Abstract
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 in the literature as being achieved more readily in container trades than in bulk trades. This paper examines the governance and trade logistics conditions in the bulk trades of Vancouver, Canada, as the increasing number of ships at anchor gives rise to the need to explore the absence of initiatives to limit anchorage and to identify what is done elsewhere to manage the incidence of anchorage. Newcastle, Australia, is used to identify critical governance and logistics factors that played a role in the development of innovative practices to reduce anchorage. The major obstacles to port call optimisation lie in the organisational and behavioural aspects of maritime logistics, not in the technology of digitisation.
Highlights
The period that the world has grappled with the Covid pandemic has put a spotlight on change
Vancouver is used as a case study to describe the structural, contractual and policy conditions affecting logistics and anchorage in a port which is not pursuing a port call optimisation (PCO) strategy
When NPA is confident of a vessel’s progress, usually 7 days out, a Notified Arrival Time (NAT) places the vessel in the coal loading queue. This has been taken as the Notice of Readiness (NOR) under most contracts as exporters and terminals trust NAT, the terminals maintain performance records of the ships calling and expect coal to be available for loading
Summary
The period that the world has grappled with the Covid pandemic has put a spotlight on change. Periods of change are commonly driven by the interaction of innovations in technology with human ingenuity Such was the case fifty years ago as logistics management transitioned from a military concept to industrial practice and subsequently morphed into supply chain management. The experience in the dry bulk trades of these ports provides an opportunity to identify challenges to the adoption of measures to reduce anchorage and to identify strategies to advance their adoption. Vancouver is used as a case study to describe the structural, contractual and policy conditions affecting logistics and anchorage in a port which is not pursuing a PCO strategy. The final section draws on the conditions in the two ports to identify challenges to reducing anchorage and to suggest strategies that may lead to improved performance
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