Reducing Anchorage in Ports: Changing Technologies, Opportunities and Challenges

Developments in digitisation and the need to reduce carbon emissions have increased attention on port call optimisation. Just-in-time arrival for ships is recognised literature as being achieved more readily container trades than bulk trades. This paper examines governance trade logistics conditions of Vancouver, Canada, increasing number at anchor gives rise explore absence initiatives limit anchorage identify what done elsewhere manage incidence anchorage. Newcastle, Australia, used critical factors that played a role development innovative practices The major obstacles optimisation lie organisational behavioural aspects maritime logistics, not technology digitisation.