Institute record of Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp

Information

Type
Organization
Type
https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
Name
Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp
Name
Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp@en
Acronym
UA-ITMMA
Parent institute
Universiteit Antwerpen
Address
ITMMA House, Kipdorp 59, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Contact numbers
Telephone
+32-(0)3-265 51 51
Location
latitude
51.2213924
longitude
4.4091834
Description @en
The Institute of Transport and Maritime Management (ITMMA) of the University of Antwerp is one of the first institutes in the world to offer highly specialised academic and practice-oriented maritime and logistics education and research. Aside from research, they offer MSc and PhD programs, and manage short-term courses, events and conferences. The research activities of ITMMA cover various areas in the fields of transport, maritime economics and management. Research is performed on topics such as port and maritime transport, market organisation, (hinterland) transportation and the integration of transport and logistics. ITMMA develops quantitative techniques and management tools for strategic market analysis, policy formulation and logistic network optimisation. The maritime research performed by ITMMA focuses on port and maritime economy and management with emphasis on port competitiveness, strategic port planning, maritime traffic forecasting, shipping networks, etc.
Description @nl
Het Institute of Transport and Maritime Management (ITMMA) van de Universiteit Antwerpen is één van de eerste instituten ter wereld die gespecialiseerd en praktijkgericht maritiem en logistiek academisch onderzoek en onderwijs aanbieden. De activiteiten omvatten naast het onderzoek ook master en doctoraatsprogramma’s en het inrichten van cursussen, evenementen en conferenties. De onderzoeksactiviteiten van het ITMMA situeren zich in het veld van transport en maritieme economie en beheer. Er wordt onderzoek verricht naar onderwerpen zoals havens en maritiem transport, marktorganisatie, (hinterland-)transport en de integratie van transport en logistiek. Het instituut ontwikkelt kwantitatieve technieken en beheerinstrumenten voor strategische marktanalyse, beleidsondersteuning en de optimalisatie van logistieke netwerken. Het maritiem onderzoek aan het ITMMA richt zich op haven/maritieme economie en management, en meer bepaald thema’s als havencompetitiviteit, strategische havenplanning, voorspelling van het maritieme verkeer, scheepnetwerken, etc.

Events

ITMMA Maritime and Port Symposium 2006

Members

Theo Notteboom
César Ducruet
Kateryna Grushevska

Past members

Wout Dullaert
role: Assistant professor
Wouter Jacobs
Frank Van Laeken
Lu Chen
role: PhD
Darren Fraser
role: PhD
Li Jinyu
Evangelia Kaselimi
John Layaa
Christophe Theys
role: Research assistant
Dries Verbraeken
Bert Vernimmen
role: Junior researcher
Indra Vonck
Siyuan Wang
Willy Winkelmans
role: Chairman of the Executive Board
Jie Wu
role: Research assistent
Wei Yim Yap

Expertise

Economics
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 2631
Harbour economics
Logistics
defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
term code: 76941
Logistics
defined term set: Transportation Research Thesaurus
term code: 93674
Marine transportation
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 5028
Supply chain management
defined term set: Transportation Research Thesaurus
term code: 93683
Transport
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 8726

Special collections

Marine expertise
Marine expertise: Speciality: Maritime sciences
Marine expertise: Type: Flemish university
ScheldeMonitor
Shipping
Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium

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date created: 2005-02-11
date modified: 2015-03-25