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Regional Logistics 2-2018

Quarterly Journal of Open ENLoCC

European Review

of Regional Logistics

Also in this issue:

Logistics region of Wielkopolska.

Newcastle: The North East Freight Partnership.

US Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.

Classic text: Adam Smith on the size of the market defining the division of labour.

News. Next dates. Suggested reading: EU study on urban logistics.

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Low cab for urban logistics

"In the Aisles": Berlinale movie festival starring Logistics

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In this issue

Editorial 3 by Giuseppe Luppino, President Open ENLoCC.

News from partners and logistics 4 In den Gängen / In the Aisles. Call open: SULPiTER training programme. SMARTLOGI: Eastern Adriatic Ports to improve cross-border logistics. Shift2Rail to co-fund 18 rail innovation projects worth €155.3 million. Germany: Heavy electric bikes get subsidies. EFIP members meet in Seville (Spain) and discuss the strength of seagoing inland ports. Swabia: Emission free urban transport – how is it possible? It’s about time.

“Reading Company” 6 Study on urban logistics: The integrated perspective. Use of information and communication technologies. Treatment of logistics activities in Urban Vehicle Access Regulation Schemes. Engage- ment of stakeholders when implementing urban freight logistics policies. Logistics schemes for E-commerce. The use of Environmentally Friendly Freight Vehicles. Indicators and data collection methods on urban freight distribution. „New Silk Road“ – a perspective for the EU.

Logistics Region of Wielkopolska 10 Wielkopolska, home of Open ENLoCC member ILiM Institute of Logistics and Warehousing in Poznań, presents itself as a logistics opportunity, centrally located in Europe.

Newcastle: The North East Freight Partnership 12 The city of Newcastle, together with a number of local authorities around it, features an institutionalized cooperation for questions regarding regional freight and city logistics.

World's largest gathering of transportation professionals 14 US Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting 2018).

Get your copy of each Open ENLoCC publication 15 Past and present issues.

Low cab in urban logistics 16 A vroom with a view, and its advantage for operation and safety in urban environments.

Classic text – Adam Smith: That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market 18

Next dates 20

Open ENLoCC – the network and its members 23

Cover photos: © Daimler AG, © Sommerhaus Filmproduktion

The “European Review of Regional Logistics”, quarterly journal of Open ENLoCC, is issued by KLOK Kooperationszentrum Logistik e.V. on behalf of Open ENLoCC, the European network of regional logistics competence centers. Editor: Martin Brandt. Open EN-LoCC co-editors: Carl-Magnus Carlsson, Giuseppe Luppino. ISSN 2509-226X

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Dear regional logistics experts,

The yearly General Assembly of Open ENLoCC is approaching. This year, the network members will assemble in Newcastle on April 10 and 11, upon invitation of our British partner NewRail. This brought an example of a logistics partnership to our attention, which includes public and private actors: The “North East Freight Partnership” in the Newcastle region, which we share with you.

In good time before the 2018 Polish Logistics Congress, held every two years in Poznań by our network member ILiM, we introduce to you the area around Poznań, known as “Wielkopolska” or “Greater Poland” as a logistics region.

Just because the “Review” holds a European point of view, we should not forget that the world extends beyond just Europe, and quite definitely so. Whoever has not yet been at the US Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting really has missed one of the largest events in transport logistics worldwide!

Looking for environmentally friendly ways to deliver cargo in urban regions, we found that the design of the delivery vehicles does matter. Low cab, resulting in better visibility, is quite an important issue.

As usual, we again feature a classic text on logistics. This time, it is Adam Smith, elaborating upon the need for a large market in order to allow for productivity through specialization.

Furthermore, a main study on many aspects of urban logistics has been elaborated by an European consortium and issued by the European Commission, as guidance to all interested parties. We review the parts of that study in our “Reading Company” section.

A lot more is going on in regional logistics, as the “News” and “Next Dates” sections of this “Review” show.

We wish you all good reading!

Giuseppe Luppino President “Open ENLoCC” Institute for Transport and Logistics (ITL), Bologna

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News

In den Gängen / In the Aisles

Christian (Franz Rogowski) starts his job in the “Beverages” aisle of a large wholesale depot somewhere in contemporary eastern Germany. He soon feels attracted to Marion (Sandra Hüller), who works in the parallel “Sweets” aisle. He also befriends Bruno (Peter Kurth), who used to roam East Germany as a trucker and now, after the wall came down, operates the forklift in the aisles.

At the 2018 Berlinale festival, this melodramatic movie by Thomas Stuber was quite a hit with critics. It will be released in Germany on May 24.

Call open: SULPiTER training programme

The SULPiTER “Enlarged Transfer Programme” (ETP) aims for a direct dialogue with at least 20 authorities mainly from the Central Europe Programme Area, competent for freight transport and logistics in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs), and involve them in a training programme to improve their understanding and skills in policy making for urban energy efficient freight in a mutual learning process.

Benefits are three training sessions between now and February 2019, two by webinar and one as a physical meeting, which will take place with the final project meeting in Bologna. Participants will benefit from the experience of the SULPiTER FUAs representatives having implemented their own Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans (“SULPs”) and from support of technical experts.

Special attention will be paid to matching the respective ETP cities’ key areas of interest with similar and relevant activities in the SULPiTER cities, so that the assistance offered can be even more targeted.

Ministries, Regions and Cities can apply. Research organizations are entitled if they prove an influence with one of the institutions categorized above by providing a Letter of Support (LoS) signed by the relevant institution.

Please apply at https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/sulpiteretpsurvey

SMARTLOGI: Eastern Adriatic Ports to improve cross-border logistics

Reduction of the environmental impact (emissions of polluting gases, CO2 and noise) on the Alpine Arc along the Brenner and Tarvisio axis: with this goal the Port System authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea (Port of Trieste) has activated SMARTLOGI -"Sustainable and clever cross-border logistics", a new project on technological innovation supporting intermodal transport.

The project, which will run for 24 months and have a budget of approximately EUR 1.3 million, is jointly financed by the cross-border Cooperation Program Italy-Austria, and is developed in collaboration with Fürnitz dry port of Open ENLoCC member Carinthia, The University

© Sommerhaus Filmproduktion

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/sulpiteretpsurvey

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of Klagenfurt, the EGTC "Euroregion without frontiers", the Veneto Region, the IUAV University of Venice and EURAC (www.eurac.edu).

The port of Trieste and the Austrian terminal of Fürnitz (Villach) will adopt a technological solution for the exchange of data in real time, in order to make the rail freight transport more and more convenient and efficient. In addition to this, a strategy which can be applied also to other cross-border territories will be developed.

