Coordination in Hinterland Transport Chains

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn R. Van Der Horst ◽  
Peter W. de Langen
Keyword(s):  
Hinterland Transport

Hinterland transport chains

2017 ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Talley Wayne K.
Keyword(s):  
Hinterland Transport

scholarly journals Inland Shipping to Serve the Hinterland: The Challenge for Seaport Authorities

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Kotowska ◽  
Marta Mańkowska ◽  
Michał Pluciński
Keyword(s):  
Design Method ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Modal Shift ◽  
Inland Waterways ◽  
Promotion Policy ◽  
Hinterland Transport

The competitiveness of seaports is predominantly affected by factors external to the ports themselves, connected mainly with the quality of the hinterland and foreland infrastructure. Measures taken in these areas are reflected in the main objectives of the port strategies. Concurrently, the measures may have adverse environmental impacts (pollutant emissions, noise, land occupancy, etc.) and deteriorate the life quality of the port city’s communities. Therefore, measures taken by seaport authorities to improve their competitiveness must also heed the idea of sustainable development (sustainable port strategy). The answer to this challenge is the idea of green ports, being an element of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies of seaports. One of the elements of this concept is promoting more environmentally friendly transport modes/transport chains in serving the hinterland as an alternative to road transport. Inland shipping is the most environmentally friendly and also cost-competitive mode of transport. Therefore, a modal shift from road to inland waterways is one of the elements of the European Union sustainable transport policy, as well as also gaining importance in the development policies of seaport authorities as an element of a green port strategy. However, this issue has been relatively rarely addressed in the seaport economics literature. In particular, there has been a lack of studies that would make it possible to answer the question of what kind of action should be taken by seaport authorities in order to increase the share of inland shipping in hinterland transport. This article aimed to develop a concept of a promotion policy to be applied by seaport authorities to increase the share of inland shipping in hinterland transport. The study used the elements of a multiple case study design method which included the following seaports: Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, and the Marseilles–Fos port complex. This article was dedicated to identifying, analyzing, and classifying the policies implemented by these European seaports to promote inland waterway transportation. The research showed that these actions were quite similar in terms of their scope. The actions were classified as external and internal initiatives. The most common external actions included initiatives that improved the quality of inland waterways and the quality of shipping connections with the hinterland. Internal initiatives focused on improving the port’s infrastructure for barges and on implementing an appropriate information policy. The presented concept of a promotion policy can be a road map for all port authorities aiming to improve the quality of inland shipping as a mode of hinterland transport.

scholarly journals Information on Resource Utilisation for Operational Planning in Port Hinterland Transport

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-487
Author(s):  
Per Wide ◽  
Violeta Roso
Keyword(s):  
Freight Transport ◽  
Operational Planning ◽  
Resource Utilisation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Transport Chain ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Efficient Level ◽  
Hinterland Transport ◽  
High Level

To meet increased freight flows through maritime ports, a high level of resource utilisation in hinterland transport is of crucial importance. However, various perspectives on resource utilisation create issues with use of information for operational decisions in port hinterland. The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of information related to resource utilisation for operational planning in port hinterland freight transport to facilitate its improvement. The study is case-based, and the data is collected through semi-structured interviews, visual observations, and company documents. The findings are analysed with a framework built from literature emphasising different resource utilisation perspectives and the use of information in road freight transport chain decisions. The findings show that the use of information on resource utilisation in operational freight transport decisions in the port hinterland transport system is limited and lacks a complete system overview. Instead of the information on measured parameters, different types of estimates of efficiency parameters (including resource utilisation) are commonly used for operational planning decisions. The information about the measured indicators has to be combined with other information to obtain an efficient level of resource utilisation; otherwise, it could generate incorrect assumptions regarding utilisation. The paper contributes to the topic of operational freight transport planning by describing the use of information on resource utilisation.

scholarly journals Port-hinterland transport and logistics: emerging trends and frontier research

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behzad Behdani ◽  
Bart Wiegmans ◽  
Violeta Roso ◽  
Hercules Haralambides
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Hinterland Transport

Ship, port and supply chain security concepts interlinking maritime with hinterland transport chains

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eberhard Blümel ◽  
Wando Boevé ◽  
Valerio Recagno ◽  
Gerhard Schilk
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Security ◽  
Hinterland Transport

scholarly journals Dry Port Terminal Location Selection by Applying the Hybrid Grey MCDM Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6983
Author(s):  
Snežana Tadić ◽  
Mladen Krstić ◽  
Violeta Roso ◽  
Nikolina Brnjac
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Location Selection ◽  
Logistics Network ◽  
Logistics Networks ◽  
Sustainable Logistics ◽  
Global Logistics ◽  
Hinterland Transport ◽  
Selection Of

Globalization and decentralization of production generate the intensive growth of goods and transport flows, mostly performed by the maritime transport. Ports, as the main nodes in the global logistics networks, are becoming congested, space for their expansion limited, and traffic in their hinterland congested. As a solution to these and many other hinterland-transport-related problems stands out the development of dry port (DP) terminals. Selection of their location is one of the most important strategic decisions on which depends their competitiveness in the market and the functionality of the logistics network. Accordingly, the evaluation and selection of locations for the development of the DP in accordance with the requirements of various stakeholders is performed in this paper, as a prerequisite for the establishment of an ecological, economic, and socially sustainable logistics network in the observed area. To solve this problem, a new hybrid model of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) that combines Delphi, AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process), and CODAS (Combinative Distance-based Assessment) methods in a grey environment is developed. The main contributions of this paper are the defined model, the problem-solving approach based on finding a compromise solution, simultaneous consideration of the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of the DP concept and its implementation in the regional international markets. The applicability of the approach and the defined MCDM model is demonstrated by solving a real-life case study of ranking the potential DP locations in the Western Balkans region. Based on the obtained results, it is concluded that in the current market conditions, it would be most realistic to open three DP terminals, in Zagreb, Ljubljana, and Belgrade.

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