A System Dynamics Model for Analyzing the Collaborative Maritime Transportation

This paper aims to present a model to analyze the systemic effects arising from the collaboration policies among the manufacturing industries, which use the maritime transportation to execute the exportation. It was researched about the Collaborative Logistics era and the Collaborative Transportation Management and, in order to validate the study proposal and to obtain data to insert in the model. Some interviews were executed to entrepreneurs and specialists. Subsequently, it was performed a study about Agent Based Modeling and Simulation and System Dynamics. The proposed model using SD contributed to the analysis of the systemic effects arising from the collaboration policies among the manufacturing industries, which strengthen the bargain power if acting allied to each other, and have the power to influence the maritime freight rate reduction. This work contributed to the comprehension of the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to deal with the maritime transportation problems.