Project description
Setting sail for future logistics chains
The seamless transport of goods is a top priority of the trade and logistics sector. Focussing on the technological and operational opportunities that the physical internet, synchromodal operations and other disruptive technologies provide, the EU-funded ePIcenter project will develop new solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency and sustainability of global supply chains. This will enable all players in global trade and international authorities to cooperate with ports, logistics companies and shippers and to respond to volatile political and market changes. Headed by a consortium of 35 partners representing leading ports, forwarders, cargo owners, logistics providers, knowledge institutions and technology firms, the overall aim of the project is to create a sustainable logistics chain of the future.
Objective
ePIcenter will create an interoperable cloud-based ecosystem of user-friendly extensible Artificial Intelligence-based logistics software solutions and supporting methodologies that will enable all players in global trade and international authorities to co-operate with ports, logistics companies and shippers, and to react in an agile way to volatile political and market changes and to major climate shifts impacting traditional freight routes.
This will address the ever-increasing expectations of 21st century consumers for cheaper and more readily available goods and bring in Innovations in transport, such as hyperloops, autonomous/robotic systems (e.g. “T-pods”) and new last-mile solutions as well as technological initiatives such as blockchain, increased digitalisation, single windows, EGNOS positional precision and the Copernicus Earth Observation Programme.
ePIcenter thus addresses MG-2-9-2019 of H2020 Mobility for Growth “InCo Flagship on Integrated multimodal, low-emission freight transport systems and logistics”, particularly in what refers to new logistics concepts, new disruptive technologies, new trade routes (including arctic routes and new Silk routes) and multimodal transfer zones. ePIcenter will speed up the path to a Physical Internet and will benefit peripheral regions and landlocked developing countries.
ePIcenter will reduce fuel usage (and corresponding emissions) by 10-25%, lead to greater utilisation of greener modes of transport reducing long distance movements by trucks by 20-25% and ensure a smoother profile of arrivals at ports which will reduce congestion and waiting/turnaround times.
Fields of science
- social sciencessocial geographytransportfreight transport
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robots
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
2030 Antwerpen
Belgium
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Participants (39)
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H3C 3R5 Montreal Quebec
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4052 Basel
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22525 Hamburg
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400 32 Goteborg
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405 19 Gothenburg
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11207 Algeciras
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11207 Algeciras
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28865 Lilienthal
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20355 Hamburg
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47119 Duisburg
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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00980 Helsinki
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RG45 6LS Crowthorne
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38440 Wolfsburg
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111 56 Stockholm
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1050-153 Lisbon
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28006 Madrid
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LT-10223 Vilnius
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LV-1019 RIGA
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81-225 Gdynia
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2000 Antwerpen
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37402 Chattanooga Tn
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EH14 4AS Edinburgh
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V8P 5C2 Victoria
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28203 Bremen
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28359 Bremen
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26723 Emden
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3008PB Rotterdam
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2600 Antwerpen
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89075 Ulm
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250001 Chia Cundinamarca
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02 305 Warszawa
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85000 Bar
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G1V 0A6 Quebec
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250000 JINAN SHANDONG
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100022 BEIJING
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501 15 Boras
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405 19 GOTEBORG
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2000 Antwerpen
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