Shift2Rail to co-fund 18 rail innovation projects worth €155.3 million

Shift2Rail JU launched its Call for Proposals 2018, a new funding opportunity for research and innovation activities in railways worth €155.3 million overall. Research institutes, companies and associations, including beyond the rail sector, can submit their proposals until 24 April.

New projects are set to enter the Shift2Rail (S2R) programme cutting-edge research and innovation activities, in all the areas of the rail eco-system, including passenger and freight trains, IT applications, infrastructure, services for passengers, and cross-cutting innovation activities for rail.

The Shift2Rail Call for Proposals 2018 includes 18 rail research and innovation topics for a total value of €155.3 million co-funded by the S2R JU up to €78.7 million. 11 topics for an estimated total value of €21.1 million, co-funded up to €19.1 million, are opened to non-S2R Members. The remaining 7 topics, for a total value of €134.1 million, will be co-funded up to €59.6 million by the S2R JU.

These new projects will join the 48 that exist currently within the S2R initiative. Applicants can submit their proposals up to 24 April through the H2020 Portal.

Germany: Heavy electric bikes get subsidies

Since March 1st, electric bikes with a minimum capacity of 150 kg and 1 m3 can be subsidized with up to € 2,500 or a maximum of 30% of their price. Leasingcan also get the subsidy, and even bikes already bought after 20 November 2017.

EFIP members meet in Seville (Spain) and discuss the strength of seagoing inland ports

On 16 March 2018, members of the European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) gathered in Seville (Spain) for their annual General Assembly meeting. The meeting was hosted by the Port of Seville, located in the heart of the metropolitan area of Seville.

On the occasion of the event, Angel Pulido Hernández, the Director of the Port of Seville highlighted the main strength of the Port of Seville, as the only inland seaport in Spain: “The Port of Seville is exceptionally situated in southern Spain's main metropolitan area with a surrounding population of over 1.5 million, and boasts intermodality based on ideal

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connections between ship, train and truck within the public port facilities.” He also said that the Port of Seville is “a priority port for the European Union, part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) and an instrument for regional competitiveness”.

Swabia: Emission free urban transport – how is it possible?

Last December, the two networks „Cluster Nutzfahrzeuge Schwaben (CNS)“ and Open ENLoCC member „Logistik Cluster Schwaben (LCS)“ formed the joint initiative „e-Cargo City“ at the regional Dachser depot in Langenau. e-Cargo City intends to be a joint platform to all regional actors engaged in energy transition, to find solution for future forms of mobility.

„Schwaben“ (Swabia) is a historical area in Southern Germany, located between Stuttgart and Munich and extending into the states of both Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

It’s about time

Electric power is an almost homogenuous commodity. Which is why it can easily be bought and sold while being transported in networks across borders. This results in a very reliable supply to consumers, the perfect dream of a logistician. However, nothing can be taken for granted:

For many years, some Kosovo towns have not paid their electricity bills to the Kosovo government. These days, the Kosovo government stopped ordering the electricity it wasn’t reimbursed for, and subsequently that amount wasn’t produced either.

With demand exceeding supply, the frequency of the European power grid dropped a bit below the usual 50 Hz (cycles per second). Many cheap electrical clocks rely upon these cycles to measure time, and thus fell behind. Alarm clocks got six minutes late within two weeks, making people across Europe getting late to work, or at least wondering what was wrong. These days, the loss is made up, pushing the clocks forward again. /MB

Reading Company

In the past months, the European Union has issued a “Study on urban logistics” as “non-binding guidance aiming at smarter urban logistics.” It comes in six volumes, each dealing with a different topic, six technical annexes that deal with the topic at greater depth, plus an umbrella document.

This set of documents will be a main source of reference for all questions regarding urban and regional logistics, and an important starting point for each debate. It is “primarily aimed at public authorities, such as municipalities or local agencies, responsible for the management of

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traffic, transport and transport infrastructure within urban areas.” (Page 9 of the umbrella document, highlighted in the original.)

The study is a main work on urban logistics, done by a number of leading institutions:

ecorys, an international consulting based in Rotterdam,

Técnico Lisboa, the largest engineering institution of higher learning in Portugal,

TPR, the Department of Transport and Regional Economics at the University of Antwerp, plus

Professor Laetitia Dablanc, Director of Research at the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR, University of Paris-Est).

The study in all its parts is published by EU commission, but the opinions remain those of the authors.

The “Review” is not related to the authors or their institutions, and neither to the EU commission. The parts of the study are presented here at some length because many readers are involved in urban logistics projects and are likely to be specifically interested in this publication.

Study on urban logistics – The integrated perspective

Final report, 31 pages, December 2017. Van den Bossche M, Maes J (Ecorys); Vanelslander T (University of Antwerp; Macário R, Reis V (University of Lisbon); with Dablanc L. EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport Directorate B - Investment, Innovative & Sustainable Transport Unit B4 – Sustainable & Intelligent Transport

This is the umbrella document. It gives abstracts of the various topics for which individual reports were written, and it shows how these topics relate to each other. So, it should be read first, no matter how many of the other parts one is going to look for, or how intense the dealing with some specifics may become.

Use of information and communication technologies

Final report, 27 pages, plus separate technical report, 62 pages, December 2017. Non-binding guidance documents on urban logistics N° 1/6. Authors and publisher as above.

This report elaborates upon six „clusters“ of ICT measures, related to: Vehicle support equipment, operations management, Information and dissemination, decision support and enforcement, infrastructure technology, and the sharing economy including e-business services. Many of these are basically within the responsibility of the logistics industry, with its interregional company policies and competing actors. Therefore, the field of ICT appears well explained to the reader, but many of its fields may be difficult to improve through policy measures – more than the other fields, the report may just help to avoid getting

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entangled in fields in which the individual actors (including the public actors) can best optimize results on their own.

Treatment of logistics activities in Urban Vehicle Access Regulation Schemes

Final report, 33 pages, plus separate technical report, 50 pages December 2017. Non-binding guidance documents on urban logistics N° 2/6 Authors and publisher as above.

Access regulation is defined here as regulation in the contexts of low emission zones and congestion charging. The report gives a “how-to” guide of step-by-step introduction. In the technical annex, examples are given from across Europe. Access restrictions have side effects, which in this context are dealt with by debating urban consolidation centers, cargo bikes, off-hour delivery and Green Logistics. The latter is kept a bit more general and explicitly not elaborated in detail in this part of the study.

Engagement of stakeholders when implementing urban freight logistics policies


Implementing policies means to get a large number of stakeholders on board, or the policies will soon backfire for lack of public support. In urban logistics policies, this is the more true, since usually the political bodies have but a limited understanding of the matter, and without collaboration with stakeholders the results of the policies may well turn out to be negative, no matter how well intended they are.

