Expertise modeling and transportation risk management: an application to container transportation security risk management

Abstract

Due to the globalization of trade, hundreds of millions containers pass every year through world ports. Such a situation is extremely challenging in terms of securing freight transport operations. However, costs and lead-times are still very important components of supply chains' performance models. Therefore, the drive for enhanced safety and security cannot be made at the expense of these other two factors of competitiveness, and the processes implemented by the global supply chain links, including the maritime port one, should tend to a joint optimization of trade facilitation and operational safety / security.

The research on which this paper feeds back falls within the frame of this mixed performance requirement. More specifically, the paper presents a decision-support system dedicated to managing the risks associated with land and maritime container transportation; this system is based on the modeling of the knowledge of a group of experts, and covers the three phases of risk identification, assessment and avoidance / mitigation.

Citation

Froufe, S., Gningue, M. and Fredouet, C. (2014), "Expertise modeling and transportation risk management: an application to container transportation security risk management", Journal of International Logistics and Trade, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 75-97. https://doi.org/10.24006/jilt.2014.12.1.75