The general aims of this research area are to understand the process of sea cargo in the context of Singapore, the impact of flows and supply chains originating and ending at Singapore, and to investigate new technologies.
Planned Tasks
	Determine  volumes,  containers,  and  commodity  types  moving  by  sea  by origin-destination pairs. This includes shipments originating at the  Asia-Pacific region as well as shipments that are destined to that region.
	Determine  shipment  flow  and  trade t rends and the impact of economic and political status in countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
	Determine  major  sea  cargo  shippers  and  also  major  providers  of  service including  tankers, ocean  liners, forwarders, and third party logistics providers. Document their needs.
	Investigate  processes  for  all  participants  in the sea cargo supply chain. This work must encompass freight forwarders, ocean liners, sea ports, port authority, and customs.
	Investigate  container  flow  at  the  ports  and handoffs between forwarders and carriers  as  well  as  among  different  carriers. Document port bottlenecks and problems associated with port storage and clearance.
	Investigate  improvement  of  customer service and cycle time reduction through better  booking, shipment  tracking, invoicing, collection  of  funds, and  on-time deliveries.
	Investigate  the  use  of decision support systems,  information technology, and e-commerce in sea cargo.
	Identify follow-up research problems of interest to the industry.
Faulty Staff (NUS)   A/Prof Roland Yap Hock Chuan (Group Coordinator)   Dr Chew Ek Peng   Dr Lee Loo Hay
Research Engineer (NUS)   Puvaneswari Manikam
Faulty Staff (Georgia-Tech)   Dr Anton Kleywegt   A/Prof  Martin Savelsbergh   A/Prof  Paul Griffin