NETWORK MODELING OF THE TANKERS CHARTERING PROCESS AS AN ELEMENT OF COMMERCIAL WORK DIGITALIZATION IN WATER TRANSPORT

Abstract

The emergence of “Industrialization 4.0” concept in Germany has received wide interest from European countries and Russia. The idea of creating a suitable digital platform that unites all sectors of the country economy in a single place is promising for the domestic transport industry development. In particular, the digitalization of chartering, operation and maintenance of the fleet within a single electronic platform could reduce the time spent on the certain operations, improve communication between shipowners and charterers, as well as between departments and technical services of the transport company, and convert most of the documentation to electronic format, reduce part of the company costs. In order to realize this idea, it is necessary to have a well-designed schedule of the decision chain of not only the office personnel of the shipowning company, but also of all structures involved in sea and water transport.In the framework of this paper, applying a network modeling method to build a model of the decisions sequence of office workers in water transport is proposed. For this, it is proposed to consider one of the commercial processes in sea and river transport, namely, chartering of tonnage. So, for the purposes of the study, a network diagram of the decision chain when the charter is being agreed and made is built, a series of experiments showing the rules of changing the temporal values of this process is carried out, an analysis of the reasons affecting these changes is made. Based on the work results, a forecast regarding changes in document management, in operational and communication processes after the electronic platforms introduction in the work of freight departments of the water transport enterprises is made.