The report is a step-by-step account on engaging the various groups of stakeholders, from s public administration or agency’s viewpoint. The reader may be surprised to find the multitude of potential stakeholders, as well as the great number of personal as well as institutional issues to be considered. The technical report elaborates upon this at greater length and is recommended for those who actually deal with the process.

Logistics schemes for E-commerce


In urban logistics, the specifics of e-commerce are that it triggers a huge flow of small parcels, mainly but not exclusively to private households (and all too often also back again). Understanding the volume of this sector helps to see the relevance of any solution that improves

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conditions for detour-free deliveries. A main aspect of the technical report is the specifics of private households as receivers of goods.

The use of Environmentally Friendly Freight Vehicles


Some paragraphs deal with rail vehicles and boats, but basically this is about road vehicles: Which are the types of vans and trucks used in urban logistics? And by which means are they environmentally friendly? Yes, there is more to it than just electricity. The technical annex deals with a larger variety of means to support the use of such vehicles, mainly through selective regulation.

Indicators and data collection methods on urban freight distribution


In urban logistics, there often is the notion that the logistics companies have „all the data“, since they need it to run their business. Nothing could be more wrong. Even if company data was available, it would not hint which part of the total it is, and which part of it is relevant for urban logistics planning. This is where the use of indicators comes in – getting results via indirect observations. That needs competent modelling and clever assumptions. The presented data collection methods therefore make sense with these thoughts in mind.

„New Silk Road“ – a perspective for the EU

Steer Davies Gleave, 2018, Research for TRAN Committee: The new Silk Route – opportunities and challenges for EU transport, European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, Brussels.

The new Silk Route Initiative brings opportunities and challenges for the European transport system. This research study analyses the Initiative, its impacts and prospects, as well as the EU transport system’s readiness for the Initiative. It provides conclusions and recommendations to the European Parliament Committee on Transport and Tourism to address the Initiative’s challenges.

The report includes comprehensive lists of aims, investments and potential. For example, of the estimated two-way sea freight in 2040 (40 million TEU), 2.5 miliion could be shifted to rail, plus another 0.5 million TEU shifted from air to rail. This would have measurable impacts not only to the infrastructure along the way, but also to e.g. North Sea ports.

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Logistics Region of Wielkopolska Wielkopolska, home of Open ENLoCC member ILiM Institute of Logistics and Warehousing in Poznań, is one of the biggest Polish regions, with a surface area of 29,825 km2 and a population of 3,346 thousands inhabitants, of which almost 58% live in cities. The biggest agglomeration of the region is Poznań with 700,000 people. The second in terms of population is Kalisz-Ostrów (200,000) with the main cities of Kalisz and Os-trów Wielkopolski.

Wielkopolska has a polycentric character with at least six economic as well as industrial centres; however Poznań agglomeration has its leading position being the most important cultural, so-cial, economic and industrial centre.

Apart from the goods traffic generated by the local companies in the region, there is strong activity of foreign flows. It is a consequence of many factors:

A main east-west transit axis from Berlin through Poznań, continuing through Warsaw to Moscow. Rapid growth of automotive industry in the

region of Poznań that generates traffic related to distribution and supply. New logistics operators, often locating near Poznań, making use of its valuable geographical location in relation to the region itself as well as other regions in Poland.

“The region of Poznan (voivodship Wielkopolska) is located between the Baltic coast of Poland, the Capital Warsaw and the Silesian economic cluster. These regions built together the heart of the Polish economy. In terms of freight transport and logistics the region of Poznan profits from its improved road, rail and air connectivity: the international roads E 30 from Berlin to Lodz and Warsaw, the E 261 to Wroclaw, as well as the Eu-ropean railway line E 20 Warsaw-Berlin and the Poznan airport are the logistical and infrastructural backbone.

A lot of national and foreign investments have been made here in the last decades using also some fiscal incentives, especially in the sector of warehousing, forwarding and logistics. Step by step a set of industri-al/logistics areas and special economic zones have been created mainly around Poznan (e.g. Kormoniki, Tarnovo Podgórne, Swarzędz Jasin, Pniewy) and the city of Piła and offer today a wide range of logistics ser-vices and activities, for example flexible intermodal transport chains to the German and ARA ports.

Consequently, major European and world brands selected the region as one of their production and distribution node: Volkswagen, Philips, Glaxo, Bridgestone, Raben Logistics, Solaris Buses, Man Star and others. But not only the investments and settlements matters for a comprehen-sive logistical development. The region supports these processes with

Poznań

Warsaw

Wielkopolska (ʺGreater Polandʺ)

Dipl.-Ing. Bertram Meimbresse, Chief Project Manager Logistics Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau Transport Logistics Hochschulring 1, D-15745 Wildau

Concept and editing with Tomasz Janiak, ILiM.

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scientific knowledge in transport and logistics, particularly at the Adam Mickiewicz University, the Technical University and the Institute for Warehousing and Logistics and the establishment of European wide net-works and research projects. Bundling the regional advantages more and offering new and complex logistics services, the region of Poznan has a good chance to be in the next future one of the European main logistics gates to the emerging Central-Asian markets.”

There are a few key factors that make Wielkopolska a very attractive place for foreign investors, especially for logistics and production indus-tries.

In Poznan, the biggest city in Wielkopolska, 47% of inhabitants speak English and almost 40% communicate in German. This is reflected in for-eign investments structure where German companies make up the big-gest share.

Wielkopolska disposes of good technical schools spread across the region and one of the leading logistics schools. The Poznan School of Logistics cooperates with companies deliverying a practical touch to students (every three months of school are followed by three months of work in one of the partnering companies) and ensuring a steady flow of praxis-oriented graduates. This is highly appreciated by investors from the in-dustry.

Foreign investors can also count on comprehensive help from public au-thorities. This was noticed in the fDi’s „European Cities and Regions of the Future 2018/19” ranking, where Poznan was ranked No. 3. in cathegory „Business-friendly City” and No. 5. in „Best strategy for attract-ing foreign investments” within middle-sized cities in Europe.

The Region Wielkopolska as a pillar of the globalization strategy

Metroplan Eastern Europe provides for international customer operation and logistics footprint strategies. The Region of Wielkopolska is one of our preferred Region in our globalization strategy for our customer in Eastern Europe.

The region has very well-trained employees for industry, trade, and logis-tics and has in Poznan a very good Technical University.

The traffic infrastructure with the motorway A 2 from west to east and the two north-south speedway S5 and S11 provide an excellent basis for the settlement of companies. Also, the connection to two international airports in Poznan and Wroclaw is worth highlighting, as well as the im-proving rail links.

