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This page will keep you posted on SIG-2 activities. In case you wish to be kept informed through mailing, please send a blank e-mail. Two-day International Conference CRITICAL ISSUES IN THE PORT AND MARITIME SECTOR WCTRS - Special Interest Group 2 7-8 May 2009 With the kind support of: Department of Transport & Regional Economics / Research Center on Commodity Flows Port of Antwerp Authority Pictures of the event are now available TARGET The significance of the port and maritime sector is increasing in a globalising world. Hence the need for knowledge concerning new and future developments. A lead in knowledge strengthens the competitive level as well in science as in society and business. On 7 and 8 May 2009, the Special Interest Group 2 (Ports and Maritime) of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), co-chaired by Eddy Van de Voorde from the Department and Enrico Musso (University of Genova / TRANSPORTNET), will host a two-day international conference under the title ‘Critical issues in the port and maritime sector’. It will be held at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics / Research Centre Commodity Flows of the University of Antwerp. The conference will present a state of the art of scientific developments which are of use to academicians, business people and policy-makers. It features a rich selection of papers made after the abstract submission process. Selected submissions originate from both academic or business responsibles active in the maritime and port field, and deal with topics that can be considered to be at current a critical issue in the port and maritime business, either at management, operational or policy level. The full program is now available online. This conference is therefore not just a conference, but has a number of specific features: Finished research and as well ‘research in process’ can be presented and discussed; The objective is to make scientists and practisers meet; The stress lays on interdisciplinarity, i.e. all disciplines will be treated (engineering, economy, legal, mathematic,…); The subjects are about theory and empiry, secondly derived products; New research areas and business opportunities will be dealt with. The Special Interest Group is an active unit of the WCTRS. The framework of the conference lays in the preperation of the 12^th World Congress that will take place in 2010 in Lisbon. After the Antwerp conference, the presented papers will be collected in special magazine issues and opportunity will be given to elaborate on program building for Lisbon. PROGRAM PRACTICAL INFORMATION

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This page will keep you posted on SIG-2 activities. In case you wish to be kept informed through mailing, please send a blank e-mail.

Two-day International Conference

CRITICAL ISSUES IN THE PORT AND MARITIME SECTOR

WCTRS - Special Interest Group 2

7-8 May 2009

With the kind support of:

Department of Transport & Regional Economics / Research Center on Commodity Flows

Port of Antwerp Authority

Pictures of the event are now available

TARGET

The significance of the port and maritime sector is increasing in a globalising world. Hence the need for knowledge concerning new and future developments. A lead in knowledge strengthens the competitive level as well in science as in society and business.

On 7 and 8 May 2009, the Special Interest Group 2 (Ports and Maritime) of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), co-chaired by Eddy Van de Voorde from the Department and Enrico Musso (University of Genova / TRANSPORTNET), will host a two-day international conference under the title ‘Critical issues in the port and maritime sector’. It will be held at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics / Research Centre Commodity Flows of the University of Antwerp.

The conference will present a state of the art of scientific developments which are of use to academicians, business people and policy-makers. It features a rich selection of papers made after the abstract submission process. Selected submissions originate from both academic or business responsibles active in the maritime and port field, and deal with topics that can be considered to be at current a critical issue in the port and maritime business, either at management, operational or policy level. The full program is now available online.

This conference is therefore not just a conference, but has a number of specific features:

Finished research and as well ‘research in process’ can be presented and discussed;

The objective is to make scientists and practisers meet;

The stress lays on interdisciplinarity, i.e. all disciplines will be treated (engineering, economy, legal, mathematic,…);

The subjects are about theory and empiry, secondly derived products;

New research areas and business opportunities will be dealt with.

The Special Interest Group is an active unit of the WCTRS. The framework of the conference lays in the preperation of the 12^th World Congress that will take place in 2010 in Lisbon. After the Antwerp conference, the presented papers will be collected in special magazine issues and opportunity will be given to elaborate on program building for Lisbon.

PROGRAM

PRACTICAL INFORMATION