Assessment Of Supply Chain Collaboration in Case of The Seaport Logistics of Iron Ore Export: Use of The Supply Chain Management Framework
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Abstract
Global seaport logistics has attained importance in the context of globalization. Complexities of global seaport logistics have necessitated collaboration of supply chains using the seaports.
The mining companies and associated manufacturing companies are heavily dependent on seaport logistics for import of key raw materials such as Copper Concentrate, Coal, Iron ore, Dolomite, Bauxite as well as the export of the mined product. The objective of this research is to carry out an assessment of the level of supply chain collaboration in case of a supply chain pertaining to the export of iron ore. For this purpose, we used a supply chain management approach in the analysis of the supply chain of ABC, a company engaged with the mining and export of iron ore. More explicitly we referred to the supply chain management framework defined by Ahmad and Ullah (Ahmed & Ullah, 2012). We gathered the needed information by conducting semi structured interviews with the officials of ABC.