Strategic intent: Guiding port authorities to their new world?

Following the financial tsunami many organisations are facing greater risks to their sustainability. Strategic collaborations in logistics networks, of which ports are a significant node, reduce risks for all organisations in the network, increase an organisation's ability to access efficiencies such as economies of scale and create opportunities for learning. The knowledge learnt from collaborators is enhanced by managing the key relationships and forming a strategic intent to learn for mutual benefit. Mutual benefits may include market information or innovation. As Awad and Ghaziri (2004, p. 17) comment ‘Beyond efficiency and productivity, the real benefit of collaboration is innovation.’ The more central the port authority is in this network, the greater are the opportunities for learning. Three key factors are critical for port authorities to integrate knowledge from networks; firstly, there are levels of common knowledge that enable effective communication, including concepts, behavioural norms, language and experience. Secondly integrative efficiency requires organisational routines which foster knowledge sharing through frequent, coordinated activities that are repetitive. Thirdly efficient structures within the port authority help maintain effective and efficient communication to minimise the knowledge loss on integration. Strategising provides opportunities for port authorities to steer the critical path between maintaining their current sources of competitive advantage and developing future resilience through innovation opportunities provided by learning from their trading networks. Port authorities, by developing skills in reading the collective mind and interpreting information available in trading networks, can foster resilience into the future. Given the current risky prognosis for the short-medium term following the financial tsunami, instigating strategies that may lessen those risks may be an option for port authorities.     

四网协同建设无线城市策略分析

四网协同能更好发挥移动通信网络各自的覆盖能力和业务承载能力,实现四网长期共存,互为补充,协同发展,有利于集中统筹,避免网络的重复投资。中国移动提出打造无线城市建设目标,通过无线城市的建设将物联网、移动互联网实现融合发展,实现中国移动提升品牌价值,实现无线城市惠民、便民、增收的三大目标。     

汽车零部件行业协同体系及其信息化方法

为提高我国汽车零部件行业的竞争力，分析汽车零部件行业存在问题及原因，结合国内外研究成果，提出我国汽车零部件行业的协同体系。并结合国内外汽车工业信息网络的发展，进一步提出基于网络的汽车零部件行业协同体系的信息化方法。     

How could the collaboration between airport and high speed rail affect the market?

This paper discusses the possibility of collaboration between airport and high speed rail (HSR) to improve the airport’s gateway function. We apply the model which consists of three players, carriers, passengers, and the airport. In order to estimate the impact of the collaboration, we carry out some numerical computations with the model under the twin hub three zones network. Our results show that the collaboration between HSR and the smaller demand airport can reduce the congestion at the bigger demand airport, which suggests the collaboration can be preferable for carriers and passengers; it would improve the social welfare.     

A cost and CO2 comparison of using trains and higher capacity trucks when UK FMCG companies collaborate

Companies working in a collaboration are able to achieve higher vehicle capacity utilisation and reduced empty running, resulting in lower costs and improved sustainability through reduced emissions and congestion. Collaboration produces higher volumes of goods to be moved than individual companies which means that further efficiencies may be possible by relaxing the freight mode constraints and considering rail and higher capacity vehicles. This paper explains how real world data has been used in a model to quantify the economic and environmental benefits in the FMCG sector delivered through collaboration utilising road and rail freight modes. Data for one month was provided by 10 FMCG companies and included freight transport flows between depots and customers, inter depot movements, and supplier collections. Detailed road and rail costs and operating characteristics were obtained and, with the transport flows, applied to a network design model which was used to validate the company data sets. A strategy examining the potential use of alternative higher capacity vehicles and rail for the flows between nine regional consolidation centres showed cost and CO₂ savings. Just under half the inter-regional flows benefited from double deck trailers, longer heavier vehicles for 30% of the flows and rail with different wagon configurations for the rest. In summary there was a 23% reduction in cost with 58% fewer road kilometres and a 46% reduction in CO₂ emissions. The ability to backhaul the same mode of transport between most of the regional centres was one of the strengths of this strategy.     

浅析船舶团队精神的建设

文章从分析船舶团队精神的内涵出发,提出船舶团队精神的建设途径,对创建船舶安全环保运营的环境有极大的参考价值。     

关于对郑州北上行驼峰接收不到进路命令的分析与处理

分析了郑州北上行驼峰接收不到进路命令的原因,提出7024驼峰自动集中使用时间过长,动作继电器的回路电阻明显变大,对有关继电器的动作配合要求提高,指出再处理此类故障时,不但要精通电路原理,而且还要特别重视观察继电器的动作状态。     

混合P2P分组网络研究及其在教学系统中的应用

在现今网络教育中,协同化教育模式也成为其核心模式.然而传统的教育系统存在许多问题,系统可靠性和扩展性差,不能充分利用客户端资源,而且协同化不高.基于Agent的P2P协作模型恰好弥补了传统系统的缺陷.以此模型为基础设计出一套网络教学系统.