MEP Marianne Vind kindly invites you to a seminar presenting the world’s longest immersed tunnel and its impact on European mobility.

The 18 kilometre long Fehmarnbelt tunnel is now under construction between Denmark and Germany across the Fehmarnbelt.

When the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is completed, the journey through the tunnel will take 7 minutes by train or 10 minutes by car. Train passengers and freight trains passing through Denmark will save a 160km detour and thus reduce emissions from traffic.

The Fehmarnbelt tunnel will operate on a CO2-neutral basis, run on 100 percent green energy and use energy-efficient technology. 

The Fehmarnbelt tunnel and railway are an important part of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Core Network Corridor. The project receives co-financing from the EUunder the framework of its CEF Programme.

The Fehmarnbelt tunnel project is participating in “The Track to a successful TEN-T” exhibition in the European Parliament 11-14 October 2022.

Please join us for a presentation of this unique project and a discussion of its impact on European mobility and the green transition of freight transport. Drinks & snacks are served.

Sign up for the event before September 30 by contacting marianne.vind@ep.europa.eu. On registration, please inform us about your type of id and its identity number.

Tuesday October 11 at 17.00–18.15, Rue Wierts 60, Bruxelle. Meeting room: 5G305
Arrival latest at 16:30. Please have your ID/passport ready

17.00 Welcome by MEP Marianne Vind

17.15 Status on the construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel by Jens Ole Kaslund, Technical Director in Femern A/S

17.30 Impact on the green transition of the Scandinavian transport sector
by Furio Bombardi, Managing Director in Scandinavian Mediterranean Rail Freight Corridor

17.45 Discussions, drinks & snacks

18.15 End of seminar

Sign up for the event before September 30 by contacting marianne.vind@ep.europa.eu. On registration, please inform us about your type of id and its identity number.

For more information visit the official website www.femern.com

23 November 2022

Presentation of the ELA Award Project of the Year

Enjoy a day of best practice in Logistics and Supply Chain Management and an evening of true international networking with logistics and supply chain professionals.

Being the federation of national logistics associations in Europe the European Logistics Association has the ability to offer you across Europe a professional network of practitioners.

What makes this event unique?

The projects presented during this event are the finalists from the European competition. To be able to join this competition the projects have to be already champions in their own country. So this is the battle of the strongest.

Who can attend?

The event is ‘on invitation’ only. Are you a high level professional and a member of one of our National Logistics Associations please contact your association and maybe you are one of the lucky ones.

Where? 
The event will take place at the Residential Palace, Wetstraat 155,1040 Brussels

23 November 2022 live in Brussels
Residence Palace
1040 Brussels

CEL will be organizing EUROLOG, the annual Congress of the ELA (European Logistics Association), celebrating its 26th edition on June 6, 7 and 8 in Barcelona; on June 7 it will do so within the framework of SIL Barcelona; and on the 6th and 8th at the DFactory Barcelona facilities, promoted by the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, with visits to logistics facilities and ELA Talents Day, respectively. 

The first edition of EUROLOG in Barcelona was in 2002, also at SIL Barcelona, and now, more than 20 years later and having visited different European cities such as Athens, Bucharest, Milan, Lisbon or Berlin, among others, it returns to its first host, the Leading Trade Fair for Logistics, Transport, Intralogistics and Supply Chain in Southern Europe, the Mediterranean and Latin America, for its 25th anniversary, which gathers more than 650 participating companies and more than 15,000 attendees. Thanks to congresses such as EUROLOG, a meeting point is established where the main logistics issues and trends are discussed and analysed. 

Additionally, ELA will actively participate during the congress with content contribution.  

Further information about the EUROLOG 2023 at the SIL Barcelona Fair are attached and below.

