ICT for Cooperative Supply Chain Visibility within a Port Centric Intermodal Setting: The Case of the Thessaloniki Port-Rail-Dryport Integration

Abstract

Although ICT applications in transport and logistics have gone a long way especially in the past decade, supply chain visibility still remains a challenging issue to be tackled. This is especially important in the case of a Med port-rail-dryport setting, as the FutureMed project testifies. Cooperative action of the supply chain actors involved in such a setting is required to solve the informational and ICT integration problems that still exist. This is the case of FutureMed’s Greek (actually involving Greece and Balkans) pilot, which is currently at its preparatory phase. The present article initiates by placing supply chain visibility within its wider context and proceeds to the description of the Greek pilot aiming at enhancing such visibility by the use of ICT.

Keywords:

• ICT
• ports
• rail
• maritime
• visibility

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Notes on contributors

G. Eliza

Ms Eliza Gagatsi, MSc Transport Engineer is a Research Associate of HIT. She is a Dipl. Civil Engineer with MSc in Transportation and a scholarship awarded PhD candidate. Her main fields of expertise are freight transport and logistics as well as maritime transportation with a particular focus on policy related research, field that is examined within the frame of her PhD research on the Greek and European Maritime Transport Policy. Since 2010 she is Head of Freight Transport and Logistics Unit at HIT-CERTH.

A. Nikos

Dr. Nikos Athanasopoulos is Strategic Planning Senior Advisor at TRAINOSE S.A., the Greek railway operating company.

V. George

Dr. George Vaggelas is advisor to the President and CEO of the Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. He holds a BSc (Shipping & Enterpreneurship), an MSc in Shipping Trade and Transport (STT), and a Phd, from the School of Business, University of the Aegean, Greece.

A. Georgia

Dr. Georgia Aifadopoulou is a senior researcher at the Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) in the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT). Her professional and research expertise covers the fields of: Freight transport & Logistics, Traffic & Mobility Management, Transport Systems Optimization and ICT applications in Maritime and Multimodal Transport. She holds a civil engineer diploma, Master degrees in Operations Research and in Transport Management and a PhD in Freight Transport Optimization.

M. Maria

Dr. Maria Morfoulaki, Dipl. Civil Engineer AUTh, Transport, is Researcher of HIT. Until now she has worked in many Research Programs and Transport Studies as Transport Consultant while from October 2001 she is working as Researcher of the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT). She specializes in sustainable transport enhancement projects, traffic forecasts using transport models and network simulation but she is also interested in fields of Public Transport Systems, Road Safety and Freight Transports.