The Sulphur Cap in Maritime Supply Chains - Environmental Regulations in European Logistics

This book examines the current and controversial topic of the sulphur cap in maritime supply chains, a new regulation set to be enforced in 2020. The author presents extensive research on three northern countries - Finland, Sweden and Estonia - and the effects they felt when these regulations were rolled out in 2015. These regional case studies are presented alongside extensive private sector data, annual reports and interviews to assess and forecast how the maritime supply chain will cope with rising costs and alternative approaches to environmental regulations. This book includes advanced regression analyses alongside interactive simulation models for the reader to evaluate new supply chain strategies and study the effects of these regulations.

List of contents

1 Introduction.- 2 General Economic and Trade Environment.- 3 Was Sulphur Regulation the Reason for the Growth of Unitized Cargo between Finland and Estonia?.- 4 Unitized Cargo: Growing Truck-Based Volumes at the Sea Ports of Estonia, Sweden and Finland.- 5 Maritime Supply Chains: How They Experienced Regulation Change.- 6 Longitudinal Survey Findings from Northern Europe.- 7 Simulation of Different Supply Chain Strategies.- 8 Conclusions.

About the author

Olli-Pekka Hilmola is Professor of Logistics at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland. His research focuses on industrial management, supply chain management, system dynamics and transportation systems and he has published over 300 publications, including books, conference proceedings and articles. Professor Hilmola is currently on the editorial board of several international journals and published Supply Chain Cases with Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.

Product details

• Authors: Olli-Pekka Hilmola
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2018
• EAN: 9783319985442
• ISBN: 978-3-31-998544-2
• No. of pages: 143
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 15 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 344 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 143 p. 53 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, Umweltmanagement, C, Business and Management, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Environmental Management, Management science, Environmental management,, Sustainability Management, Business & the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Industrial management—Environmental aspects, Business logistics, Corporate Environmental Management