Accelerating Digitalization : Critical Actions to Strengthen the Resilience of the Maritime Supply Chain

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has upended lives and brought major disruption to economic activity across the world, precipitating an unprecedented global health and economic crisis. One of the key lessons learned early in the pan...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	MARITIME TRANSPORT DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CRISIS MANAGEMENT ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE PORT ADMINISTRATION PORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SMART PORT CYBERSECURITY CYBER RESILIENCE DIGITIZATION MARITIME TRADE
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spelling	okr-10986-350632021-09-21T13:45:32Z Accelerating Digitalization : Critical Actions to Strengthen the Resilience of the Maritime Supply Chain World Bank MARITIME TRANSPORT DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CRISIS MANAGEMENT ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE PORT ADMINISTRATION PORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SMART PORT CYBERSECURITY CYBER RESILIENCE DIGITIZATION MARITIME TRADE The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has upended lives and brought major disruption to economic activity across the world, precipitating an unprecedented global health and economic crisis. One of the key lessons learned early in the pandemic was the need to ensure business continuity of the critical supply lines, notably the maritime gateways, and the associated logistical chains. However, the maritime ports are also just one node in a complex logistical chain involving a number of interactions; digitization is vital to improving the competitiveness of that chain. A number of global organizations, such as United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), World Customs Organization (WCO), World Trade Organization (WTO), and International Maritime Organization (IMO) have been advocating the accelerated digitalization of cross-border processes and documentation. This report highlights the immediate, short-, and medium-term measures considered necessary to strengthen the resilience of the maritime and logistics sector, to build back better, and more importantly ensure countries realize the significant potential efficiency gains of digitization. This report underlines digitalization as not solely a technological issue, but also as human capital and institutional issues. Any move towards increased digitization will require a high level of political commitment, while the establishment must have an appropriate legal, regulatory, and policy framework at the national level, across the different disciplines of the maritime, port, clearance agencies, and the transport and logistics sector. 2021-01-27T19:29:47Z 2021-01-27T19:29:47Z 2020-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/886091611731721594/Accelerating-Digitalization-Critical-Actions-to-Strengthen-the-Resilience-of-the-Maritime-Supply-Chain http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35063 English Mobility and Transport Connectivity; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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spellingShingle	MARITIME TRANSPORT DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CRISIS MANAGEMENT ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE PORT ADMINISTRATION PORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SMART PORT CYBERSECURITY CYBER RESILIENCE DIGITIZATION MARITIME TRADE World Bank Accelerating Digitalization : Critical Actions to Strengthen the Resilience of the Maritime Supply Chain
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description	The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has upended lives and brought major disruption to economic activity across the world, precipitating an unprecedented global health and economic crisis. One of the key lessons learned early in the pandemic was the need to ensure business continuity of the critical supply lines, notably the maritime gateways, and the associated logistical chains. However, the maritime ports are also just one node in a complex logistical chain involving a number of interactions; digitization is vital to improving the competitiveness of that chain. A number of global organizations, such as United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), World Customs Organization (WCO), World Trade Organization (WTO), and International Maritime Organization (IMO) have been advocating the accelerated digitalization of cross-border processes and documentation. This report highlights the immediate, short-, and medium-term measures considered necessary to strengthen the resilience of the maritime and logistics sector, to build back better, and more importantly ensure countries realize the significant potential efficiency gains of digitization. This report underlines digitalization as not solely a technological issue, but also as human capital and institutional issues. Any move towards increased digitization will require a high level of political commitment, while the establishment must have an appropriate legal, regulatory, and policy framework at the national level, across the different disciplines of the maritime, port, clearance agencies, and the transport and logistics sector.
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title	Accelerating Digitalization : Critical Actions to Strengthen the Resilience of the Maritime Supply Chain
title_short	Accelerating Digitalization : Critical Actions to Strengthen the Resilience of the Maritime Supply Chain
title_full	Accelerating Digitalization : Critical Actions to Strengthen the Resilience of the Maritime Supply Chain
title_fullStr	Accelerating Digitalization : Critical Actions to Strengthen the Resilience of the Maritime Supply Chain
title_full_unstemmed	Accelerating Digitalization : Critical Actions to Strengthen the Resilience of the Maritime Supply Chain
title_sort	accelerating digitalization : critical actions to strengthen the resilience of the maritime supply chain
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/886091611731721594/Accelerating-Digitalization-Critical-Actions-to-Strengthen-the-Resilience-of-the-Maritime-Supply-Chain http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35063
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