FERIAS - CONFERENCIAS Y EVENTOS

 

Del 4 al 5 de Febrero de 2003 Digital Ship Ltd, SECURITY IN CONTAINER SHIPPING Rotterdam Hilton, Feb 4-5 2003

DAY ONE

Session one theme: Supply chain vulnerability and its consequences

Supply chain vulnerability - where are the weak points and what can you do about them?

Container crime review

The terrorist threat to the supply chain

The economic threat

BREAK

Session two theme: The role of technology in securing the supply chain

Secure containers in transit - seals, tracking

Securing ports

What's in the box - scanning and detection

Securing shippers

The airfreight perspective

LUNCH

Session three theme: Supply chain data and its role in security

Data: how to get it - data flow review, touch points and risk,

Data security

Developing data standards and widespread international

BREAK

Session four theme: Current measures and their value

Current Security Initiatives: how they work, what they have delivered?

Debate - how much more secure do these measures make the global supply chain?

Where do we go from here? - Panel

DAY TWO

Session Five theme: costs, benefits and who pays -

Real life implications for the players in world trade-

Shippers

Consignees

Carriers

Ports

 

Costs and benefits of security technology

To the shipper

To the port/terminal operator

To the carrier

To the authorities -

What is the ROI?

Debate: Costs, Benefits and Who Pays - what are the real costs of supply chain security? Who should pay?

Conference producer Tim Power has worked for 20 years in container shipping and supply chain management. With P&O Containers he had roles in container logistics and trade lane management before joining the company's new Global Logistics division in 1995.

There he ran the UK operation which provided supply chain management, project cargo, airfreight and consolidation services. He left P&O Containers in 1998 and joined International Asset Systems as one of the start up team that developed and launched InterBox a B2B exchange for container interchange. In 2001 he set up his own company, specialising in e-business, supply chain engineering and container logistics CONFERENCE PRODUCER: Tim Power, tjpower@attglobal.net