Lauri Ojala - UTU Research Portal

Lauri Ojala

- Professor,
Operations & Supply Chain Management (Department of Marketing and International Business)

lauri.ojala@utu.fi

+358 29 450 2577

+358 50 502 7031

Rehtorinpellonkatu 3

Turku

International logistics, maritime & port economics and supply chain management

Dr. Lauri Ojala is Professor of Logistics at the Turku School of
Economics, University of Turku (FI) since 1997. Adjunct Professor of Logistics
at Linköping University (SE) and at National Defence University (FI). CEO of logscale
oy, a supply chain compliance consultancy.

He has worked as an expert e.g. for The World Bank, EC, ADB, OECD and
UNECE, and for Ministries of Transport of several countries. Initiator of WB’s
biennial Logistics Performance Index since 2007. He also heads
the biennial Finnish Logistics Surveys, which comprise the largest national logistics survey database in
the world.

Since 2006, Project Director of five EU-projects with a combined
volume of 16+ M€, incl. Baltic Sea Region projects HAZARD on Seaport Safety & Security in 2016-2019 and OIL SPILL on
combatting coastal oil spills in 2018-2021.

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The effect of a competitive strategy and green supply chain management on the financial and environmental performance of logistics service providers (2018)
- Business Strategy and the Environment
Sini Laari, Juuso Töyli, Lauri Ojala
The impact of ice class on the economics of wet and dry bulk shipping in the Arctic waters (2018)
- Maritime Policy and Management
Tomi Solakivi, Tuomas Kiiski, Lauri Ojala
The performance of logistics service providers and the logistics costs of shippers: a comparative study of Finland and Switzerland (2018)
- International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
Solakivi T., Hofmann E., Töyli J., Ojala L.
Tulevaisuuden toimitusketju – vaikutuksia siviili- ja sotilaslogistiikkaan (2018)
- Tiede Ja Ase
Sini Laari, Sari Uusipaavalniemi, Risto Leinonen, Lauri Ojala
Cybersecurity in ports : a conceptual approach (2017) Digitalization in Supply Chain Management and Logistics Jenna Ahokas, Tuomas Kiiski, Jarmo Malmsten, Lauri Ojala
Decision-making in emergency situations in a seaport context (2017) Proceedings of International POMS 2017 Lauri Ojala, Oskari Rintala, Jarmo Malmsten
Determinants of carrier selection: updating the survey methodology into the 21st century (2017)
- Transportation Research Procedia
World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2016 Shanghai. 10-15 July 2016 Solakivi T, Ojala L
Editorial for NOFOMA 2016 conference special issue (SI) (2017)
- International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
Lauri Ojala, Juuso Töyli, Harri Lorentz, Tomi Solakivi
Estimating the ship dismantling capacity in compliance with the European Union’s Ship Recycling Regulation (2017)
- Proceedings of the international conference on logistics and transport
Supply Chain 4.0 Challenges and Prospects Tomi Solakivi, Tuomas Kiiski, Tuulia Kuusinen, Lauri Ojala
Estimating the size of the national logistics market using multiple data sources (2017) NOFOMA 2017: the 29th NOFOMA Conference: Taking on Grand Challenges Tomi Solakivi, Lauri Ojala, Harri Lorentz, Juuso Töyli, Sini Laari