We selected end of 2017 for our Client in the south-west of Wielkopolska a very good location with over 8,5ha for production and logistics. We in-tegrated the plot in a Special Economic Zone and start now the planning of a new production and warehouse as an General Planner. The coopera-tion with the local authorities works well so that we will start production in March 2019 and complete the operation network.

Ulrich Dantzer Manging Director of the Metroplan Eastern Europe Group with sister companies in Warsaw, Wroclaw and Shanghai

Jonna Galuba, PANA advisors - owner, consultant Aksamitna 35 00-153 Warsaw/Poland [email protected] www.panaadvisors.com

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Newcastle: The North East Freight Partnership In 2018, the Open ENLoCCEuropean Network of Logistics Competence Centers meets for its General Assembly in Newcastle. The city of Newcastle, together with a number of local authorities around it, features an institutionalized cooperation for questions regarding regional freight and city logistics.

The North East Combined Authority

Established in 2014, the North East Combined Authority consists of the seven local authorities of Durham County Council, Gateshead Council, Newcastle City Council, North Tyneside Council, Northumberland County Council, South Tyneside Council and Sunderland City Council. The Combined Authority reinforces and strengthens existing partnership arrangements to collectively drive forward change and enable economic growth across an area of almost 2 million people.

There is a proposal currently being discussed which would see the formation of a separate North of Tyne Combined Authority consisting of Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland. A single Transport Joint

Committee would oversee strategic transport matters for both NECA and North of Tyne.

Maintaining and improving a sustainable and integrated transport network that supports passenger and freight travel without adverse impacts on the environment is a key goal of the Authority, in order to promote economic growth, improve access to services and enhance the quality of life for people living in the region.

The North East Freight Partnership

Established in 2005, the North East Freight Partnership represents a collaboration between freight operators, local authorities, academics, freight user groups, industry associations and any other stakeholders with an interest in freight, with the objective of promoting safe, sustainable and efficient freight movement across the region. It is believed to be the longest running body of its type in the UK.

Each year, the Partnership offers a programme of activities to help achieve our goals. This includes quarterly meetings, online resources, training, promotion of Best Practice, trials of the latest technology and promotion of fleet accreditation schemes and cycle safety initiatives. Annual awards are presented to the region’s Freight Driver and Freight Operator of the Year.

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There are also associated Rail and Water Freight partner groups that meet once or twice per year, to discuss the issues and opportunities around movement of freight by rail or water. The latter is of growing im-portance, given the region’s rich maritime heritage, long coastline and range of entrepreneurial ports.

Many meetings are hosted by companies within the freight sector and combined with a site visit, in order to provide added value for those at-tending. In November 2016, the Rail Partner Group met at the Hitachi Rail Plant in Newton Aycliffe and enjoyed a fascinating tour of the facto-ry.

In recent months, air quality has become a major concern for the region as, in common with other urban areas throughout the country, a number of road links exceed legal limits for Nitrogen Dioxide emissions. Road freight traffic, due to its reliance on diesel fuel, is a significant contributor to poor air quality and a range of measures are being investigated to al-leviate this. These include delivery re-timings, vehicle retro-fitting, cycle logistics, promotion of accreditation schemes including training in fuel ef-ficient driving, and the development of a consolidation centre to serve Newcastle University.

Another key concern is the skills gap across the Logistics sector in the re-gion. In November the Partnership arranged a skills workshop attended by logistics companies, training providers and industry bodies to debate the challenges facing the industry and to develop solutions. This has re-sulted in an action plan including ideas for closer cooperation with schools and colleges, skills pages on the website, promotion at career fairs and lobbying for enhanced roadside facilities.

The Freight Partnership has helped to share information about a number of previous European projects relating to freight movement, and remains interested in sharing experience and learning from best practice in the UK and the EU. More details about the Partnership’s activities, meetings and current work programme can be found at http://northeastfreightpartnership.info/

Partnership Chair John Bourn (right) presents the 2017 ‘Opera-tor of the Year’ award to Graham Nixon of Nixon Hire.

Rail Partner Group mem-bers touring Hitachi Rail’s impressive facilities

Text, illustrations: North East Freight Partnership / John Bourn.

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US Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting (Jan 7-11, 2018): World's largest gathering of transportation professionals WASHINGTON -- More than 13,000 people – including industry leaders, policymakers, administrators, and researchers from government, indus-try, and academia – gather for the Transportation Research Board’s An-nual Meeting, now in its 97th year. The event was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

Over 200 sessions addressed the spotlight theme, “Transportation: Mov-ing the Economy of the Future,” or one of three hot topics: resilience and sustainability, transportation and public health, and transformational technologies. Panel sessions and special events include:

Sessions with U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Officials

Encouraging Innovation

The current pace of innovation, industry convergence, and technological change holds the potential to transform the transportation sector. A panel of USDOT officials and industry leaders discussed the next steps for the transportation sector.

Using Data to Tackle Safety Problems

Recent innovations in data science have the potential to provide lifesav-ing insights. Analyzing “big data” can help bring transportation safety in-to the 21st century, adapting to the rapid pace of technological change. This session focused on USDOT’s work, as well as examples from agencies and industries that are successfully using data to improve safety.

Investing in Infrastructure

USDOT envisions a world-class infrastructure system that enables fast, safe transport for people and freight. Officials from USDOT, relevant fed-eral agencies, and other stakeholders discussed how focusing on ac-countability, faster project delivery, smarter funding streams, and better leverage of state, local, and private investments will improve transporta-tion infrastructure in the US.

Sessions with State Department of Transportation Officials

State CEO Roundtable: State DOTs Harnessing All Modes to Move Everybody and Everything

This session included a wide-ranging discussion on the present and future of active transportation, highlighting state efforts to improve the move-ment of freight.

Conference impressions. Photos: Giuseppe Luppino.

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State CEO Roundtable: State DOTs Generating and Leveraging Dollars to Underpin Investment

This session examined recent state and local efforts to generate new revenues that enable both new investment and maintenance of existing assets. State DOT leaders discussed ways to further leverage revenues through use of creative financing tools.

What’s Hot in State DOTs

Topics range from the use of roadside vegetation to save lives to stream-lining project delivery and reducing costs by assuming more of the feder-al responsibility. This session featured speakers from the Delaware, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Utah, and Washington state DOTs.

TRB is a program unit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineer-ing, and Medicine – private, nonprofit institutions that provide inde-pendent, objective analysis and advice to the US nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, technolo-gy, and medicine. The Academies operate under an 1863 congressional charter to the National Academy of Sciences, signed by President Lincoln.

Giuseppe Luppino, President of the Open ENLoCC Network, participated to the 97th Annual Meeting. TRB is the only one conference which allows seeing at the same table university professors, researchers, consultants and public officers from America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Next annual meeting will be in January 2019 with new opportunities and ses-sions showing the current state of play of transport and logistics world-wide and what to be expected by the future.

