The 6th International Physical Internet Conference 2019 (IPIC) was held in Church House, Westminster, London, between 9th-11th of July 2019. SEABillity Ltd was one of the COREALIS H2020 project representatives.
Aim of the conference was to provide researchers, industry representatives, government officials and citizens with an open forum in order to give them the opportunity to together explore, discuss, introduce leading edge concepts, methodologies, recent projects, technological advancements, startup initiatives, for current and future Physical Internet implementation. The topics of the conference consisted of interconnected logistics, PI fundamentals, business models, governance and implementation, cross-chain control, synchromodal transportation, IT systems, stakeholders and their roles.
COREALIS has been represented in IPIC2019, through the presentation of two papers and one poster. Papers were related to Sustainable port development: towards the Physical Internet concept and RTPORT: the 5G-based Model-Driven real Time Module for General Cargo Management respectively, while the poster was targeted to Big Data and Data Analytics for the Ports of the Future.
SEAbility participated in the ‘’Ports and Hubs as the PI Cornerstone’’ session, where the concept of Physical Internet in the context of Future Logistics and how this concept paves the way towards the Port of the Future vision for sustainable port development, was presented.
Information on the conference program can be accessed here
For more information about COREALIS: https://www.corealis.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no 768994. Content reflects only the authors’ view and European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.