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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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | 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 |
| Summary: | 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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