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New paper contributions by TPR
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TPR
lecture Roar Adland
In
the TPR lecture series, Roar Adland will lecture on 27 November
2.30PM on 'Steel and algorithms: The future of bulk shipping'. Everyone is
invited to join this free session, but registration is required.
Register here
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PhD
Valentin Carlan
On
20 November, at 4pm, Valentin Carlan will defend his PhD at the
University of Antwerp, on the topic of 'Maritime supply chain innovation:
costs, benefits and cost-effectiveness of ICT introduction'. Everyone can
freely attend this defense, upon registration by sending an e-mail to
valentin.carlan@uantwerp.be.
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PhD
Joost Hintjens
On
22 November, at 4pm, Joost Hintjens will defend his PhD at the
University of Antwerp, on the topic of 'Cooperation between seaports
concerning hinterland transport'. Everyone can freely attend this defense,
upon registration by sending an e-mail to joost.hintjens@uantwerp.be.
View invitation
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Join
TPR's Air Transport Colloquium
On
5 December 2019, TPR will host its annual Air Transport Colloquium, on the
topic of 'Ways to survive! Competition and Co-operation in the air
transport sector'.
Register now!
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Join
the NOVIMAR Mid-term Event
Join
Horizon 2020-funded NOVIMAR for its mid-term conference on 21 November in
Brussels! The conference tackles advances in development of the vessel
train concept.
Register here
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Join
C-MAT's PhD research courses
C-MAT
offers two more research courses this semester:
- Industrial Economics 25th – 29th November 2019
- Welfare Economics 9th – 13th December 2019
View course announcements
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e-Hubs
newsletter
On
Thursday, the 24th of October in Leuven, the eHUBS project held a workshop
dedicated to the identification of effective forms of public-private
cooperation, with the objective to effectively deploy shared and electric
mobility hubs in cities in North-West Europe.
Register here
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Save
the date: Chair Dennie Lockefeer
On
20 January at 4pm, the Chair Dennie Lockefeer will be inaugurated. An
official invitation will follow in the next newsletter.
See the Chair page
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Job
opening? Post it for UAntwerp students!
University
of Antwerp's Faculty of Business and Economics has launched a new online
Career Center, where any company and organisation can post jobs for Antwerp
University students.
View career desk
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Succesful
Shipping Event BNP Paribas Fortis Chair
On
22 October 2019, the BNP Paribas Fortis Chair at the University of Antwerp,
hosted the second Shipping Event on the topic ‘Regulation and its impact on
investment decisions in the shipping industry and beyond" in Antwerp.
170 participants listened to a keynote of IMO, best practices from the
industry (CMB, DP World, Jan De Nul Group) and the opinions of EC, Euronav,
BNPP, FIATA and the academic world.
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Emerald
Literati Awards
The
article “Testing for the burst of bubbles in dry bulk shipping market using
log periodic power law model” published by Shun Chen, Shiyuan Zheng and
Hilde Meersman in Maritime Business Review has been selected by the
editorial team as Highly Commended in the 2019 Emerald Literati Awards. The
paper can be downloaded free of charge for six months.
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C-MAT
students visit port of Antwerp
On
14 October, C-MAT students visited the port of Antwerp, including company
visits to Euroports and Katoennatie.
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New
TPR junior researcher: Ruben Van Deuren
On
15 October, Ruben Van Deuren started working as a junior researcher @ TPR.
Ruben is TPR alumnus, and will research on inland navigation on the Dennie
Lockefeer Chair.
View Ruben's page
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New
TPR junior researcher: Peter Shobayo
On
1 November, Peter Shobayo started working as a junior researcher @ TPR.
Peter is a C-MAT alumnus, and will research on urban freight distribution
by vessel.
View Peter's page
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TPR
joined the Clusters 2.0 PB meeting
On
15-16 October 2019, TPR participated at the Clusters 2.0 Partner Board (PB)
meeting at Trieste (Italy). The meeting focused on the business aspects of
the project.
View project link
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Spin-off
Digitrans nominated for AHA award
Thierry
Vanelslander (TPR) and Peter Hellinckx (IDLab) are nominated for an AHA!
Award in the category 'promising innovation trajectory' with the new
DigiTrans spin-off. DigiTrans aims at striking a perfect balance between
sector-specific knowledge in road transport operations and software
development expertise. The fleet optimization algorithms built through
DigiTrans work either as a back-end, or through a dedicated web-interface
or as a mobile app on mobile devices or PDAs.
View more info on the
spin-off
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TPR
@ METRANS I-NUF Conference
On
15-19 October 2019, TPR members presented at the I-NUF Conference 2019 on:
- Key success factors to attract e-commerce logistics activities at an
airport
- A risen start in the last-mile pickup and delivery
- Local 'hives': how added-value services can make micro-hubs for urban
goods distribution a succes
- Hyper-local and zero-emission urban deliveries via micro-hubs: a solution
for the future
View announcement
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TPR
@ European Transport Conference 2019
On
9-11 October 2019, TPR members presented at ETC 2019 on:
- Container terminal efficiency: Case of Le Havre – Hamburg
- Autonomous vehicles vs. loading/unloading operations
- Labour market for the port of the future:
A case study for the port of Antwerp
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TPR
presented @ various events
TPR
lately presented on:
- Logistics operators’ requirements for the improvement of the
multimodal supply chain
- Labour market for the port of the future
- From developing to professional ANSP: a typology of European ANSP
business models
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Upcoming external events where you can meet TPR
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Hamburg
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