This book reports on interdisciplinary research and developments in logistics and supply chain management. It discusses new strategies and methods allowing automation in different kind of industries and businesses, and adapting to their digital and sustainable transformation.  It highlights issues relating to human-centric logistics, transport efficiency and safety, maintenance 5.0, fuel consuption and emissions, and more. All in all, this book offers a timely and practice-oriented guide to a multidisciplinary audience of engineering researchers, system developers, AI scientists and industrial managers.Chapter "An AIS-Based Analysis of the Transfer of Maritime Pilots" is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via Springerlink.