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Summary Sentence: Sustainability Challenges and Solutions for Port Regions
Full Summary: A lecture and discussion seeking to convey an understanding of Port Regions’ challenges with sustainability and other supply chain components in the face of continued growth, inadequate infrastructure and unsustainable inefficiencies.
The Physical Internet - GT Savannah Learning SeriesBuilding Momentum toward a Smart Interconnected Era of Efficient and Sustainable Logistics, Supply Chains and Transportation
A lecture and discussion seeking to convey an understanding of Port Regions’ challenges with sustainability and other supply chain components in the face of continued growth, inadequate infrastructure and unsustainable inefficiencies. The Physical Internet concept is introduced as an emerging long-term solution to achieving a more sustainable global supply chain. The Physical Internet is an open global-logistics system founded on physical, digital and operational interconnectivity, through encapsulation, interfaces and protocols. The Physical Internet is intended to replace current logistical models.
Dr. Benoit Montreuil, Professor and Coca-Cola Material Handling & Distribution Chair
The Physical Internet Initiative aims at transforming the way physical objects
are moved, stored, realized, supplied and used; enabling economic, environmental and societal efficiency and sustainability breakthroughs by applying the Internet metaphor to the real world.
