Abstract
In the modern era, the ports’ Supply Chains (SCs) are the blood veins of global trade and subject to protection in political crisis and warfighting. Nowadays, these ports’ SCs (e.g., container management, vehicle transport, liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and transport, cruising) are very complex, diverse and involve many cross border partners (e.g., governmental bodies, maritime companies, airports, railways, energy providers, banks, transport/logistic companies) operating within their SCs having physical and cyber multi-interdependencies, interacting with all sectors of economy. For example, most physical processes in ports (e.g., vehicles and cargo loading/unloading, LNG distribution and storage) are executed with autonomous or semiautonomous systems under the control of sophisticated logistic software systems (e.g., Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, SCADA). These cyber-physical systems are connected around the world through cyberspace with other SC operators (e.g., ship industry, trading, transport, maritime, and logistics companies) to ensure a seamless and swift data exchange and with that swift and seamless trade from the producer down to the end consumer.
Associate Professor Nineta Polemi served as technical and project manager of the European projects CYSM, MEDUSA, and MITIGATE.
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This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 653212, project MITIGATE . The authors also thank all partners of these projects. Finally, special thanks to University of Piraeus, Research Center for its continuous support.
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Polemi, N., Papastergiou, S. (2017). Assessing the Risk of Ports and Their Supply Chains: The CYSM, MEDUSA, and MITIGATE Approaches. In: Carayannis, E., Campbell, D., Efthymiopoulos, M. (eds) Handbook of Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber-Defense. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06091-0_53-1
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