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The EUROBORDER consortium developed a project programme, that focused specifically on small and medium size ports (SMPs), on port terminals as the node in the transport chain and on unitised cargo (LoLo, RoRo). The aim was to study potential improvements in information exchange, the organisational structure and administrative routines in the terminal and its relations to its customers and the rest of the port community. Information was understood as the tool to support organisation and administration.
Based on the problem and bottleneck analysis EUROBORDER developed improvement scenarios for the four case study ports. The scenarios suggest to raise efficiency and competitiveness via:
- Networking of terminal departments,
- Electronic data interchange for communications on a large scale,
- On-line monitoring of movements throughout the terminal,
- Automatic data capture and data handling within the terminal,
- Other organisational changes, e.g. longer opening hours,
- Changes in port terminal layout
- Changes for the interaction with customs and
- Acquisition of new terminal equipment.
The proposed scenarios largely change the administrative routines of port terminals (and to some extent the routines of their customers) and their organisational structure. If all tools from the EUROBORDER scenarios were combined, this would lead to a fully automatic terminal, with up-to-date control over the cargo and its status and electronic communication to all customers and other port organisations.
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