Past Projects

PLATINA3 was a Horizon 2020 funded EU ‘Coordination and support action’ which centred around inland navigation and waterways. It provided targeted coordination and support activities to promote Inland Waterways Transport (IWT) in Europe and it was the successor of previous projects PLATINA and PLATINA II which provided implementation support to the European Commission for the NAIADES I and II action ...

ENTRANCE was a Horizon 2020 funded ‘Coordination and support action’ which brought together 15 partners from 8 European countries. It ran over three years, started 1 January 2021 and was coordinated by the Italian company CIAOTECH. ENTRANCE seeked to develop a common European matchmaking platform and complementary off-line services designed to mobilise financial resources to accelerate the market access and ...

PLANET was a Horizon 2020 (H2020) project which started on 1 June 2020 and ran for three years until 31 May 2023. PLANET addressed the challenges of assessing the impact of emerging global trade corridors on the TEN-T network and ensuring effective integration of the European to the Global Network by focusing on a Geo-economics approach, modelling and specifying the ...

FENIX was a 4 year long Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) project aiming to support the development, validation and deployment of the digital information systems along the EU transport Core Network. There were 43 partners from 11 European countries in FENIX representing the logistics community of shippers, logistics service providers, mobility infrastructure providers, cities, and authorities.

ICONET was a 30 month EU-funded project focussing on the Physical Internet (PI) and improving its infrastructure, architecture, and future operations within it. ICONET was launched in September 2018 with 16 partners from 10 European countries coordinated by the Belgian Inlecom group and ended in February 2021.

The iCargo project aimed at advancing and extending the use of ICT to support new logistics services that synchronize vehicle movements and logistics operations across various modes and actors to lower CO2 emissions; adapt to changing conditions through dynamic planning methods involving intelligent cargo, vehicle and infrastructure systems and; combine services, resources and information from different stakeholders, taking part in ...

BESTFACT is the first portal for freight transport best practices endorsed by the EC (DG MOVE). It integrates four areas of freight logistics in Europe: Urban Freight; Green Logistics & Co-modality and e-Freight.

Consistently Optimised Resilient Secure Global Supply Chains (CORE), is one of the largest European research and demonstration projects. The circa 70 Partners in CORE demonstrated that supply chain security innovations researched and developed in previous projects such as CASSANDRA work in practice. ESC has coordinated the CORE project.

Businesses that measure their emissions have the opportunity to make informed decisions that lead to improved efficiency and reduced emissions. The Logistics Emissions Accounting and Reduction Network project (LEARN) empowers business to reduce their carbon footprint across their global logistics supply chains.