With a strategic emphasis on innovative research, ICMS in collaboration with the Department, have been supporting various research initiatives sponsored by different funding schemes, attaining a good research portfolio in both academic and applied research for shipping and ports logistics and marine environment that address commercial, technological and public policy research needs.
To cite a few ongoing projects committed:
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"Port Benchmarking Project" | |
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"Regional Container Cargo Equilibrium Analysis and Forecasting: How Hong Kong Prospers with a Sub-40% Market Share" | |
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"Regional Multi-mode Container Flow Management: Models and Policy Development" | |
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"Management of Transportation Service Providers in a Global Organization" | |
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"Bertrand Competition of Container Ports in Growing Market with Lumpy Investment" | |
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Niche Areas |  |
Amongst the research initiatives, there are projects with high potential to reach a standard of excellence on a regional or international basis, and are thus established as Niche Areas receiving funding from the ASD of PolyU. They are:
- "Consortium of Shipping and Maritime Studies: Management and Service"
- "Equilibrium Performance Benchmarking of Global Ports: Simulated Outlook"
- "Port-Adapted Logistics Index: An Interactive Dynamic Efficiency Assessment System"
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Cross-boundary Research Project | |
ICMS also promotes national collaboration between local and Mainland researchers. "Collaborative Regional Container Flow Management: Models and Systems Development" is an example of cross-boundary research project (PolyU and Shanghai Jiaotong University) sponsored by the "National Natural Science Foundation of China" of the People's Republic of China and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.
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Award-winning Project | |
A highlight of the research innovations is the "Harmful Algae Indexing (HaiDex) System", an efficient system to forecast and forewarn the occurrence of large-scale Harmful Algal Bloom (commonly known as red tide). As an inter-disciplinary study by the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies and the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, the invention won the Silver Medal at the 36th annual International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products in 2008. The award is a recognition of the research effort in applying rigorous research to resolve real world problems.
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Research-oriented Laboratory | |
ICMS in the pipeline will establish a research-oriented laboratory, The Laboratory for Maritime and Logistics System, which aims to enhance research productivity and foster innovation that will built on national and international collaboration.
With a wide range of cutting-edge research and innovative projects in agenda, the Centre will continue to work towards shaping new knowledge to support maritime studies and management, as well as further promoting academic-industry-government collaboration.