The port as an interface: Comments on the use of its in European ports
KIDD ; STUMM ; ATHANASSIOS
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
KIDD ; STUMM ; ATHANASSIOS
Résumé / Abstract
Ports are important intermodal nodes in the supply chains as they allow for the goods to be moved from one transport mode to another - but for this to occur several actors have to come to an agreement. In this paper we draw together the results of three studies over a period of years: we note early reluctance to take-up of it in firms in Cyprus and in mainland Greece. A recent survey of firms in the port of Piraeus, Greece, and fact finding about the use of it in over one hundred maritime and inland waterway ports across Europe. The evidence gathered in this paper is quite sartling: first, except for some isolated enterprises, it was found there was reluctance to take-up it in Cyprus and mainland Greece other than for simple administrative tasks. Second this finding is currently echoed in the port of Piraeus where today many enterprises vital to the port's operations are still relying on written or verbal communications, not on electronic data interchange (EDI). Third, throughout the European Union it was found that port community partners may be typified as having hardware and software that are too old. And generally in it supported port enterprises they have too few it-trained staff to maintain their it operations.
