ICT for Cooperative Supply Chain Visibility within a Port Centric Intermodal Setting: The Case of the Thessaloniki Port-Rail-Dryport Integration

Abstract

Although ICT applications in transport and logistics have gone a long way especially in the past decade, supply chain visibility still remains a challenging issue to be tackled. This is especially important in the case of a Med port-rail-dryport setting, as the FutureMed project testifies. Cooperative action of the supply chain actors involved in such a setting is required to solve the informational and ICT integration problems that still exist. This is the case of FutureMed’s Greek (actually involving Greece and Balkans) pilot, which is currently at its preparatory phase. The present article initiates by placing supply chain visibility within its wider context and proceeds to the description of the Greek pilot aiming at enhancing such visibility by the use of ICT.