The Assessment of Port Services Integration Within the Supply Chain. Connectivity Analysis Case on Constanta Port

Abstract

The importance of port services integration into the global supply chain has been broadly approached in a broad range of scientific papers. Considering its updated technical and technological perspectives, most of the previous studies have been focused on the conceptualization of port supply chain integration as part of the global logistic chain. The purpose of the study is meant to consequently disclose by extensive literature review, the most common indicators that measure the effectiveness of the port services as to further depict how deeply integrated are the ports as functional component within the global supply chain, using the selected key performances indicators. In general, these indicators are metrics set up to monitor the cost, value, service, and waste, to illustrate the gap between planning and execution into a company's supply chain, the article seeking to put together most of the useful indicators in case of assessing the port logistic integration into the supply chain. Apart to the literature review, another research purpose, was to point the port evaluation pursuance support, on the example of Constanta port, suggesting the way to follow for deeper analysis in logistic integrative perspective.