What is the
role of the UK port industry in supporting improvements to the resilience of
RoRo international supply chains?
Our students work
with real problems to improve the UK and global economy and society through
company-based projects. Christopher Yates, one of our 2019–20 MSc International
Procurement and Supply Chain Management students, conducted an MSc project with
the Department of Transport (DfT). His dissertation title was: “What is the
role of the UK port industry in supporting improvements to the resilience of
RoRo international supply chains?” The project was secured by the Programme
Manager (Dr Stavros Karamperidis) with the support of Maritime UK and the DfT.
Dr
Karamperidis described it as
“a great opportunity for Christopher to get involved
with an exciting project with a huge impact on the UK, both economically and
socially. It is our great pleasure to participate in such projects and
demonstrate that our students are business-ready and that
our staff have the knowledge to conduct high-level research”.
Christopher said:
"As an island
nation, the UK economy is extremely dependent on its port infrastructure and
wider supply chains to facilitate international trade. My project, which was
conducted in partnership with the UK Department for Transport, aimed to analyse
and evaluate the resilience levels of UK ports with specific regard for RoRo
cargos. Through assessing these resilience levels, we were able to produce a
series of recommendations for future policymaking to maintain and improve
resilience levels across the nation and ensure these ports remain significant
trade facilitators.