Exciting news from RMIT University! If you are a citizen or permanent resident of Australia, and you fancy trying your hand at developing your academic credentials, then you might eligible for a research scholarship investigating how to improve port performance in Australia!
Dr Vinh Thai, Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management at RMIT University has announced the development. Noting that our country is heavily dependent on international trade, with more than 99% of our trade volumes going by sea (the consensus quoted figure for international sea trade generally is about 80%), Dr Thai argues that the effectiveness and efficiency of the Australian port system is essential to import / export competitiveness.
The project will investigate how data analytics-enabled innovation can contribute to boosting port performance in the context of Australia and whether this may lead to long-term competitiveness.
“The key idea of the project is to conduct a comprehensive baseline analysis of the existing bottlenecks in port performance, and especially identify areas where data analytics-enabled innovations can contribute to improve process efficiency and port productivity. Some pilot studies will then be conducted to examine how some relevant technologies such as AI can help to leverage the implementation of these data analytics-enabled innovations upon which relevant management and policy recommendations shall be proposed,” Dr Thai explained to Shipping Australia.
He adds that the Ph.D. scholarship is only available to full time candidates, who will also need to meet the entry requirements for the Ph.D. program at RMIT, and these requirements can be found here.
Interested? Contact Professor Vinh Thai to find out more!
