New trends in maritime transportation and port activity

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Maritime Transportation and Port Logistics

Maritime Transportation: Drivers for the Shipping and Port Industries

Maritime transport is composed of the maritime shipping and the ports dimensions. Areas of focus include establishing a vision for the future of maritime transport; identifying the innovative technologies, business models and policies that will drive change; overcoming barriers to innovation; and establishing governance structures at the global and national levels to foster the innovations that...

Visual surveillance in maritime port facilities

In this work we propose a method for securing port facilities which uses a set of video cameras to automatically detect various vessel classes moving within buffer zones and off-limit areas. Vessels are detected by an edge-enhanced spatiotemporal optimal trade-off maximum average correlation height filter which is capable of discriminating between vessel classes while allowing for intra-class v...

Bottleneck-Analysis on Intermodal Maritime Transportation Chains

Scenario analysis often is used to determine bottlenecks in multimodal transportation and logistics chains. Bottleneck-analysis itself is a process related approach to identify shortages in multimodal transportation and logistics supply chains, and concerned with analysis of resource planes, optimization of multimodal transportation chains, consideration of timeliness and concurrency using reso...

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