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A vroom with a view: Low cab in urban logistics Be it on the highway or on urban roads, truckers sit in a high cab for better overview. That was the conventional wisdom for many years. But now, this is changing – for more and more uses, especially in urban and regional goods transport, a low driving cab is understood to be not only more practical, but also safer.

Waste in the Municipality of Lud-wigsburg is now collected by six Mercedes-Benz Econic trucks. The vehicles ensure a high standard of safety with extensive safety tech-nology and a "High Visibility Cab" with a deep panoramic windscreen and a glazed co-driver's door down to floor level. "The built-in Side-guard Assist, for example, detects pedestrians and cyclists and warns the driver by means of visual and audible warning signals. Active Brake Assist 3 is even capable of braking the vehicle autonomous-ly," says Oliver Grimm (centre in photo on next page), managing director of the privately owned waste disposal company Suez Süd,

who, together with Tilman Hepperle (left), managing director of the waste recycling company for the Municipality of Ludwigsburg, took deliv-ery of the vehicles from Patrick Gentner, Daimler AG.

In refuse operations, city distribution and inner-city construction trans-ports - a low-entry cab offers safety and productivity advantages that ad-dress even the most demanding conditions in urban operations. Firstly, the low driving position enhances all-round visibility.

"Seeing what's going on around the truck and making eye contact with vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists are challenges when operating safely in an intense city environment. Now we can address this issue in even more transport operations", says Anders Edenholm, Seg-ment Manager Distribution at Volvo Trucks.

Secondly, the low instep lets the driver work more efficiently and at the same time it reduces the risk for knee and ankle injuries.

The low-

Photos: © Volvo (above), Daimler AG (3). Text: Volvo, Daimler AG, KLOK e.V.

Teamwork: What looks like a classic long distance truck, just with a low cab, in fact is a new plant shuttle on the basis of the Mercedes-Benz Econic NGT. It was developed by Roma in close cooperation with Stern Auto and Daimler for the tractor unit and FSN Fahrzeugbau GmbH for the trailer.

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The low entry cab offer is now extended with a variant optimized for the driver and one passen-ger with the option of an air-suspended passen-ger seat. It offers the same clear visibility as the current model and the low driving position means close contact with the environment around the truck. In addition, the extra window in the passenger door increases the view even further.

The new cab variant is a competitive extension of the current low-entry offer, which can transport up to three passengers and offers a walk-through floor. These functions are de-manded in some transport operations, but not necessary in all cases where a low entry is an advantage.

"In city distribution, for example, the driver does all the driving and deliveries alone. Still, the low entry is a huge ergonom-ic advantage if you climb in and out of the cab over 50 times a day and the enhanced visibility improve safety for vulnerable road users", con-cludes Anders Edenholm.

The new variant has an engine tunnel instead of a flat floor. The im-proved passenger comfort with optional air-suspended seat is mandatory to get public service contracts in some markets.

Apparently, the low cab remains an engineering challenge: Motor gear box and steering column must be placed next to or below the driver. But with its advantages, this rather new design may be the future standard. Municipalities can contribute to its success by demanding it from all manufacturers, be it for waste collection and other urban services, or for entry into restricted urban zones for loading and unloading.

Tilman Hepperle, waste manager of Ludwigsburg town, Oliver Grimm of waste disposal company Suez Süd, Patrick Gentner, Daimler AG, introducing the low cab.

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Classic text – Adam Smith: That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market AS IT IS THE POWER of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent of this division must always be limited by the extent of that power, or, in other words, by the extent of the market. [ … ]

It is impossible there should be such a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the highlands of Scotland. Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a-day, and three hundred working days in the year, will make three hundred thousand nails in the year. But in such a situation it would be impossible to dispose of one thousand, that is, of one day’s work in the year. As by means of water-carriage, a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry than what land-carriage alone can afford it, so it is upon the sea-coast, and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and improve itself, and it is frequently not till a long time after that those improvements extend themselves to the inland parts of the country. [ … ] What goods could bear the expense of land-carriage between London and Calcutta? Or if there were any so precious as to be able to support this expense, with what safety could they be transported through the territories of so many barbarous nations? Those two cities, however, at present carry on a very considerable commerce with each other, and by mutually affording a market, give a good deal of encouragement to each other’s industry.

Since such, therefore, are the advantages of water-carriage, it is natural that the first improvements of art and industry should be made where this conveniency opens the whole world for a market to the produce of every sort of labour, and that they should always be much later in extending themselves into the inland parts of the country. The inland parts of the country can for a long time have no other market for the greater part of their goods, but the country which lies round about them, and separates them from the sea-coast, and the great navigable rivers. The extent of the market, therefore, must for a long time be in proportion to the riches and populousness of that country, and consequently their improvement must always be posterior to the improvement of that country. In our North American colonies, the plantations have constantly followed either the sea-coast or the banks of the navigable rivers, and have scarce anywhere extended themselves to any considerable distance from both.

The nations that, according to the best authenticated history, appear to have been first civilized, were those that dwelt round the coast of the Mediterranean sea. That sea, by far the greatest inlet that is known in the world, having no tides, nor consequently any waves, except such as are caused by the wind only, was, by the smoothness of its surface, as well as by the multitude of its islands, and the proximity of its neighbouring shores, extremely favourable to the infant navigation of the world; when, from their ignorance of the compass, men were afraid to quit the view of the coast, and from the imperfection of the art of ship-building, to abandon themselves to the boisterous waves of the ocean. [ … ]

Adam Smith, 1723-1790 (“The Muir Portrait”, National Galleries of Scotland).

Smith became famous as a fierce advocate of a market economy. As his text shows, he neverthe-less weighted his arguments with respect to circumstances and detail.

Source:

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (“Wealth of Nations”), first published in 1776.

Book I: Of The Causes of Im-provement in the Productive Powers of Labour, and of the Order According to which Its Produce Is Naturally Distributed Among the Different Ranks of the People.

Chapter III: That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market. (Excerpt)

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Of all the countries on the coast of the Mediterranean sea, Egypt seems to have been the first in which either agriculture or manufactures were cultivated and improved to any considerable degree. Upper Egypt extends itself nowhere above a few miles from the Nile; and in Lower Egypt, that great river breaks itself into many different canals, which, with the assistance of a little art, seem to have afforded a communication by water-carriage, not only between all the great towns, but between all the considerable villages, and even to many farm-houses in the country, nearly in the same manner as the Rhine and the Maese do in Holland at present. The extent and easiness of this inland navigation was probably one of the principal causes of the early improvement of Egypt.

