The Global Institute of Logistics, while promoting collaboration between all parities within the global supply chain, studies each stakeholder as an individual component within that supply chain. The idea is to build up a body of best practices which can be used by all players within that vertical globally in order to improve global logistics. These study groups are made up of a cross section of leading academics which the Institute have identified as thought leaders, together with leading industry executives within the vertical.
This peer group, moderated by the Institute, acts as a Knowledge network through which members Share, Learn and Benchmark their unique experiences with other group members. The Institute captures this data and packages it in a variety of outputs and transformation tools which are then made available to members and the industry at large.
Despite the well articulated importance of the role of the Port Authority within the global supply chain, there has been very little research into the experience of port authorities concerning how integration can be achieved. In 2008/09 saw the formational of a committee to formally study the subject and to provide a forum for the sharing of best practice.
Membership of this forum is now available to all parties and will be known as the Global Port Study Group.
The aim of the Global Port Study Group is to;
- Examine trends and future of port communities
- Enhance the diffusion of the excellence philosophy in port community
- Connect people who know with those who need to know
- Generate and synthesize knowledge
- Develop networking opportunities
- Obtain new ideas from various port community types and various countries
- Reviewing the relevant literature on supply chain integration and port integration in the supply chain
- Conceptualize measures for port/terminal integration in the supply chain
- Empirically test the influence of port/terminal integration in the supply chain on port competitiveness
- Outline the significance and value of the study for port operators, shipping lines, transport providers and for further research
The work will emphasize an exchange of information on the development of best practice in ports as part of the global maritime logistics industry.
OBJECTIVES
- The objective of the Global Port Study Group is to devise research programs to analyze the growing use of ports as an aid to supply chain facilitation.
- The objective of the GPSG is to become the preeminent think tank in the discipline and will start its work with the publication of the Institute’s Operation Port Unity report on port community governance from the point of view of the port authority.
- The purpose of the book is to document, debate with and educate the global maritime logistics industry, and in particular global port controllers, on a new way of seeing port management and will be updated annually.
BENEFITS
Participation in the Global Port Study Group gives individuals and their organization these benefits:
- Gain access to the experience of other individuals
- Obtain new ideas from various stakeholders across various countries
- Opportunity to influence best practice in port community strategy through representation
- Global benchmarking, best practice, knowledge sharing
- A network for identifying common issues and problems, and developing solutions
- Provides practitioners with an international forum for peer group networking, discussion and learning on latest developments in port community strategy
- The Global Port Study Group will discuss and initiate activities, which stimulate and sustain the successful business development of port communities
CRITERIA
The criteria for membership are that participating Port Authorities:
- Wish to contribute to an on-going dialogue within its peer group.
- Wish to engage in an ongoing dialogue in pursuit of best practice.
- Wish to inculcate best practice within their own organizations.
- Wish to contribute to the knowledge base driving port governance in the global maritime logistics industry.
- Wish to promote relationship excellence between stakeholders as the key driver in global logistics.
- Wish to co-operate with any global organization aiming at the same objectives by establishing lines of communication.
HOW TO JOIN
Access to these outputs is reserved for members of the GPSG and GIL. The cost to join is EUR€8,000 and US$12,000.
The membership package includes:
- Corporate membership of GIL
- Supporting Public Relations package
- Use of GIL logo
- Press Release, etc.
- Membership of GPSG
- Online access for up to five users to the GPSG centre
- Monthly newsletter
- Annual port study research report
- Passes for five delegates at WPSF
- Access to the GPSG transformation tools
- Discount on Executive Education
To process your application please contact Gareth at ceo@globeinst.org
