Project Operations Management Program

【Specialized Fields】

Global Logistics, Port Planning

【Subjects】

Sustainable Supply Chain, Global Logistics - Strategy and Practice

【Background】

M Eng. and Dr. Eng. From Tohoku University. Worked for National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management at MLIT, Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University as an Associate Professor

【Publications】

Yasuhiro AKAKURA: Analysis of Offshore Waiting at World Container Terminals and Estimation of CO2 Emissions from Waiting Ships, Asian Transport Studies, Vol.9, 100111, 2023.
Yasuhiro AKAKURA, Tomoko SASAKI, Kenji ONO, Tomihiro WATANABE: An Assessment of the Impacts on the International Container Transport and the World Economy Resulting from the 2014/15 U.S. West Coast Port Disruption, Journal of Integrated Disaster Risk Management, Vol.8, No.1, pp.1-21, 2018.

【Message】

The global warming issue and the occurrence of stagnation in world container services have generated a need for both improving the efficiency of global supply chains and making them more decarbonized and resilient. I want to find better solutions to this problem through the sophistication of grasping, analyzing, assessing, and forecasting maritime logistics utilizing big data.