COREALIS, a Port of the Future project that addressed the call MG-7-3-2017 of the H2020 Transport Work Programme, brings together a complementary consortium composed of 17 partners, from 9 European and associated countries, ranging from very large and medium ports, to top-level research institutes, ITS associations and well-established industrial partners and SMEs.

COREALIS proposes a strategic, innovative framework, supported by disruptive technologies, including Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, next generation traffic management and emerging 5G networks, for cargo ports to handle upcoming and future capacity, traffic, efficiency and environmental challenges. COREALIS innovations target to increase efficiency and optimise land use of ports, while being financially viable, respecting circular economy principles and being of service to the urban environment. The innovations will be implemented and tested in real operating conditions in 5 Living Labs (Piraeus, Valencia, Antwerp, Livorno and Haminakotka port) and are briefly named below:

• The COREALIS Green Truck Initiative, that implements: i) A dynamic Truck Appointment System aiming to coordinate and optimise the arrival of trucks according to the city traffic, terminal and other operations in the port area, so that queues, waiting times and congestion are minimised  ii) The Marketplace and chassis brokerage platform allowing online booking of port equipment and services
• The COREALIS PORTMOD, aiming to increase operational efficiency, safety for personnel, emission analysis and improved data sharing by modelling and optimising cargo and data flows within a port
• The COREALIS RTPORT, that implements a system for real time control of port operations over a 5G network
• The COREALIS Predictor, for a dynamic and optimised port asset management.
• The COREALIS Cargo Flow Optimiser, aiming to facilitate the port managers and urban planners in their infrastructure investment planning by optimising cargo flows across all transport modes
• The COREALIS Port of the Future Serious Game, aiming to assess the feasibility and sustainability of the socio-economic and environmental development of a port within the surrounding coastal and urban area.
• The COREALIS Green Cookbook, aiming to help ports to lower their environmental footprint, assess their energy profiles and move to cleaner transport modes and cleaner energy sources.
• The COREALIS Innovation Incubator Scheme, aiming to make the port the epicentre of the local industrial landscape and support the growth of local entrepreneur SMEs and startups.

These port-driven technological and societal innovations are tailored to realise COREALIS high level objectives, which are focused on:
O1. Embracing circular economy models in port strategy and operations.
O2. Reducing the port’s total environmental footprint.
O3. Improving operational efficiency by optimising yard capacity and streamlining cargo flows without additional infrastructural investments.
O4. Enabling the port to take informed medium-term and long-term strategic decisions and become an innovation hub of the local urban space.

SEAbility is the COREALIS Dissemination Manager, leading the corresponding Work Package and responsible for developing and implementing the project communication/dissemination strategy and tools. It is also involved in ensuring the Post-Project Exploitation Strategy and adoption of the COREALIS innovations, in supporting the Port of the Future Serious Game, in contributing to COREALIS personas and user stories/scenarios identification as well as in participating in the stakeholder’s engagement in the Piraeus Living Lab.

Project newsletters:

• COREALIS first newsletter
• COREALIS second newsletter
• COREALIS third newsletter
• COREALIS forth newsletter

Project video:

COREALIS project video