The improvements in agriculture and manufactures seem likewise to have been of very great antiquity in the provinces of Bengal, in the East Indies, and in some of the eastern provinces of China, though the great extent of this antiquity is not authenticated by any histories of whose authority we, in this part of the world, are well assured. In Bengal, the Ganges, and several other great rivers, form a great number of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. In the eastern provinces of China, too, several great rivers form, by their different branches, a multitude of canals, and, by communicating with one another, afford an inland navigation much more extensive than that either of the Nile or the Ganges, or, perhaps, than both of them put together. [ … ]

All the inland parts of Africa, and all that part of Asia which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern Tartary and Siberia, seem, in all ages of the world, to have been in the same barbarous and uncivilized state in which we find them at present. The sea of Tartary is the frozen ocean, which admits of no navigation; and though some of the greatest rivers in the world run through that country, they are at too great a distance from one another to carry commerce and communication through the greater part of it. There are in Africa none of those great inlets, such as the Baltic and Adriatic seas in Europe, the Mediterranean and Euxine seas in both Europe and Asia, and the gulfs of Arabia, Persia, India, Bengal, and Siam, in Asia, to carry maritime commerce into the interior parts of that great continent; and the great rivers of Africa are at too great a distance from one another to give occasion to any considerable inland navigation. The commerce, besides, which any nation can carry on by means of a river which does not break itself into any great number of branches or canals, and which runs into another territory before it reaches the sea, can never be very considerable, because it is always in the power of the nations who possess that other territory to obstruct the communication between the upper country and the sea. The navigation of the Danube is of very little use to the different states of Bavaria, Austria, and Hungary, in comparison of what it would be, if any of them possessed the whole of its course, till it falls into the Black sea.

This basic analytical text, of 18th century knowledge and sentiments, echoes until today. It shows how Adam Smith defines “civilization” (as opposed to a “barbarous and uncivilized state”) solely as the ability of a society to supply its members with goods. Other yardsticks, e.g. the way a society treats or protects its members, are not even considered. Seen just this way, transport and logistics do not just form a technology, but constitute an ideology. /MB

EU-sponsored short sea ship-ping (above); ferry across un-der-utilized Danube (below), the latter now targeted by EU’s “Danube Transnational Pro-gramme.” All to extend trade beyond regions.

Plenty of traffic on the Rhine.

Photos: Martin Brandt (above, below), Jürgen Eisele (bottom).

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Next Dates

March 2018 Nice (F), March 26-28 PPRS Nice There's currently a wide consensus among participants, users, contractors, both from the industry and the public sector, to stress the necessity of preventing roads from an irreversible degradation. The objective of this 2

nd PPRS Con-

gress is to analyse and examine the state-of-the-art on road maintenance and modernisation, to identify best practices (in terms of policy, economy, finance, techniques and the environment) and to highlight opportunities offered by innovative technologies and the new related services pro-vided by the roads and streets.

Bilbao (E), March 27-31 World Maritime Week Maritime Meeting which hosts 4 International Congresses with exhibition area: International Shipbuilding, FuturePort Bilbao, eurofishing, Marine Renewable Energy.

Beira (MOC), March 27-29 Intermodal Africa The 19

th Intermodal Africa 2018 brings together senior exec-

utive delegates from the world’s leading cargo owners, shippers, shipping lines, importers / exporters, logistics companies, freight forwarders, terminal operating compa-nies, ports, port equipment, railway operators and services suppliers.

April 2018 Deadline for application, April 8 SUMPs-Up call for cities to join its learning pro-gramme Does your city want support in developing a package of measures for a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP)? Do you want to learn more about the processes behind doing so? The six-month programmes combine knowledge transfer and testing and assessment with learning on concepts, ap-proaches, tools, and methodologies for SUMP development. Both programmes focus on the SUMP elaboration process. The activities blend online and face-to-face learning and exchange. Participants also benefit from a city-to-city review and one-to-one support from SUMPs-Up mobility experts. SUMPs-Up is seeking mobility and transport professionals active in local or regional transport planning authorities with sustainable mobility planning experience. Those currently elaborating their first SUMP are also encouraged to apply. http://sumps-up.eu/calls-funding/.

Brussels (B), April 9-12 Sustainability Bootcamp How does your organization take the step towards more sustainability? The Vrije Universiteit Brussel helps you out with a new and inspiring program. In a four days bootcamp, we combine lectures from our academic staff with testimo-nials from companies and institutions. Get inspired for inno-vation and meet peers in an open atmosphere at our green campus in Brussels! Audience will include: CEO’s, CSR-officers, environmental coordinators, policy makers, re-searchers and students. Registration is via the organizer, MOBI of Brussels Free University.

Atlanta (GA/USA), April 9-12 MODEX 2018 MODEX calls itself “The Greatest Supply Chain Show on Earth®“

Duisburg (D), April 10 5. Deutsch-Niederländische Logistikkonferenz

Newcastle (GB), April 10-11 13

th Open ENLoCC General Assembly

Once a year, the members of the Open ENLoCC network gather to exchange knowledge and project ideas, and to get to know not only each other’s specific strengths and contri-butions in the field, but also to exchange their points of view.

This year’s meeting is held at partner NewRail in Newcastle. Open ENLoCC welcomes institutions that are willing to join the network of regional logistics competence centers, to widen the scale and the scope of the exchange.

Zurich (CH), April 11-12 Logistics & Distribution 2018 The Logistics & Distribution is the Swiss national fair for intralogistics, distribution and e-logistics.

Call for Papers - Deadline, April 15 3

rd VREF Conference on Urban Freight

The conference under the motto “Designing urban space and managing flows – the importance of freight for liveable cities” will be held in Gothenburg, October 17-19. For more info on the conference and on details regarding submissions, see www.urbanfreightplatform.se.

Vienna (A), April 16-19 TRA 2018 Under the heading of “A digital Era for Transport”, the Transport Research Arena 2018 will explore, discuss and demonstrate the major paradigm shifts specifically directed at important areas of our life, such as transport, mobility, logistics and industrial production.

Cambridge (MA/USA), April 17 Crossroads 2018 New advances in artificial intelligence, the impact of self-drive vehicle technology and its evolution over the coming years, the policy and legal ramifications of autonomous vehicles, and the implications conversational commerce has on business operations are some of the developments that supply chain professionals will learn about at the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Moscow (RUS), April 17-19 Trans Russia/TransLogistica The largest exhibition of transport and logistics services and technologies in Russia. 345 companies from Russia and

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around the world took part in the 2017 edition. 14,745 industry professionals attended from 76 Russian Regions. Following the audit conducted by the Chamber of Com-merce and Industry of the Russian Federation and the Rus-sian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs, TransRussia has been declared the best in the line “Transport, Shipment, Ware-housing, and Logistics” in all the categories: “Profes-sional Interest”, “Exhibition Area”, “International Recognition” and “Market Coverage”.

