TPR News May 2025
New TPR publications
- Stakeholder identification and mapping in peripheral European inland waterway ecosystems
- The logistical trade-off between D&D and Warehousing costs – FREE FOR DOWNLOAD
- Transhipment port competitiveness assessment: the importance of port location
- Heeding the Voice from the Industry: Using Structural Topic Models to Re-investigate “Green Port” – FREE FOR DOWNLOAD
- Understanding the key criteria for shared mobility providers in their evaluation of potential markets – FREE FOR DOWNLOAD
- Towards a typology of airline vertical strategies
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Acceptance and adoption of innovative digital technologies in the inland waterway transport
TPR hosted successful Antwerp Rail School!
The last week of April, the Antwerp Rail School 2025 took place. A particularly interesting biennial organisation by UAntwerp, in collaboration with Infrabel, NMBS-SNCB, Lineas and Siemens Mobility. The School offered a very varied programme: lectures and debates on Market & Trends, Skills & Young Talent, Technology & Innovation, insights from NL, FR, IT, ES, CZ, DE, CH and GB, fascinating meetings with academics, professionals and students, and a final field visit.
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How smart technologies (AI and IoT) contribute to advancing sustainability in port environments
Dennie Lockefeer Chair Awards handed out
Quan van der Knokke won the gold Dennie Lockefeer Chair Award 2025, with his thesis on ‘life cycle analysis for sustainable inland shipping on the South Holland waterways’. Congrats! Silver went to Anton Smidts, bronze to Audrey Clarebout.
Join Johan Woxenius’s online public lecture
Developing the interface between ports and port cities 8 May 2025, 6pm CET in collaboration with BIVEC-GIBET
Stijn Michielsen features in UPU online video
In this interview, Stijn Michielsen, a PhD researcher and one of the first-ever UPU research fellows, discusses key opportunities for postal operators, including pharmaceutical e-commerce and digitalization. He shares insights on how the UPU and its members can leverage these trends to strengthen their role in global logistics. Watch to learn more about the fellowship’s impact and future directions.
Join Simon Véronneau’s online public lecture Strategic competition and supply chains 12 May 2025, 2pm-3pm CET
Join Jasmine Lam’s online public lecture Green port from the Environmental, Social and Governance perspectives 12 May 2025, 3pm-4pm CET
Ambos Law guest lecture
The course ‘Legal Aspects of Shipping Risks’ invited Philippe Van Dijck, partner at Ambos Lawyers, for a guest lecture.
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Nike team guest-lectures
The Logistics and Distribution Management class had the pleasure of welcoming the Nike ELC team. Through an engaging business game, students applied what they learned to real-life case studies — and realized that customs is not just about regulations, but also about strategy, collaboration, and sustainability.
TPR presented @ METRANS I-NUF Conference
TPR presented at the International Urban Freight Conference (I-NUF 2025) hosted by METRANS at the University of Southern California:
– Scenario-based optimization and machine learning (ML) for dynamic consumer assignment in urban freight distribution.
Recent TPR presentations
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