Abstract
The importance of port clusters to a global city may be viewed from a number of perspectives. The development of port clusters and economies of agglomeration and their contribution to a regional economy is underpinned by information and physical infrastructure that facilitates collaboration between business entities within the cluster. The maturity of technologies providing portals, web and middleware services provides an opportunity to push the boundaries of contemporary service reference models and service catalogues to what the authors propose to be “collaboration services”. Servicing port clusters, portal engineers of the future must consider collaboration services to benefit a region. Particularly, service orchestration through a “public user portal” must gain better utilisation of publically owned infrastructure, to share knowledge and collaborate among organisations through information systems.
Highlights
A “global city” is one where money, workers, information and commodities flow thereby linking economic relations between surrounding regions and the global economy there is general consensus that this involves the city’s liveability characteristics as well as its global performance attributes
This paper presents the need to extend the boundaries of existing Service Catalogues by the development of a taxonomy of collaboration services in the development of a port cluster portal
The previous sections of this paper have identified areas of technology areas that are mature; firstly, portal platforms that are capable of dynamic service alignment that preserve the business processes which are private to individual businesses, and exposing only public messages between stakeholders
Summary
A “global city” is one where money, workers, information and commodities flow thereby linking economic relations between surrounding regions and the global economy there is general consensus that this involves the city’s liveability characteristics as well as its global performance attributes. In seeking to identify the unique characteristics or specific attributes a city must possess to be recognised as a global city, more recent views place far less emphasis on the city’s particular status, role and functions and far greater emphasis on their networks in which key ports are nodes. This is a conceptual paper that proposes a collaboration service model that builds upon the arguments of Robinson (2002) that the port must go beyond being “territorially embedded” in supply chains where third party logistical service providers generate, share and compete with other players in a supply chain. This paper presents the need to extend the boundaries of existing Service Catalogues by the development of a taxonomy of collaboration services in the development of a port cluster portal
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