ESC and ALICE have successfully organised the first AUTOSUP webinar on “How can EU policy foster collaboration and data sharing in multimodal freight transport?“. There were six speakers providing insights on the key questions around automation in ports, data sharing, and multimodal freight transport.
Matteo Nenciolini (ESC) gave an introduction to the webinar by providing the future vision of ports together with the existing challenges, Giuseppe Luppino (ALICE) and Karen Van Brussel (Port of Antwerp & Bruges) provided their insights in future ports, including the current states and issues to address, Nelson Coelho (Aalborg University) reflected on existing legal frameworks and hurdles with respect to automation, Zeljko Jeftic (EINRIDE) shared the progress on automation and issues related to markets in Europe, the US, and Middle East, and eventually Dominique Willems (DCSA) highlighted progress and hurdles around digitalisation, data exchange, standards, and other topics around container transport.
The programme of the webinar and further details can be found here. ESC is also working on the minutes and will upload these together with the presentations of the speakers. Stay tuned!
AUTOSUP information
AUTOSUP is a European-funded project defining the transition path for transforming SC nodes such as ports and intermodal hubs into seamlessly operating multimodal automatic freight transport platforms.
In AUTOSUP, the partners will develop concrete operational models for end-to-end intermodal logistics, focusing on the link of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges and the Port of Trieste with road corridors, rail, inland waterways and airports. The two ports will serve as ‘Living Hubs’ (LH) in which the operational and cost efficiency, and user acceptance of the automation solutions will be validated in the 6 use cases which cover all existing and also new modes of transport.