If you, as an ELA-member/representative want to attend the EUROLOG 2023 please send your feedback to Gisèle Muñoz Alsina gmunoz@cel-logistica.org

For a stay within the City of Barcelona the recommendation is, using one of the Hotels that are close to the events:

• https://www.silbcn.com/en/visit/travel_accomodation.html
• https://www.silbcn.com/content/docs/2023/HOTELES_SIL2023.pdf

1st International Student Olympiad in Logistics The Olympiad will be held in 28 April of 2022 at 14:00 AM online

THE GOAL OF THE OLYMPIAD
Promote the professional development of students in the fields of freight transport, transport infrastructure and supply chain management and encourage creative and scientific activity of students.

THE ORDER OF THE OLYMPIAD 
The Olympiad is held online.
Languages of the event: Kazakh, Russian, and English.

Olympiad task includes tests, tasks, and essays. Teams of students participate. No more than 2 participants are allowed in one team.

Winners and prize-winners in individual and team competitions will be awarded with valuable prizes and certificates.

Tasks will be completed in the platform socrative.com. Link to the test performed in platform socrative.com, will sent a few minutes before the start date Olympics to the e-mail address specified in the application. The task completion time is 1 hour. After the time has elapsed, the link to the task will be closed. If the link is not received before 14:05, please send a request to the Olympiad coordinator’s e-mail address s.bolatkyzy@satbayev.university.

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE OLYMPIAD
Eligibility to participate in the 1st The International Logistics Olympiad is organized by university teams consisting of 2 students (full-time students studying undergraduate programs) and one supervisor. The number of teams from one university – not limited.

There is no registration fee for participation in the Olympiad.

To participate in the 1st International Logistics Olympiad, please send your application (appendix) to the Coordinator by April 26, 2022 Bolatkyzy Saltanat

e-mail: s.bolatkyzy@satbayev.university

Contacts

Kazakh National Research Technical University named after K. I. Satpayev Institute of Project Management after E.A. Turkebayev
Logistics Department

If you have any questions, please contact: s.bolatkyzy@satbayev.university
Almaty, 050013, 22a Satpayev Street,
The main academic building (GUK),
from the side Baitursynov street, room No401, 403, 410 Coordinator of the Olympiad: Bolatkyzy Saltanat, phone: 8-707-769-60-77, WhatsApp: 8-705-769-60-77

Organizing Committee:

Chairman and Organizing Committee:
Gulmira Mukhanova Samudinovna – head of the Logistics Department of the Kazakh National Research Technical University named after K.I.Satpayev, candidate of Technical Sciences, associate professor;
 

Alfonz Antoni – PhD, associate professor of Budapest Metropolitan University, vice-president of the European Logistics Association.

Members of the organizing committee:
 

Popov Pavel Vladimirovich – associate Professor of the Department of “Management and Marketing” of the Volgograd branch of Russian University of Economics named after G.V. Plekhanov, candidate of Technical Sciences, associate professor;
 

Lukinykh Valery Fedorovich – head of the Department “Marketing and Logistics in the Agro-industrial complex”, Professor, doctor of economics, President of the Siberian Branch of the International Logistics Center of the Russian Federation;
 

Tyshkanbayeva Mansiya Bukarina – associate Professor of the Logistics Department Kazakh National Research Technical University named after K. I. Satpayev, candidate of Technical Sciences, associate professor;

Lukinykh Valery Fedorovich – head of the Department “Marketing and Logistics in the Agro-industrial complex”, Professor, doctor of economics, President of the Siberian Branch of the International Logistics Center of the Russian Federation;
 

Tyshkanbayeva Mansiya Bukarina – associate Professor of the Logistics Department Kazakh National Research Technical University named after K. I. Satpayev, candidate of Technical Sciences, associate professor;
 

Zhazira Tymbayeva Muratbekovna –associate Professor of the Logistics Kazakh National Research Technical University named after K. I. Satpayev, Ph. D.in Economics

Supply Chains matter!

The International Supply Chain Congress has been the networking event for all top executives in logistics and supply chain management for decades. The international community meets annually in Berlin to exchange knowledge and experiences, to learn from the best and to define the logistics agenda for the coming years: More than 3,000 participants from over 40 nations come together in real and digital terms. The focus is on personal contact as well as the top-class specialist presentations, workshops and the presence of numerous companies in the accompanying exhibition. A highlight each year during the congress is also the presentation of the German Logistics Award, which honors innovations in the field of supply chain management and logistics.

