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Alexandria, Egypt

Global supply chains are undergoing rapid transformation, driven by technological developments, sustainability requirements, and the growing demand for efficient, synchronized deliveries. This evolution has led to the emergence of integrated logistic corridors, designed to optimize the flow of goods while maintaining high operational standards. Smart Green Logistic Corridors represent a cornerstone approach to enhancing supply chain efficiency, sustainability, and digital transformation. By integrating advanced technologies such as IoT, AI, blockchain, and big data analytics, these corridors enable real-time monitoring, process automation, and data-driven decision-making.

Alexandria, Egypt

Showcased AI across the maritime chain: predictive operations, autonomous systems and decision intelligence.

Alexandria, Egypt

Welcome to MARLOG 13, the thirteenth annual conference on Sustainable Green Blue Infrastructure. This year's conference is focused on the theme of "Sustainable Resilient Infrastructure Perspective in Ports and Logistics." The conference will bring together a diverse group of experts from the fields of ports, logistics, sustainability, and technology to discuss the latest trends and innovations in sustainable infrastructure. We will explore a variety of topics.

Alexandria, Egypt

The world is facing continues and different types of challenges, either natural crises as climate change and other natural hazards that exacerbates with climate change, or manmade challenges as conflicts between nations and countries, conflicts in interests between stakeholders, and the raped changes in types and sizes of vessels and products and size of trading between countries. These challenges are growing and accelerating with time and driving the world to go through critical stages in the global economy in general and port and supply chains, which drives strongly to search for innovative and effective solutions to face the challenges and ensure the continuity of maritime transport and port productivity and competitiveness.

Alexandria, Egypt

Blue economy seeks to promote economic growth, while at the same time ensuring environmental sustainability of the oceans and coastal areas. Blue economy has diverse components, including established traditional ocean industries such as maritime transport, fisheries, and also new fields, such as offshore renewable energy, seabed extractive activities, aquaculture, and marine biotechnology. The blue economy contributes to climate change mitigation by developing offshore renewable energy, decarbonizing maritime transport and greening ports

Alexandria, Egypt (hybrid)

A hybrid milestone edition analysing pandemic shocks, supply-chain resilience and recovery scenarios.

Alexandria, Egypt

The world changes rapidly due to the technological revolution influencing every aspect of our life. The increasingly spreading impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) includes economic, social, and environmental interactions with digitization and (IoT), in the same time, arises the debate regarding the vagueness of the best tactics used to utilize the fast paced technological innovation. Owing to the 4IR, the seaports future is encountering rapid and bold changes, and it will provide distinctive options that will also revolutionize Port-City dialogue.

Alexandria, Egypt

The rapid changes in global economic activities force the main players to face some strategic changes in the global market, especially in shipping, ports and international trade. Seaport management has been suffering for decades to contain with the evolvement in shipping industry market power, towards fast, reliable, and secure transport. Integration as a business management strategy, would assist in facing the market rapid changes, while creating benefits of lowering the cost and increasing economies of scale as well as reducing the duplication of resources within the integrated ports.

Alexandria, Egypt

Due to the tremendous evolution in the industry of maritime transport and logistics, Innovation has become the most important driver of firm competitiveness in advanced economies, especially in ports and logistics community. In today's competitive environment, firms need to complement technological innovation with non-technological innovation concerning services, human resources and organization in order to survive and prosper.

Alexandria, Egypt

The rapid changes in global economic activities force the main players to face some strategic changes in the global market, especially in shipping, ports and international trade. Seaport management has been suffering for decades to contain with the evolvement in shipping industry market power, towards fast, reliable, and secure transport. Integration as a business management strategy, would assist in facing the market rapid changes, while creating benefits of lowering the cost and increasing economies of scale as well as reducing the duplication of resources within the integrated ports.

Alexandria, Egypt

The increasing volume of trade flows between ports combined with all kind of transportations activities, call for applying the smart-port concept especially on operational and energy efficiency, competitiveness and environmental impact aspects.

Alexandria, Egypt

Mega projects are wide scale investment projects that are of public interest due to their effect on a certain community or specific country in addition to their effect on economy, industry, environment or budget. A mega project is a high cost initiative that needs to be implemented with the highest due diligence to minimize negative effects on the project's course and budget. Mega projects are meant to fulfill targeted social benefits. Such projects are criticized for their action plans which go from top to bottom, in addition to their potential negative impacts.

Alexandria, Egypt

Logistics industry is one of the most important factors in economic development in the modern era. It is considered the strategic path for achieving comprehensive and continuous development. Logistics industry is also familiar with technological, organizational, human and financial facilities through which cargo handling will be achieved economically and as soon as possible. Moreover, cargo handling creates opportunities for value added industries by constructing logistic areas for storage, assembly and packaging. Also, some natural resources based industries could be established nearby.

Alexandria, Egypt

Explored the urban–port boundary: waterfront regeneration, traffic separation and shared governance of port cities.

Alexandria, Egypt

The founding edition examined how the Suez Canal region could anchor sustainable logistics growth for Egypt and the region.