WORKPORT - Work Organisation in Ports
Overview
Background & policy context:
Sea and inland ports are important interfaces of intra-European trade,
enabling economic exchange with neighbouring regions, and are part of
powerful worldwide transport networks. Their importance as linking
elements between several modes of transport and the general backbone
character of worldwide shipping imply that improvements in the
organisation and management of European ports based on new technologies
may have a significant positive impact on the port industry and related
businesses.
Objectives:
WORKPORT aimed to identify the impact of new technologies in ports, particularly the effect on working environments, and also to consider the application of new organisational and management concepts to meet future demand for ports.
The main objectives of WORKPORT have been:
- to identify the main impacts of new technologies on the human factor, on safety at work, on the social environment, and on qualification, education and training;
- to identify the main trends in technology and management development at an international level;
- to investigate if and how lessons learned from other industrial sectors could be applied in the ports' working environments;
- to assess how R&D results might influence the ports' organisation and management, promote the integration of ports into the intermodal transport chain and increase their efficiency and competitiveness; and
- to consider the redesign of jobs in ports with implications on the required qualifications, working structures, hierarchies, organisational arrangements and responsibilities.
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