At the congress, all important topics, trends and developments in the economic sector such as digitalization, new technologies, sustainability, artificial intelligence, intralogistics, circular economy, cyber security or even political framework conditions such as the Supply Chain Act will be addressed and discussed in plenary lectures and specialist sequences.

Registration for the congress is now open.

In 2022, the economic sector of logistics and thus also the International Supply Chain Congress are more relevant than ever. In two years of the pandemic, it has become clear to many people, even outside the logistics sector, what a significant contribution logistics makes to security of supply. Disruptions in supply chains have been prominently featured in the media. And even though there were massive delays and delivery problems for certain products, the dramatic scenarios of empty shelves and gas stations with no fuel did not materialize at all – impressive proof of the efficiency of logistics even and especially in times of crisis. Despite all adversity, logistics players have created solutions every day and demonstrated their systemic relevance. Logistics is modern, innovative and attractive – also as an employer. Logistics should also show this. BVL has therefore chosen “Supply Chains matter!” as its annual and congress motto in order to underline the relevance and solution competence of the economic sector with ‘healthy’ self-confidence. We look forward to sending this signal, especially from the International Supply Chain Congress in October, together with you from Berlin.

Forum Chemical Logistics 2022 

North Sea Port

TOP speakers from the chemical industry presented their projects in Ghent (Belgium) on 7th and 8th September 2022.The event will be rounded off by a boat trip through the North Sea Port, as well as a networking evening in the historic old town of Ghent on the first day of the event. The event will be held in English.

Registration will be activated shortly.

Your benefit:

– from the range of lectures and the transfer of know-how from practitioner to practitioner
– from transferable solutions and concepts from other sectors
– from the exchange of ideas and discussion among peers

You can find additional information here

ELA Leadership Workshop 2022 25th May

Gigafactory Europe – European Supply Chain Managers team up to design new solutions to the pandemic and political crisis

The shock brought by the COVID 19 pandemics on global supply chains was evident : longer transit time from the Far East, unbalanced distribution of containers on the globe, unprecedented rise in ocean freight costs as well as the risk of single and concentrated sourcing have been affecting the operations of  businesses in Europe.

The Russian-Ukrainian crisis is bringing further uncertainty and takes some options off the table.

ELA would like to pick up the challenge and contribute to supporting the European businesses by pooling ideas and practices of the Supply Chain Community to lay the framework and identify options to make European and global supply chains more robust, flexible and resilient.

You are invited to join the ELA leadership workshop where managers form all the ELA member countries will meet to design together the Gigafactory Europe of tomorrow.

Follow our workshop here

When: 25th MAY 2022

The twenty-sixth ELA Doctorate Workshop will take place in Copenhagen (Denmark) from June 29th until July 02 nd2022 at Copenhagen Business School – CBS.

I would like to invite you to propose one doctoral student from your university, who could contribute to this workshop with an interesting doctoral research project within logistics. All fields of logistics in the broadest sense are of interest.

The nominated student is requested to prepare a three-page proposal indicating: the title of the research project, name, affiliation, contact details and email address, the stage of the research project (beginning, middle, end) and a brief description of the project (research objectives, methodology, expected results, list of references, etc.) and submit it before March 18th, 2022.

The application should also include a short letter of recommendation from the main PhD supervisor or Head of the Department (this letter can follow after the proposal, if necessary). More information about ELA and the previous doctorate workshops can be found at the homepage of TU Darmstadt (Supply Chain and Network Management http://www.scnm.tu-darmstadt.de – on the right side click on ELA Logistics Association). It is also possible to follows us on Facebook

The ELA Research Committee will evaluate the submitted proposal and invite about 20 doctoral students to participate in the workshop. All the students have to prepare a formal presentation of their project. The chairman and 3 other experienced logistics professors from Europe will participate as advisors and moderators during the workshop. The Kuehne Foundation is the sponsor of the workshop and it will cover accommodation and meals expenses for all the invited doctoral students. Travel costs have to be paid by the participants themselves. The ELA doctorate workshop is highly recommended. It is an excellent opportunity for doctoral students from all over Europe to meet and establish a valuable network. Students can get 3 ECTS.

