📌 🗓️ The #WISTAR Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) consortium : NEAC-INDUSTRY, CIRCOÉ, Multitel LOGISTICS IN WALLONIA, VSL NRW gathered in #Duisbourg on 19-20 September for the 1st Executive Committee meeting hosted by a lead partner Universität Duisburg-Essen, (specialized department in #logistics and transportation), for project management session, progress update on activities & enriching visits with the associated partners supporting a #German pilot for promoting #Sustainable #Waterway #Transport for Rural Business. These two days were packed with transnational exchanges to explore the advancements in waterborne transport, full #automation capability, #multimodal logistics concepts, #handling technologies, and to identify the commercial potential insights into the feasibility of using inland waterways for small rural businesses in northwestern #Germany. 💡 #WISTAR partners express heartful thanks to Cyril Alias & Lea Corbeck for discovering an impressive research capability of DST - Entwicklungszentrum für Schiffstechnik und Transportsysteme e. V. including: - Maneuvering Model Test Basin (25 metre long) to conduct a wide variety of experiments on shipping and logistics operations in shallow waters - a miniature handling equipment: the scaled system replicates the real system - a ship models to simulate the container inland vessels - a boat crew training simulator - a control station for automated ship, and for remotely control operations with3Dcapable-projectors for environment representation 🔎 Further appreciation is owed to kioske GmbH company, Thorsten Jander for presentation an automated vending machines and configurable pick-up stations for supporting #rural #businesses (#agriculture). This solution based on digital operations meet the consumer trend for regional products by #shortcircuit, fulfil the customer’s desire to be able to shop around the clock and reduce staffing cost. 🙏 We extend our sincerest gratitude to professor Bernd Noche, Melissa Szymiczek, Jaydeep Chaukekar from Universität Duisburg-Essen for the very warm hospitality & the outstanding organization !!! 📣 Stay tuned for more updates following the project 👉 https://lnkd.in/durc4uJ6 Theo Delferriere I Yves de Blic I Loïc Pecher I Oskar Maslowski I Markus Erdmann I Bernard Piette I Muriel Andurand Alain ALLIOT I Inna Alliot-Polgoui I Rebecca Grossberg #SustainableTransport #inlandwaterways #IWT #InterregNWE #NWE #Greenenergy
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