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Latest Research & News
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We are happy to announce the release of our three new PortForward video clips!
Our three brand new video clips about the PortForward project are online - ready to be discovered by you! Please find online following PortForward video clips: PortForward | Towards a smart, green and interconnected [...]
PortForward in European Journal of Operational Research
Afshin Mansouri, PI of the Brunel University London’s PortForward team, together with Ramin Raeesi and Navid Sahebjamnia, former Research Fellows of the project, have been invited by the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), [...]
How Ports de Balears use case »Monitoring of Port Authority’s activities« could help to minimize the effect of COVID-19
Project Partners Ports de Balears and LEITAT in collaboration with the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain are valuing the potential use of PortForward use case related to the prediction of port-city interactions. The [...]
Dr. Heiko Maly, Managing Director of the Port of Magdeburg has been elected to the Digital Advisory Board in Saxony-Anhalt
The Digital Advisory Board, which was set up in 2018, will continue to support the Ministry of Economic Affairs in implementing the »Digital Agenda« for Saxony-Anhalt over the next two years. Minister Prof. Dr. [...]
1st Report on the Carbon Footprint for the Port Network Authority of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea
On September 12th, 2019 in Livorno the first report on the carbon footprint for the Port Network Authority of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea has been presented. The report is a useful starting point for [...]
PortForward develops a fast and scalable Green Yard Scheduler
Environmental sustainability of container terminals is challenged by the increasing goods transport that culminates in busier operations, which leads to considerable levels of greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption of cargo handling equipment. The [...]
PortForward In The Press
View and download the latest PortForward Project related videos, articles and publications.
German television station MDR reports about the PortForward project
German television MDR produced on September 11th, 2019 a segment on the digitalization of the Magdeburg Port for its science magazine »MDR Wissen«. PortForward coordinator Christian Blobner presented the VR Model of the Magdeburg [...]
The PortForward Project in the Port Technology Journal
Prof. Afshin Mansouri from the Brunel University London and Stefanos Kokkorikos from the Core Innovation & Technology O.E. Athens have introduced the PortForward Project to practitioners and policy makers who are among the readership [...]
Researchers are Working on Digitizing the European Ports
June 28th, 2018. Digitization can help ports and shipping to reduce costs and make processes even more efficient. Research institutes, companies and harbors from six European countries now want to work together to develop [...]
Conferences & Meetings
Here you will learn about the upcoming and past conferences and meetings related to the PortForward Project.
8th Project Management Meeting in Athens, Greece on May 4th-5th, 2022
The PortForward consortium team came together one last time for the 8th Project Management Meeting in Athens, Greece on Mai 4th - 5th, 2022. Owing to the COVID-19 and its related restrictions the meeting [...]
PortForward’s 4th Advisory Board meeting
As PortForward enters its last few months, the Advisory Board continues to meet and discuss the project’s advances. The 4th Advisory Board meeting took place virtually on Tuesday, February 8th with 12 attendees in [...]
PortForward is invited to take part in the 2022 World of Shipping Portugal Conference on January 27th – 28th, 2022
The 2022 World of Shipping Portugal - an International Research Conference on Maritime Affairs - will take place as an online event on January 27th-28th, 2022. The central theme of the conference is “Maritime [...]
PortForward’s 3rd Advisory Board meeting
On Wednesday October 27th, PortForward’s 3rd Advisory Board meeting was held successfully online. In total, there were 19 participants and 2 Use Cases were presented: the Port Authority Dashboard (PAD) Use Case and the [...]
7th Project Management Meeting in Naples on November 10th-11th, 2021
The PortForward consortium team came together again for the 7th Project Management Meeting in Naples on November 10th-11th. Owing to the COVID-19 and its related restrictions the meeting took place as a hybrid event combining [...]
PortForward at the Meeting of the DVF Steering Committee for Ports and Shipping in Magdeburg on November 4th, 2021
On November 4, 2021, the German Transport Forum's Steering Group Ports and Shipping met at the Fraunhofer IFF, Magdeburg. The agenda of the meeting included topics such as digitalization, automation, climate protection and sustainable marine [...]