The Future of Maritime trade in 2020 and the implications for the port of Amsterdam
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Team Members:
- Maria Marcos
- Mirjam Terhorst
- Andreas Schuil
- Eduard de Visser
- David Verberne
Driving forces:
New Driving forces:
- Piracy
- Containerization
- Maritime Transportation security
- Consumer’s responsibility CO2 footprint
- Consumer/customer demands regarding speed of service/delivery
- Improvement through inventions
- Technical Innovation in the supply chain
- International Trade of goods
- The cost of freight shipping
- Building ‘green’
- Increase of Marine Pollution
Existing driving forces:
- Influence of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Increasing Use of e-Commerce
- Global Warming
- The increasing globalization of markets
Research Questions:
- How have shipping rates developed as per the recession?
- What’s the difference between deep sea and short-sea shipping?
- What are the current other (competing) methods of small vessel shipping transport (i.e. short-sea shipping)?
- What currency dominates what shipping market?
- What is the SEEMP?
- How is maritime trade developing over the last decades?
- What is the impact of containerization?
- What are the main ports in Europe?
- What are ship size developments?
- What are security issues in maritime trade?
- What is RFID?
- What is the trend of world imports and its forecast?
- What is the trend of world exports and its forecast?
- What is the trend of the industrial production of advance economies?
- What is the trend of the world consumer prices?
- What is TEU?
- What are the top European container ports?
- What are the top European liquid bulk ports?
- On what criteria is a port selected?
- What are the effects of the financial crisis on the world trade in 2009?
- What developments in Port performance can we observe?
- How does the Logistics supply chain look like?
- Environmental improvements in maritime shipping
Systems Diagram
Systems Diagram: 1st version