通过对国内外港口工程项目管理模式的深入研究,总结归纳我国港口工程现有的项目管理模式。从业主方投资管理的角度,将我国现有的港口工程项目管理模式分为三类,并对各种模式进行深入分析,提出我国港口工程项目管理模式的选择建议,以期为提高我国港口工程项目管理水平提供借鉴。     

江苏沿海港口吞吐量影响因素及预测分析

目前江苏沿海地区综合开发已上升到国家发展战略层面,沿海港口建设正在迅猛开展。港口吞吐量的预测对于港口的建设有着极其重要的意义。以港口和腹地之间的互动关系为出发点,分析了可能影响江苏沿海港口吞吐量的若干因素,采用主成分分析法提取了过去10年影响港口吞吐量的最关键因素,剖析了江苏港口发展的内在影响机理,并提出了基于影响机理的预测模型。最后使用模型对江苏港口吞吐量进行验证分析,模型为江苏沿海港口新一轮发展提供了有力的数据支撑。     

泛地主港模式对浙江沿海港口的借鉴作用

以嘉兴港实践地主港模式作为实证研究对象,对其成效和存在的问题进行剖析,提出以泛地主港模式进行港口建设的思路,介绍泛地主港模式的运作方式和程序,就泛地主港模式对浙江沿海港口的借鉴作用进行论述.