Tacoma (WA/USA), April 17-19 Green Transportation Summit & Expo The Green Transportation Summit & Expo (GTSE) is the region’s premier fleet modernization and alternative fuels event offering a combination of information-packed ses-sions, prominent national and regional speakers, and the latest technologies from industry leaders.

Goyang-si (ROK), April 17-20 KOREA MAT 2018 Korea's biggest logistics exhibition covering materialhandling & logistics services. KOREA MAT is a platform to initiate or expand your market share in Asia-Pacific Region.

Livorno (I), April 18-19 6

th Med Ports 2018

A two days Conference dedicated to Shipping, Container Ports and Transport Logistics for the Mediterranean ports and shipping markets.

Europe / Germany (D), April 19 Supply Chain Day / Tag der Logistik Companies from the industrial, trading and logistics services sectors take visitors behind the scenes of logistics and supply chain management giving an insight into the wide variety of activities performed every day. Institutes, educational and training centres open their doors and present their projects. The event is organized by the German Logistics Association (BVL) and partners across Europe.

New York (NY/USA), April 19-20 Supply & Command A two day conference hosted by New York University’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication attend-ing scholars, writers, artists, and activists to submit talks organized around the logic of the supply chain from the perspective of communication and media studies, media history, and media anthropology.

Brussels (B), April 23-24 CIVITAS Urban Freight Conference NOVELOG, CITYLAB, SUCCESS and U-TURN, all members of the CIVITAS initiative, are organizing a joint final conference, to deliver a rich and consistent set of results on freight dis-tribution and service trips. It will be an interactive event, with presentations, breakout and poster sessions, work-shops and awards.

Dubai (UAE), April 23-25 Middle East & North Africa Transport Congress & Exhibition (MENA) Most attended public transport event in the Middle East and North Africa region. The 2018 theme of MENA,‘pioneering for customer happiness’, recognises the customer as the core of public transport service and incorporates happiness not only satisfaction.

Sosnowiec (PL), April 24-25 Transportex A 2 days event presenting products (like utility vehicles), services and institutions for transport compa

nies,carriers,freight forwarders and road transport,logistics companies,management of ports and terminals, logistics service providers, investors.

Birmingham (GB), April 24-26 The Commercial Vehicle Show 2018 Exhibition and conference.

May 2018 Birmingham (GB), May 1-3 Multimodal 2018 Now in its eleventh year, Multimodal is the UK and Ireland’s premier freight transport, logistics and supply chain man-agement event. Multimodal represents every logistics sector under one roof, making it a unique and highly valued indus-try showcase. Shippers and cargo owners attend to improve their businesses; by finding ways of moving their products more efficiently and by meeting new suppliers. Multimodal 2017 attracted 9,449 attendees.

Antwerp (B), May 3-4 The Port and Maritime Sector: Key Developments and Challenges Two-day international conference at University of Antwerp featuring presentations that deal with a topic that can be considered to be at current a key development in the port and maritime business, either at management, operational or policy level.

Prien / Chiemsee (D), May 8-9 Logistik Innovativ 2018 High-quality international speakers to work out solutions for one of the greatest European transport problems, the Alpine transit. The Symposium will include the Dialogue-Event and the Mid-term Conference of the European project „Alpine Innovation for Combined Transport (AlpInnoCT)“. You will be informed about the results of the project so far and can evaluate the results from your point of view. Enjoy a State Reception in the Hall of Mirrors at the Royal Palace of Her-renchiemsee, celebrate 100 Years Free State of Bavaria and 20 Years LKZ Prien.

Marrakech (MA), May 9-11 Eurolog 2018 EUROLOG is an annual international congress of the Europe-an Logistics Association to promote dialogue between ELA members, in particular the national organisations, on a neutral platform, and to provide a forum where highly re-puted speakers from important European industrial, trading and service companies can portray trends and strategies in the European logistics sector as well as best practice, and to use the resulting insights as a basis for formulating specific recommendations for the day-to-day work of the congress attendants.

Nicosia (CY), May 14-15 5

th European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mo-

bility Plans (SUMPs) This is Europe's leading annual event for all those involved in putting the SUMP concept into practice. It serves as a forum for policy makers and academics across Europe to network, debate key issues and exchange ideas on sustainable urban mobility planning. Attendance is free of charge. In line with the European Commission having dedicated the year 2018 to the promotion of multimodality, the theme of this year's conference is multimodality, with a focus on the integration of transport modes and combined mobility solutions for passengers and freight in cities and regions.

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Hamburg (D), May 15-16 Global Liner Shipping Global Maritime Hub invites you to join Global Liner Ship-ping conference on 15-16 May in Hamburg where over 150 industry professionals will gather to discuss big business, big data and big ideas to help you stay ahead of the game in liner shipping.

Antwerp (B), May 16-17 European Environmental Ports Conference 2018 The conference will examine the most pressing matters within the port industry such as: air quality, waste manage-ment, keeping up with compliance, improving relationships with the local area, onshore power supply and water quality.

Shanghai (PRC), May 16-18 Transport logistic China 2018 In recent years, transport logistic China has become the place to be for anybody in logistics, mobility, IT and supply chain management. For 2018 you can once again expect transport logistic China to welcome you with the entire spectrum of logistics products, technologies and service. Asia's biggest and most exciting logistics fair awaits you with a professionally organized and internationally relevant event.

Vilnius (LT), May 16-18 Transbaltica The largest exhibition in the Baltic States region aims at introducing what’s new on the market, challenges, innova-tions and relevant issues of the transport sector, encourag-ing the cooperation of transport businesses and the devel-opment of international business relations, contributing to the growth of domestic demand and to the developing of an attractive image of Lithuania as a modern transit country.

Poznań (PL), May 23-24 Polish Logistics Congress The Polish Logistics Congress focuses on the most current issues concerning transport, warehousing, logistic services, urban logistics and IT solutions. The "Logistics Market" exhi-bition is the only place in Poland where it is possible to get to know the full offer of IT service and ADC device providers, logistics operators, warehouse space developers, consult-ants, educational institutions and trade press.

In 2016, the Polish Logistics Congress gathered over 830 participants, 70 speakers, 65 exhibitors and visits to Amazon, Dachser and Imperial Tobacco.

Germany (D), May 24 In den Gängen / In the Aisles Movie release. See “News” section.

Skiathos Island (GRC), May 24-25 Conference on Sustainable Urban Mo-bility 2018 The theme of the 4th Conference on Sustain-able Urban Mobility, organized by the Uni-versity of Thessaly, is: “Data analytics: Paving the way to sustainable urban mobility”. The main aim of the CSUM is the dissemination of knowledge and the exchange of good practices among researchers and practition-ers in the domain of urban transportation.