Please send the proposal as an attached document in Word to the chairman of the workshop:

Dr Pietro EVANGELISTA

Research Institute on Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS) National Research Council (CNR)

Via G. Sanfelice, 8 – 80134 Naples (Italy)

E-mail: p.evangelista@iriss.cnr.it

We like to thank the large number of participants for their presence at our online ELA Award event and we are proud to announce following winners:

ELA Award 2021 for Project of the Year goes to : dm drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG, Germany

for the project”Innovative retail logistics at dm | Integrative. Intelligent. Automated”. dm drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG received already from BVL, Germany the Logistics Award in 2020. Now they are the winner of the Award 2021, handed over by the European Logistics Association.

The project deals with reduction in overall logistics expenditure of over 7 million euros p.a., lighter workload for store employees of more than 50,000 hours p.a.,  reduction in the weight lifted in manual picking of more than 50,000 tons p.a., decrease in transport volume of roughly 1.8 million truck kilometres p.a., increasing capacity by implementing new  technology in the DC world. See also following video.

Press release can be found here.

ELA Award 2021 from the audience for Best Presentation of the Year goes to O’Logistique-Groupe Casino-Monoprix, France

for the project “Changing the face of e-commerce logistics, when a leading French food retailer meets the top British online grocery player”. It is a collaborative project dealing with disrupting the French grocery e-commerce market by developing the fastest growing logistic company, based on the state-of-the-art technology developed by Groupe Casino’s partner, Ocado. See also following video.

Herewith you will also find the link to the interesting presentations of the keynote speakers:

– Dr. Paolo Bisogni

– Dr. Katarzyna Lobacz

Paolo Bisogni was confirmed at the top of ELA, European Logistics Association. He was re-elected on Thursday 24 June by the General Assembly of the Association, gathered by videoconference to elect its governing bodies for the two-year period 2021-2023, to approve the financial statements and to analyze the results achieved and future objectives.

Also the hithertomembers of the executive committee were confirmed for the positive results achieved: the two Vice Presidents, Alfonz Antoni, Hungarian and Roman Stiftner, Austrian; Péter Kiss (Hungary, Treasurer) and Adriana Palasan (Romania, Secretary General). As third Vice President Kevin Richardson, Managing Director of CILT UK, the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport, strengthen the executive committee.

With the elections on Thursday, the entire ELA board has been renewed: in addition to the six members of the Executive Committee, the people who will lead the Association over the next two years are:

José Estrada (Spain), Katarina Giertz (Sweden), Didier Granger (France), Konstantinos Haniotis (Greece), Danuta Kisperska-Moroń (Poland), Markus Mau (Germany), Xavier Rius (Spain), Mirek Rumler (Czech Republic).

During the assembly, the pillars of the association’s strategy were emphasized: to increasingly develop the role of a “think-tank” and advisor to the European institutions; foster networking among supply chain professionals; promote coordination and synergy between businesses and research; promote the professional development of the female component of supply chain management.

ELA (www.elalog.eu) is the European federation of logistics management associations. It represents a network of over 50,000 professionals in Europe and neighbouring countries. Currently its direct members are:

AILOG, Italy; AMDL, Morocco; APLOG, Portugal; ARILOG, Romania; BVL, Austria; BVL, Germany; CILT – Ireland; CILT – UK; CEL and ICIL (Spain); CLA, Czech Republic; C4L, Luxembourg; France Supply Chain by ASLOG, France; GS1, Switzerland; HALPIM, Hungary; HILME, Greece; LOGY, Finland; NLA, Russian Federation; PTL, Poland; KLC, Kazakhstan; SILF, Sweden; SLA, Slovenia; ULC, Ukraine