Circular City Ports - Workbook

02 Investigating city ports Seven key issues
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5 Today transition toward sustainable logistics
is conceived as the constitution of new infrastructure
New, smart logistics services and connections are
required in order to collect, distribute and process
incoming and outgoing flows to and from the city.
How we organise our logistics (related to flows) can
be defined by chain optimization and the type of
flow that is handled - which can be either collected
in large quantities and low qualities (volume optimization),
or rather in small quantities and high
quality (mono-stream). On the one hand there is an
efficient collecting system required, in order to separate,
collect and distribute flows coming from the
city. On the other hand, there is the system of the
port that can fulfil either a function of transhipment
or processing, depending on the flow.
The city ports are of strategic importance here, as it
is located on the cross-point between the collecting
and distribution system of the city, and the transhipment
and/or processing function of the port.
Chain optimization tries to avoid rising costs, related
to working hours, (fuel costs), the amount of
transhipment, need for large infrastructures and the
speed and frequency of this transhipment. Herein,
smart logistics relates to the new technologies and
smart organisation of logistics that formulate an answer
to these challenges.
How will we organize and facilitate within the
port in and out flows in a sustainable manner?