Nautical Enterprise

eFreight & PROPS Workshop, Cork Port, July 2011

The eFreight/ PROPS Workshop “Transport Innovation for the Advancement of Trade’ was held in Cork Port Company, Ireland on 19th July 2011. The workshop was organised by Nautical Enterprise (NECL), Irish Exporters Association (IEA) and Cork Port Company (CPC). Forty five people with various Maritime Transport & Logistics interests and from six European states attended the workshop.

The purpose of the workshop was to draw upon the developments in the European-funded research projects eFreight and PROPS and to present them to the Maritime & Logistics industry with a particular emphasis on Ireland. The subject areas of the workshop were:

• Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through e-Freight developments;
• Resource Efficient Transport and Distribution Systems;
• Pioneering Transport Solutions for intra-European trades;

The presentations made at the workshop are as follows:

1. ) Port of Cork – Realising its Potential for servicing Irelands Trade – Brendan Keating

2.) e-Freight Capabilities – Mary Vayou

3.) Benefits of Achieving Competitive & Resource Efficient Transport Systems – Gerry Trant

4.) Difficulties & Solutions to accessing Distribution Networks in Europe – John Wheelan

5.) Process Mapping in a Container Terminal as a contributor to Optimal Resource Utilisation – Gerard Degan

6.) Developemnts in e-Freight to achieve major improvements in multi modael transport – Tom Cane

 

The papers for the workshop are:

1) Single Transport Document – Tom Kane

2) National Single Window – Tom Kane

3) Competitive Resource Efficient Transport – Gerry Trant