DocksTheFuture workshop with experts took place in Porto, on the 29th and 30th of October. The workshop was hosted by APDL (Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo) in the Port of Leixões.

The event was a great success and aimed at getting the vision, sharing knowledge and ideas about the Port of The Future: the DocksTheFuture project. The participants were from different sectors of the maritime and port industry. There were experts from a wide range of organizations and institutions like Maritime & Mediterranean Economy Department at SRM, Hellenic Institute of Transport , the Baltic Ports Organization, Fraunhofer IFF’s Digital Innovation Hub, ALICE, PIXEL Ports Project, Delft University of Technology, University of Genova, Port of Barcelona, Kühne Logistics University (KLU), Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport, PortExpertise, PIXEL, Irish Maritime Development Office, KEDGE Business School, and so on.

AlexioPicco, the coordinator of DocksTheFuture, welcomed the experts to the event at the Port of Leixões. The interesting discussions went on five breakout sessions in the following topics:

  1. Digitalisation and digital transformation
  2. Sustainability
  3. Port-city relation
  4. Infrastructure, means of transport, and accessibility, and
  5. Competition, cooperation, and bridging R&D and implementation

SEAbility represented COREALIS project and participated in two out of the five breakout sessions (Port-city relation & Digitalisation and digital transformation) by providing insights and current trends to the proactive discussions.

SEAbility represented COREALIS project and participated in two out of the five breakout sessions (Port-city relation & Digitalisation and digital transformation) by providing insights and current trends to the proactive discussions.

More info can be obtained here.