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Tenth Opening Ceremony of the MTMM
program, Fourth Opening Ceremony of the MTME program and First Opening Ceremony
of the Pg.Dip. TLM program
On September
29, ITMMA launched the tenth edition of the M.Sc. program in Transport and
Maritime Management (MTMM) as well as the fourth edition of the M.Sc. program in
Transport and Maritime Economics (MTME). On top of this, ITMMA welcomed the
first students for its brand new post graduate program in Transport and
Logistics Management. This highly specialized post-experience program is
developed for middle-management transport and logistics professionals and
high-potential students with a background in business studies wanting to
increase their knowledge of the specialist areas of transport and logistics
management. This year about 50 students are joining the three ITMMA programs
coming from 20 countries worldwide.
During the
opening ceremony, Mr. Jean-Jacques Westerlund, chairman of Alfaport Antwerpen,
addressed a word of welcome to the audience. Dr. Theo Notteboom proclaimed the
results of the second session of the MTMM and MTME 2004-2005 programs.
The classes of 2005-2006
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MSC Containerization Awards 2005
At the
occasion of the opening ceremony, Mr. Maurizio Aponte, European director of MSC,
announced the winners of the MSC Containerization Awards 2005. This year’s MSC
Diamond Award of € 3.000 went to Mrs. Feliciana Ferreira Monteiro (Portugal,
class of 2004-2005) for her thesis on ‘Competition in the Mediterranean
Container Market’. Mr. Bugra Beydilli (Turkey, class of 2004-2005) received the
MSC Gold Award, worth € 2000, for his thesis on ‘Overcapacity Strategies in
container Liner Shipping Industry: marketing approach’. Mr. Lawrence Henesey
(USA, class of 1998-1999) won the MSC Encouragement Award of € 1000 for his book
‘Enhancing Container terminal Performance: a multi agent systems approach’.
ITMMA thanks Mediterranean Shipping Company for their continuous support to
ITMMA and its students.
Mr. Bugra Beydilli receives the MSC Gold
Award from Mr. Maurizio Aponte
The winner of the MSC Diamond Award,
Mrs. Feliciana Ferreira Monteiro
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ITMMA and Alfaport sign co-operation agreement
On 29
December 2005, during the opening ceremony of ITMMA, Rudi De Meyer, director
of Alfaport Antwerpen, and Prof. Dr. Willy Winkelmans, Dean of ITMMA, signed
an agreement to strengthen mutual exchange and co-operation. Alfaport
Antwerpen serves the interests of all logistics players located in the Antwerp
port. Alfaport Antwerpen groups various branch organizations whose members are
engaged in port-related and logistics activities. With the co-operation
agreement, Alfaport Antwerpen underlines the role the organization attributes
to academic input in formulating its policy. Alfaport Antwerpen and ITMMA will
mutually open their networks so as to further intensify business contacts
between the academic world and the port industry.
Rudi De Meyer, director of Alfaport
Antwerpen (left) and Prof. Dr. Willy Winkelmans, Dean of ITMMA (right)
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Successful short-term course for staff of Waterwegen en Zeekanaal NV
In September-October 2005, ITMMA
organized a short-term course on mobility for about 25 employees of Waterwegen
& Zeekanaal NV (W&Z). W&Z manages the Flemish waterways and adjacent land,
excluding seaports and the waterways under the authority of De Scheepvaart NV.
W&Z stimulates the multifunctional use of the waterways and looks after
security aspects such as flood risks. The short-term course covered topic such
as mobility, intermodality, logistics costs and
modal choice, network design, barge and rail operations and transport policy.
The short-term course was concluded by an interactive discussion day on
current issues in the interest of W&Z. Looking back, Mr. Marc Van Dyck, head
of the Department Commercial Management at W&Z, says to be extremely pleased
with the content and format of the short-term course.
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Ahlers welcomes the ITMMA classes of 2005-2006
Ahlers
Logistic and Maritime Services is an international logistic and maritime
service provider with a network of own offices in Europe, Asia and CIS/Baltic
(www.ahlers.com).
