2008-03: Fifth Freightwise Project Management Committee meeting (PMC05) on the 2nd and 3rd of April in Rome (Italy)

The fifth Freightwise Project Management Committee meeting (PMC05) has been scheduled on the 2nd and 3rd of April in Rome (Italy).All the workpackage and business case leaders will meet together in order to review the work and make decisions on the current and future activities of the project. The Department of Hydraulics, Transport and Roads of "La Sapienza" University of Rome (DITS) is organizing the meeting in the historical building of the Engineering Faculty, located in the very centre of Rome, very close to the Colosseum. The Logistics and Transport Area of the Department has constituted a Centre of Excellence for Transport and Logistics, involved in Freightwise and in several research projects on the field.

2007-11: FREIGHTWISE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2007

FREIGHTWISE held its first conference in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK at the end of October. This was attended by over 80 representatives of the Freightwise partners and other interested parties. Speakers included John Berry of DG TREN on the Freightwise position in the EU’s Logistics Action Plan and Jan Tore Pedersen of BMT on the Freightwise approach to Intermodal Freight Transport Management. Other speakers followed who outlined the findings of case studies in many different areas including:

• Scandinavian forestry and steel industries;
• cross border transport links between Finland - Estonia, Finland – Russia and Estonia – Russia;
• an internet based portal to offer intermodal freight management services to SMEs;
• improving electronic messaging and better use of traffic information in Benelux;
• improving the shipment of heavy cargo on the Elbe;
• supporting rail-based solutions between Germany and Greece;
• exploring the preconditions for improving intermodal transport solutions of steel products in the Port of Gijon;
• developments in advanced logistics information exchange in a rail transport service connecting Paris-Piacenza-Gliwice.

Copies of the presentations may be accessed in the Teamspace section of the Freightwise website under WP16 Dissemination, training and education/Conference.

2007-08: First annual international conference on the 31th October 2007

The Freightwise project invites you to it's first annual international conference at the Life Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne on the 31st October 2007. The conference will be preceded by a dinner at the Life Centre on the evening of the 30th October. This will be an opportunity to hear how the project has started, progressed and is developing in many of the key areas of work, focusing on the industrial cases where the Freightwise Framework will be utilised. This is an opportunity to hear how the new Logistics Action Plan incorporating co-modality from the EC DGTREN is developing. This is an opportunity to network with both the 55 research, commercial and industrial partners within Freightwise and the wider ICT and intermodal research community that will attend. The event will be chaired by Tom Zunder, an experienced line manager and intermodal researcher, and will include John Berry from DG TREN as a keynote speaker. This event is open to all and it is free of charge. Please read the full invitation (PDF) and you can register using our form at www.freightwise.info/conference-registration.

2007-08: next Freightwise Project Management Committee on the 30th October 2007

The next Freightwise Project Management Committee will be held at the Research Beehive, room 2.20, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, on the 30th October 2007. It will start at 9.30 am, will conclude around 5pm. The meeting is for Freightwise workpackage leaders and case leaders only. Please register using our form.

2007-05: Project Event 23rd and 24th May in Thessaloniki

The Hellenic Institute of Transport hosted the Project Management Committee meeting on the 23rd and 24th of May at its premises in the Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) technology park in Thessaloniki.

2006-11: FREIGHTWISE kick-off meeting

Thanks to all participants for attending the FREIGHTWISE Kickoff meeting in Brussels on 16 November 2006. You can now download the Workpackage and Case presentations. Many thanks to the Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón en Bruselas for the generous hosting of the Kick-off and the PMC meeting at the Casa de Asturias. It was a wonderful venue and there was excellent food!