Projects
AI innovation assessment for implementing in port logistics: cost-effectiveness supplemented by multi-criteria methods. University of Antwerp
(i-bollards) Intelligent early-warning system of interconnected bollards to monitor port infrastructure. University of Antwerp
Port capacity: pricing and investment under uncertainty. The development of a game-theoretical real options model in the maritime chain. University of Antwerp
Support probalistisch access policy for the Flemish ports: set to use the port of Zeebrugge Pro Perm program Ghent University
The contract is put into service for the Port of Zeebrugge ProToel program developed in a previous command "Research for the development of a probabilistic admittance policy to the Flemish ports" by the Department of Marine Technology at Ghent University. This program calculates the prediction of the risk of touching bottom by normative ships when sailing through the Scheurpas and Pass Sand, under different conditions of sea state, speed and ...
A mixed-methods perspective on blue collar workplaces: the multilingual and multi-varietal linguascape of the Port of Antwerp KU Leuven
Despite the boom in studies on communication in the workplace, blue-collar workplaces –particularly in non-transient multilingual settings– have received little attention. Hence, we aim to explore the language practices of a complex blue-collar community of practice situated in the multilingual as well as multi-varietal Flemish linguascape – i.e. the Port of Antwerp. Two linguistic groups can be identified among this community of port ...
Port capacity: pricing and investment under uncertainty. University of Antwerp
Ground-Rent, Financialization of Real-Estate and the Production of Space: The Choreography of Urban-Port Configurations around the Manchester Ship Canal and the Port of Antwerp KU Leuven
The mobilisation of land as a financial asset has become a defining feature of sociospatial restructuring in post-industrial European cities. Returning to the neglected literature on land rent, I argue that fundamental contradictions arise from treating land as capital which shape contemporary urban processes in important ways. I explore how these contradictions unfold by analysing the active political role of rentiers in urban restructuring ...