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The memorial photographs are
shown at Album webpage.
Background
As
world economies become ever more globalised and interlinked,
international logistics and maritime (shipping and port) industries
are experiencing a number of challenges as well as facing greater
business opportunities. Having acknowledging the above, the
2007
Conference was
held at Kainan University in Taiwan, 29-30 March. The Asian
Logistics Round Table (ALRT) was launched in the conjunction with
the Conference to discuss recent developments and trends, current
issues and future challenges in the logistics and maritime
industries from an Asian perspective, and to work together towards
solving those identified issues, challenges and problems in the
region.
ALRT is
expected to strengthen and promote academic and research
collaborations through a number of exchange programmes in the field
of logistics including shipping and port, based upon the principles
of mutual equality and benefit. In addition, the Round Table is
working closely with the region¡¦s logistics industry in order to
address and resolve daily practical issues faced by the industry.
Those
attended at its inaugural meeting and joined in signing of MOU of
ALRT are as follows:
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Professor
Jong-Kil Kim,
Director of Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics
and Trade, Inha University, Korea
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Professor
Young-Tae Chang, Secretary-General of GU8 Consortium and Graduate
School of Logistics, Inha University, Korea
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Professor
Kamonchanok Suthiwartnarueput, Director, Logistics Management
Programme, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
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Professor K.
Raguraman, Deputy Director, Centre for Maritime Studies, National
University of Singapore, Singapore.
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Assistant Professor
Meifeng Luo, Department of Logistics, Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hong Kong.
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Associate Professor
Michael Sutton, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan
University, Japan.
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Professor
Mariner Wang, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
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Professor Paul
Lee, Department of Logistics and Shipping, Kainan University,
Taiwan.
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Professor
Yong-Hwa Park, Asia Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University,
Korea.
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Dr Tao Chen,
Department of Logistics and Shipping, Kainan University,
Taiwan.
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Dr Jasmine
Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Three more institutes in
Europe ¡V University of Antwerp in Belgium, Napier and Heriot-Watt
Universities in the UK ¡V have recently agreed to join the ALRT.
Following the 2007 Conference, the organizers have been already
working towards the 2008 Conference at the same venue during 28-29
March 2008, under the theme of ¡§Maritime
Logistics in Global Supply Chain¡¨,
in conjunction with the 2nd ALRT.
Conference Theme ¡V ¡§Maritime Logistics in Global
Supply Chain¡¨
As the primary means of
transporting parts and finished goods (viz., outbound logistics) in
the global scale, the maritime logistics has recently attracted an
increasing attention from academics. However, its precise
definition, scopes and roles within the global supply chain network
are yet to be established. In an effort to have a better
understanding those matters, it might be useful to consider the
underlying scope and characteristics of two overlapped terms
(maritime transport, and logistics and supply chain management).
Maritime Transport (shipping
and port) is largely concerned with the movement of goods and/or
passengers between two seaports by sea. On the other hand, it has
been difficult to make a clear definition of the term Maritime
Logistics. Logistics and supply chain management is generally
referred to the functions responsible for the flow of materials from
suppliers into an organization, through a number of operations in
the middle within the organization and then reaching to customers.
It is truly consisted of a series of activities along the line of
network concerned.
The convergence of ¡¥maritime
transport¡¦ and ¡¥maritime logistics¡¦ can be attributed to the
physical integration of modes of transport facilitated by
containerization and the evolving demands of end-users that require
the application of logistics concepts to the modes and the
achievement of logistics goals. In this process, a number of issues
are still in demand for further elaboration and debates from an
academic perspective. This Conference will provide a timely
opportunity and channel for such requirements.
Conference Date
Friday 28 ¡V Saturday 29
March, 2008
Conference Venue
International Conference
Hall, Kainan University, Taiwan
Publication for The 2008 ISL Conference
Selective papers presented
to the conference are considered for inclusion at a special issue
of the International Journal of Logistics: Research and
Applications, which is to be published in the second issue of
the Journal in 2009.