Ahlers is part of the AXE Group of Companies. The company is headquartered in
the port of Antwerp, Belgium and counts 45 offices worldwide. On October 4,
Ahlers hosted a welcoming event for the ITMMA students. Mr. Luc Maton,
corporate agencies at Ahlers and Wim Daems, corporate HR, underlined the
group’s international orientation in business development and human resource
management. Every year Ahlers grants an award for the best ITMMA thesis in
logistics.
Mr. Luc Maton (second from right) with a few ITMMA students
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Zooming into the economic significance
of the Belgian dredging industry
Recently,
ITMMA concluded a report on the economic significance and the competitive
position of the Belgian dredging industry, a study commissioned by the Belgian
Federation of Dredging Works (Federatie der Baggerwerken vzw).The Belgian
dredging companies account for about 28 per cent of the open world market
(based on turnover). Both DEME and Jan De Nul are world players in the market
with a joint turnover of nearly € 1.4 million in 2003 and a direct employment
of about 4700 fte. On top of this, the dredging industry generates an indirect
value-added in other economic sectors of € 150 million and an indirect
employment of approximately 2000 fte. The Belgian dredging industry is highly
innovative, both in terms of dredging techniques as well as transfer of
know-how.
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Update on research at ITMMA
Private and public research
projects at ITMMA fuel the interactivity and practical relevance of education
and research. ITMMA is working together with the Antwerp Maritime Academy on a
simulation model for the maritime access to the port of Antwerp to be used
during classes and for research on optimizing port performance. Another
research project, this time in co-operation with Hogeschool Antwerpen,
involves a pre-feasibility study for an underground transport system between
the left and the right banks of the Antwerp port. A few months ago, a report
on ‘Strategic Port Development Projects’ was finalized in the framework of the
SPIN project (Stimulation and Promotion of Inland Navigation) of the European
Commission. Recently, a two-year project on the preparation of a long-term
vision for the Flemish ports policy commissioned by the Ministry of the
Flemish Community was finalized. In co-operation with the main contractor
Resource Analysis, the input of ITMMA mainly focused on the assessment of
market developments and its impact on port policy. In association with the
Flemish Institute for Logistics, a study on port labour in the Flemish ports
is about to go public. ITMMA is also involved in the project evaluation
process of the Westerscheldt Container Terminal in the port of Flushing (the
Netherlands). ITMMA also concluded two major industrial research projects on
optimizing the production and distribution network for an American and for a
Scandinavian multinational.
For more
information please contact our research coordinators Dr. Theo Notteboom (theo.notteboom@ua.ac.be)
and Dr. Wout Dullaert (wout.dullaert@ua.ac.be).
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Worth mentioning: ITMMA papers and keynote speeches … in Belgium and abroad
You could
have met ITMMA team professors presenting their latest research output at the
following events:
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International Conference on Port-Maritime
Development and Innovation, Rotterdam, 5-7 September, 2005
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Workshop PORTNET on ‘port package’, port
security and co-operation, Antwerp, 14-16 September, 2005
· Conference
on ‘liner conferences’, European Maritime Law Organisation (EMLO), London, 14
October, 2005
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News from ITMMA alumni
FILIP DE KEERSMAECKER (Belgium, MTMM
Class 1996-1997), current Vice President Operations Tools for Irwin Industrial
Tools Europe, a subsidiary of Newell Rubbermaid, will become Regional (EMEA)
Supply Chain Director for the Consumer Division of Johnson & Johnson.
TONG THACH CHUONG (Vietnam, MTMM
Class 2004-2005) has taken up the position of General Manager at Semblog-SGN
Vietnam, a logistics company which is part of the Temasak Holding of
Singapore.
KONG LINGHANG (China, MTMM Class
2004-2005) has taken up the position of international business developer at
Qingdao City Logistics Association, a government agency aiming at promoting
Qingdao as a regional and international logistics center.