Zaragoza (E), May 28-29 4

th Global Supply Chain Research Forum

This forum will encompass two events: the Research Fest on May 28, where final re-search projects will be presented, and the Research Panel Discussion on May 29, where companies and researchers will have an

opportunity for networking and discussing the latest re-search trends in logistics and supply chain management applied to real life success cases. Registration is by invitation only.

Windisch (Aargau / CH), May 29 Swiss Logistics Innovation Day & Logistics Hall of Fame This year’s motto is: „Internet der Logistik.” The Hall of Fame honours personalities who won outstanding merits in Swiss supply chain management and logistics.

Uppsala (S), May 30 – June 1 ECOMM 2018 ECOMM is the most important European platform for policy makers, traffic engineers and scientists in the field of mobili-ty. The 1

st edition took place in 1997 and since then the

conference is yearly organized in a different city in Europe.

Burgas (BG), May 31 – June 1 European Maritime Day 2018 The European Commission's Directorate General for Mari-time Affairs and Fisheries, the Bulgarian EU Presidency and the Municipality of Burgas are happy to invite you to Euro-pean Maritime Day 2018. It is the annual meeting point for Europe's maritime community to network, discuss and forge joint action.

June 2018 Amsterdam (NL), June 4-6 20

th annual EMEA

Supply Chain & Logistics Summit & Expo. Multiple targeted workshops, innovative Strategies & Practical Solutions in Supply Chain Planning & Management, new Logistics Models & Technologies.

Kassel (D), June 6 8

th Logistics-Day - Innovative Technologies and Smart

Logistics: Ambitions and Reality Smart and green logistics are aims and visions of the transport sector. Their realisation can only be achieved via digitalisation and alter-native drive technologies. The main focus of the 8

th Logistics-Day will be

expert lectures focusing on trends and future requirements as drive technologies, digitalisation and future logistics needs in urban areas. Olaf Toedter, head of new technolo-gies and fus system at KIT – Karlsruher Institut for Technolo-gy, opens the conference with his keynote: Why is e-mobility not future-compliant for the transportation of freight?

www.logistiktag.de.

Maaspoort, Venlo (NL), June 6-7 Cargo Innovation Conference

Baku (AZ), June 11-13 17

th Caspian International Transport,

Transit and Logistics Exhibition The TransCaspian exhibition brings together key public transport bodies and commercial organizations from the rail and commercial vehicle sectors, the maritime industry, avia-tion and transport and logistics services. The exhibition is an opportunity to showcase the latest developments in transportation tech-nology, meet with representatives of ports and logistics centres in the Caspian and South Caucasus regions.

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Magdeburg (D), June 13-14 9

th International Scientific Symposium on Logistics

The aim is to promote the exchange of ideas across special-ist and geographic borders in order to encourage the devel-opment of new models to provide solutions to real-world issues that are of relevance to researchers and scientists.

Stuttgart (D), June 17-19 9

th International Cities for Mobility Congress

The congress is addressed to municipal practitioners, deci-sion makers, researchers, entrepreneurs and initiatives from civil society and combines presentations with practical activ-ities, such as trainings, interactive workshops, excursions and contact forums. See ad on this page.

Gothenburg (S), June 19 Joint Final Conference for CIVIC and DenCity The theme of the day: From vision, through construction, to transport solutions for future dense cities. How do we plan our future dense cities? Transport solutions for the future cities. The day will include exciting results from the projects and opportunities for discussion and networking.

Deadline for public consultation, June 20 Public consultation on noise differentiated track access charges schemes This questionnaire contains questions aimed at a general public giving the citizens or citizens' associations a chance to

express their views on the reduction of rail freight noise, including via retrofitting, without going into technical de-tails. The European Commission intends to consult expert stakeholders (e.g. infrastructure managers, railway under-takings, wagon keepers, wagon owners, corporate umbrella organisations, research organisations or public authorities) with a targeted consultation in the second quarter of 2018. https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/2018-rail-noise?surveylanguage=EN

Lübeck (D), June 20-21 Shortsea Shipping Days 2018 The ShortSeaShipping Days are a conference accompanied by a trade event. Around 40 companies are showcased at the conference, which is held every two years. Topics of current interest in shortsea shipping will be on the agenda, including issues of sustainability, economic efficiency, devel-opment of European markets, and the effects of political regulation, as well as innovation and digitalization. Around 450 guests are expected.

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Open ENLoCC – the network Open ENLoCC (European Network of Logistics Competence Centers) is an open network of regional competence centers in the field of logistics, run by public authorities or similar bodies. It was established as a follow up of the “ENLoCC”-project (from 2004 to 2007), then co-financed by the EU under the Interreg IIIC programme. It is self-supporting since.

The main task of the network is international exchange of experience and knowledge between its participants, and promotion of a higher level of cooperation among European institutions.

Its members work together on common projects with the aim to develop the regional economy by solving infrastructural, organisational and technological problems of logistics and transport. Dissemination of results from network activities and of the best practices takes place on a wide scale.

As per December 2017, the European network of regional logistics competence centers Open ENLoCC has the following members:

CMS, Centre for Maritime Studies of Brahea Centre at the University of Turku (FI).

CRITT Transport et Logistique, Le Havre (F).

CTL, Centre for Transport and Logistics of the University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma (I).

Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung, Klagenfurt (A), for former member Entwicklungsagentur Kärnten, EAK.

HIT Hellenic Institute of Transport, Thessaloniki (GR).

ILiM, Institute of Logistics and Warehousing, Poznan (PL).

ITL, Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation, Bologna (I).

KINNO, Kouvola Innovation Oy, Kouvola (FI).

KLOK Kooperationszentrum Logistik e.V., Kornwestheim / Stuttgart (D).

LCS, Logistik-Cluster Schwaben (LCS) e.V., Augsburg (D).

Logistics in Wallonia, Liege (B).

Mah, Malmö University, Department of Urban Studies/Transport Management, Malmö (S).

MOBI, Vrije Universiteit Brussel – MOBI (Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Group) Brussels (B).

MoWiN.net e.V., Kassel (D).

NewRail, Newcastle University (GB).

UM, University of Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering – Transport Economics Centre, Maribor (SLO).

Fundación Valenciaport, Valencia (E). NEW

WRS, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart (D).

Consorzio ZAILOG, Verona (I).

Contact persons for Open ENLoCC:

Giuseppe Luppino, President of Open ENLoCC and Project Manager at the Institute for Transport and Logistics – ITL.

Martin Brandt, Secretary of Open ENLoCC and Project Manager at the logistics cooperation center KLOK in Stuttgart Region.

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