| Title | The Planning of Logistic Information Services for Maritime and Air Cargo Transportation |
| Dept | Transportation Technology and Information Division |
| Year | 2012 |
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| Summary | Cargo transportation is the backbone of national economic development, as well as an important part of the government transport policy. From this research’s global plan of logistics services via maritime transport and air transport, an intelligent and paperless environment is built to facilitate international logistics services. These not only meet the needs of national policy, but also align with the goals of the structure of APEC’s supply chain connectivity.
There are four major issues involved or investigated in this research, which are (1) attending the annual APEC Transportation Working Group Meeting to learn about the latest developments in regards to supply chain related issues, and to develop participating strategies for the transportation sector on this subject; (2) gathering information about standards, current status and future trends from the operational process and information systems’ point of view from related international organizations, airports, and harbors; (3) according to the information collected regarding the current status of national logistics services via maritime and air transport and the on-going national single window project, to propose the next step for the logistics information services improvement program; and (4) applying relevant technologies, such as cloud computing, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), RFID and wireless communications, to develop an intelligent logistics information service cloud with overall planning in order to ensure logistics safety and efficiency. The main conclusions of this study are summarized as follows: Logistics information service providers currently put more emphasis on commercial transactions between shippers and logistics industry, and less attention is given to the development of single window projects and linkages to other international service platforms. Facing the increasing complexity of international logistics, providing more flexibility in logistic services will be required, while cloud computing in logistics information must improve to play the crucial role of ensuring efficiency and competitiveness. The next generation of logistic information service concepts has been developed by adopting the technology of GNSS and cloud computing. Furthermore, through the establishment of mutually beneficial mechanisms with foreign logistics information service providers and alignment with APEC supply chain visibility, an extension of the visibility of the supply chain from “door to port” or from “port to door” to “door to door” can be expected. |
| Post date | 2012/10/04 |
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