Digitalization of Seaports based on Enterprise Architecture approach

A A Lepekhin,A I Levina,S E Kalyazina,J Weigell,A S Dubgorn

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/940/1/012023

Abstract

Global economy and era of digitalization poses great pressure on development of different enterprises. Businesses have to be complied with newest technologies and focus on efficiency of their management system. Seaports are complicated business systems, which are becoming global hubs for different stakeholders to exchange data within complex infrastructure. Digitalization of such complex systems requires a coherent approach, aiming to summon managerial and digitalization goals. The key concept to create a digital-based system of business processes is the concept of IT-services, which are characterized to be a support of business functions. The goals of this research paper is to adapt standard of Enterprise Architecture and create a coherent system of business processes for container terminals and suggest a set of IT-services, which could be further transformed into a complex Applications Architecture of seaport. This Applications Architecture can be further built up with modern digital technologies and information systems of different types.

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This research paper is aiming to provide a coherent overview of existing IT-services for container terminal and hinterland processes and operations and describe the insights of the current state of digital architecture in different container terminals all over the world.The necessity and additional value of the paper for research and industrial application is caused by a rapid transformation of traditional business models into digital-based models on one hand and the growing role of maritime logistics and increasing vessel dimensions on the other hand
The goals of this research paper is to adapt standard of Enterprise Architecture and create a coherent system of business processes for container terminals and suggest a set of ITservices, which could be further transformed into a complex Applications Architecture of seaport
Overall increase in container shipment operations in global logistics and supply chain management and increasing vessel dimensions caused a significant growth of container turnover and emerging requirements to container logistics processes

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The necessity and additional value of the paper for research and industrial application is caused by a rapid transformation of traditional business models into digital-based models on one hand and the growing role of maritime logistics and increasing vessel dimensions on the other hand. These factors lead to great pressure on container terminal systems: the speed of operations, process efficiency, forms of information exchanges as well as security. Container terminals have to act as global hubs, integrating operations of different stakeholders by providing efficient IT-architecture to support all the existing processes.

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