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Coaching workshop for the Belarusian
logistics sector
Amber Coast Logistics
(ACL) has made its first
appearance at
Belarusian Transport
Week, which was held
from 07-11th October in
Minsk. ACL had a stand
of its own and offered a
coaching workshop,
concentrating on
learning from Best Practice examples.
Around 70 logistics players from Belarus attended the
English-language coaching seminar, given under the title
‘Logistics companies: quality requirements for logistics
services and logistics service providers in Belarus’.
Speakers of the workshop were experts from established
logistics companies, institutions and ACL stakeholders.
One highlight of the international Transport and Logistics
trade fair was a visit to the ACL stand by the Belarusian
Minister of Transport. His visit emphasised the importance
of the EU project to the Belarusian logistics industry.
Read more about the successful visit of ACL in Belarus
German-Lithuanian Evening Forum:
‘You can’t get around Lithuania’
A German-Lithuania evening forum was held under
the auspices of ACL in Hamburg in September 2013.
The minister Counselor of the Republic of Lithuania, Mr.
Ernestas Mickus informed that Germany is one of
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Dear Readers,
how quickly time flies! Only six
months of the project lifetime
lie ahead of us but still many
interesting tasks and activities
need our involvement. We are
currently working on a guideline
for the better integration of
regional logistics solutions,
mainly those in Belarus, into
the EU logistics networks.
Moreover, the most important
topics, events and results of
our project need to be
summarized for the final
brochure. Another, but not less
important task is the
preparation of the final
conference that will take place
on February 27th, 2014. Next
to the ACL project partners
representatives of the Hamburg
Port community, important
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Lithuania’s most important
trading partners. Mr. Martynas
Armonaitis, Financial Director
of the Klaipeda State Seaport
Authority told the audience
about the port of Klaipeda.
Representing Lithuanian
railways, Mindaugas Butnorius
was also in the event to talk about his view on east-west
link on Transport Corridor VIII as one of the most important
corridors for his company.
The executive board member of Port of Hamburg
Marketing, Axel Mattern stressed the importance of
Lithuania for Amber Coast Logistics: ‘Lithuania is not only a
gateway to the CIS states – it is also the way to Asia. We
are delighted to have strong Lithuanian partners like the
Klaipeda State Seaport Authority and the Klaipeda Shipping
Research Centre NNPE working with us on this project’.
Read more about the speakers and speeches of the evening
forum
Accessibility in the Baltic Sea Region
Five transnational
research papers on
accessibility produced
by project partners of
Amber Coast Logistics
have been finalized.
The papers describe
physical, political,
commercial, technological and organizational dimensions,
and analyse how they each influence the seamless
transport of goods in the Baltic Sea region (BSR). All five
papers define accessibility as "the ability to reach desired
services, activities and destinations". The papers suggest
different possibilities and actions to support and increase
the accessibility in BSR.
Please find the research papers on our website
1st Forum and Conference on Eastern
Europe in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
‘Business without borders’ was the motto of the
conference held in June in Frankfurt (Oder),
Germany.
The East Brandenburg Investor Center, East Brandenburg
Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Amber Coast
Logistics welcomed 150 policy and business
representatives, coming from Germany, Poland and the
Eastern European countries of Russia, the Ukraine and
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delegates from the politics as
well as international guests
from the transport and logistics
sector will gather in Hamburg
to discuss the topics we have
dealt with since the start of
the project in October 2011.
Looking forward to this grand
final event, we are at the same
time proud of the past
activities: The summer months
were used to finish research
papers analyzing transport
corridors in the Baltic Sea
region and the most important
factors that have an impact on
the region’s accessibility.
Furthermore, the online
platform PORTlog which
provides customers from all
over the world quick access to
the logistics service suppliers in
the Port of Hamburg was
launched during the Transport
and Logistics exhibition in
Munich in June.
Many exciting events such as
the “Conference on Eastern
Europe – Business without
borders” in Frankfurt/Oder or
the German-Lithuanian
Economic Forum in Hamburg
are featured in this newsletter.
