Banca de DEFESA: THIAGO DE ALMEIDA RODRIGUES

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : THIAGO DE ALMEIDA RODRIGUES
DATE: 03/03/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Online
TITLE:

DRY PORTS DEVELOPMENT IN SEAPORT-HINTERLAND NETWORK: risk assessment approach and shipping cost optimization to aid decision-making

KEY WORDS:

seaport-hinterland network; dry ports; risk management; container shipping cost; cost model optimization.

PAGES: 204
BIG AREA: Engenharias
AREA: Engenharia de Produção
SUMMARY:

Maritime transportation has played a huge and important role in connecting global trade in goods. Such relevance has been evidenced by the outstanding increase of containerized dry cargo transportation, which has putting enormous pressure to bear upon container terminals’ efficiency. Particularly challenging are seaport-hinterland issues which entail broader inland geographical distribution of seaport operations. In this context, dry ports infrastructures have emerged as an option to fix efficiency problems in seaports, optimizing the shipping network of goods. Despite the relevance of such logistic infrastructure, dry ports facilities developments are not aware of failures, especially regarding the transitions from ‘project’ to ‘operations’ phases. Considering the perspective of importers/exporters, another critical issue remains in the service provider choice decision-making, which may vary according to specificities of each customer. Bearing this in mind, this thesis seeks to attend three main topics: (i) to make an overall discussion on seaport-hinterland subject, especially regarding dry ports developments; (ii) to assess the risk factors weighting and interdependences in dry ports’ projects transition phase from multiple-stakeholders perspective; and (iii) to propose a flexible cost model to aid customer to select their services providers into the seaport-hinterland. Toward these objectives, the thesis was developed aggregating multiple complementary articles, in which eight papers on the subject of seaport-hinterland and dry ports were presented in adapted versions. As practical contribution, the thesis presented a framework to enhance the efficiency of dry ports in the Brazilian context and highlighted the main factors which could affect the shipping cost. Moreover, the results also evidenced for managers and policy makers in which case dry ports or seaports seems to become the best option in terms of cost. Academically, this thesis enhances the literature of dry port developments, proposing a typology of risks for dry port ‘project’ to ‘operations’ transitions comprising eight interdependent risk factors. Lastly, the study also discusses the competitiveness environment throughout the main actors in the seaport-hinterland in light of the literature, bringing relevant insights for all stakeholders and practitioners.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO AUGUSTO SILVA MARINS
Externo à Instituição - MAXWELL CHIPULU
Presidente - 1510962 - CAROLINE MARIA DE MIRANDA MOTA
Interno - 1549303 - CRISTIANO ALEXANDRE VIRGINIO CAVALCANTE
Interna - 1551036 - LUCIANA HAZIN ALENCAR