Two other highlights in the
past months: ACL has made its
first appearance at the
Transport and Logistics
Exhibition in Minsk with a stand
of its own and the organization
of a Coaching Workshop.
Enjoy reading this edition of
our ACL newsletter.
Marina Rimpo
ACL Project Leader
Save-the-date
Final Conference
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Belarus.
In a workshop on the
subject of ‘Cross-Border
Logistics and
Multimodality’ Gunnar
Platz, managing Director of
PLANCO Consulting in
Essen, gave an account of
the obstacles and
opportunities in
connection with intermodal networking with Eastern
Europe. The first thing, in his view, was to achieve a
critical – which is to say, sufficient – volume of freight.
Read more about the conference
PORTlog – connecting customers
providers of logistics services
and
In the framework of
work package 5 the lead
partner of Amber Coast
Logistics, Port of
Hamburg Marketing, has
launched the web
service PORTlog.
PORTlog is a new business
platform for logistics
companies, manufacturers and importers/exporters along
the transport chain, bringing together potential customers
and providers of these services. With PORTlog
international customers are able to locate the right
service provider in the warehousing, logistics or transport
fields for their imports and exports via Hamburg and the
metropolitan region. The platform currently runs in a
testing phase. At the moment it is being further
developed including the availability of the service in
different languages like English, Chinese, Russian,
Hungarian, Polish and Czech.
Amber Coast Logistics
Final conference on the
transport and logistics
sector in the Baltic Sea
region: Challenges,
concepts and
recommendations.
On 27 February 2014 the
project lead partner Port of
Hamburg Marketing will be
hosting the final conference of
ACL at the German UNILEVER
headquarters, beautifully
located in Hamburg`s new
HafenCity. The conference will
be divided into three sessions.
First of all, the focus is on the
status of the transport market
in the south-eastern Baltic
Sea region. Moreover, new
concepts to strengthen WestEast transport will be
discussed. And finally,
recommendations and
presentations from political
and practical perspectives will
be announced.
Find regular updates on the
conference on our website
Project Lead Partner
Learn more about PORTlog
Partnership of expertise and experience
The project’s partnership represents the concrete theme
of Amber Coast Logistics. 19 partners from Belarus,
Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland form the
project, amongst them transport and logistics players,
ports, port authorities as well as associations and research
institutes.
ACL is funded by the European
Union’s Baltic Sea Region
Programme 2007-2013 and the
European Neighbourhood and
Partnership Instrument (ENPI).
In every newsletter four partners of ACL are presented,
today:
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The Fraunhofer Center
for Maritime Logistics
and Services
The Fraunhofer C enter for
Maritime Logistics and
Services (C ML), located in
Hamburg, Germany,
conducts professional
contract research for private
and public sector clients in
the maritime industry,
including ports, terminal
operators, shipping
companies and logistics
service providers. C ML uses
innovative planning tools
and models to support its
customers in their complex
planning processes,
contributing new ideas and
boosting both the speed and
quality of planning.
Institute of Logistics
and Warehousing
The Institute of Logistics and
Warehousing is a state
owned R&D unit, and
Poland’s first centre of
competence in logistics, ebusiness and
standardization. The
institute that is situated in
Poznan develops, promotes
and implements innovative
solutions for logistics in key
business processes, thus
increasing the functional
effectiveness of companies
and complete delivery
chains.
Read more
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The School of
Business &
Management of
Technology
Freeport of Ventspils
Freeport of Ventspils is a
transit and industrial center,
located on the Eastern shore
of the Baltic Sea in Latvia.
Advantages of being ice-free
the whole year, the
possibility to accommodate
the largest vessels that can
enter the Baltic Sea together
with timely and precise
cargo handling operations at
its terminals make the port
an effective and lucrative
gateway for cargo deliveries
to and from Russia and
other neigbouring countries.
The School of Business and
Management of Technology
of Belarusian State
University (SBMT) was
established in 1996.
The mission of the school in
general is to train
competent managers with
adequate awareness of
economic and legal
environment, knowledge of
business functions and
appropriate strategies.
The school offers programs
in business studies,
information technology and
in recent times also in
logistics (incl. customs).
Read more
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