Ports, Maritime & Waterways Events

When: 05 February 2025, 19:00 - 20:30
Where: University of Kent Business School, Sibson building, Parkwood Road, Canterbury and on Zoom
Speaker: Doug Bannister , Chief Executive, Port of Dover

Ports are capital intense infrastructure businesses, where decisions made today will have consequences for decades. Each year billions are invested into ports around the world, and ports must evaluate a vast array  of considerations when determining their current and future investments. This talk will explore the process, results and considerations that the Port of Dover recently undertook in developing their Port 2050 master plan.

NB Joint Meeting with the University of Kent, Kent Business School Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation


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Competencies:

• SC1.1 Supply Chain Networks, Design and Optimisation
• FM1.1 Freight Transport Operations and Services
• FM2.3 Local, National and International Distribution Networks

When: 20 February 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University, Boundary Road North, Third Gait, Edinburgh  EH14 4AS
Speaker: Lisa Farrell, Heriot-Watt University

The UK’s centre for artificial intelligence, located on Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh campus, creates innovative solutions to global challenges, working directly with industry to test and develop robotic, AI and automated technologies and rapidly move pioneering research from lab to market. The centre fosters the teaching and development of the next generation of roboticists, producing highly-skilled graduates who are trained to conduct world-leading research with a market focus, and developing programmes to equip the current and future workforce with robotics, data and programming skills. It also delivers incubation and business acceleration support for start-up technology companies, providing them with access to labs, office space, equipment, and engineering expertise to develop their ideas, attract inward investment, and shape the future of robotics.
 
The National Robotarium is a Data-Driven Innovation hub, funded in partnership with The University of Edinburgh as part of the £1.5bn Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal, which is supported with £300m funding from the UK Government and £300m funding from the Scottish Government.


Lisa Farrell and colleagues will explain how robotic, AI and automated technologies can be applied to sectors including not only logistics but also agriculture and social care where they can address labour shortages. 

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Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk

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Communities Team

When: 27 March 2025, 09:00 - 13:00
Where: Reading College, Kings Road, Reading, RG1 4HJ
Speaker: Various Speakers

Logistics and transport businesses have long bemoaned the lack of basic skills relevant to their sectors among school leavers. School leavers in turn appear to have little appreciation of the varied and exciting roles that are available to them in the wonderful world of logistics. Their views (and those of their training providers and gatekeepers such as parents and career advisers!) are often limited to Hi-Viz jackets, sheds and trucks.  This is YOUR opportunity to shape the training given to potential employees to meet the needs of YOUR business and industry.

The Thames Valley Group are calling for delegates to join the joint Workforce Development Partnership (WDP) workshop with Thames Valley Chambers of Commerce, colleges, training providers, career advisers, the Berkshire Careers Hub and fellow professional logistics and transport leaders in Reading College – free parking is available to those who register to attend.

After the last WDP in November 2024, Banbury and Bicester College is already looking to provide a new Haulage and Logistics pathway incorporating exciting curriculums including logistics, warehousing, supply chain and transport management encompassing road, rail, sea, and air with a cross-cutting theme of digital literacy and skills, so your voice really does matter.

We recognise that you need to be the employer of choice, not last resort if we are to attract the talent you need.  We must ‘sell’ our profession to young potential employees, dispel the Hi-Viz and Yorkie Bar myth and excite them about our wonderful sector, and the progress they can make in it (it should be noted that 2 in 3 logistics managers do not have a degree).  Following the WDP we are therefore running a walk-around showcase event for college students, their lecturers and career advisors supported by the Berkshire Careers Hub. We need you to join us and engage with this young talent for a couple of hours after the WDP.  We would love you to come and briefly explain to students how much more than sheds and trucks there is to logistics in a format that is easy and ‘least effort’ to you – a two or three slide rolling presentation, a piece of interesting kit or just one of your own young employees who can inspire students to look at our profession – and raise your profile amongst a talented and potential future workforce.

Experts from sustainable supply chains, telemetrics. transport planning and Defence logistics are already signed up to the Showcase – come and ‘sell’ your specialisation to our future talent, their educators, training providers and careers advisers and prove there is more to life than Hi-Viz!

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Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk

When: 27 March 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: Panmure House, 4 Lochend Close, Edinburgh EH8 8BL 
Speakers: Ed Sweeney, Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
Adam Dixon, Adam Smith Professor of Sustainable Capitalism at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University 

Home of Adam Smith, the ‘Father of Economics’’ between 1778 and 1790, seventeenth-century townhouse Panmure House 
off Edinburgh’s Canongate was rescued from dereliction by Heriot-Watt University in 2007, and now houses the University’s centre for social and economic debate and research. Professors Ed Sweeney and Adam Dixon will tell us how their stewardship of Smith’s home keeps them true to the spirit that the great man was also the Father of Logistics. The event will comprise a lecture, followed by a Q&A session, and a tour of the house. There will also be networking opportunities before and after the formal proceedings. 

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Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk


Competencies:
SC1.1 Supply Chain Networks, Design and Optimisation.

When: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Chris Tomlinson, Development & Stakeholder Manager, Rampion2

With Newhaven Port as operations and maintenance base and with the successful construction of the first 116 turbines in Rampion completed in 2018, Chris will give us an update on Rampion 2 - the project to build more turbines to provide power to over 1 million more homes - the offshore wind farm design, which is the subject of ongoing refinement, and the onshore electricity cable route required to bring the power from the proposed wind farm to the new Oakendene substation.

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Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk


Competencies:

• SC1.1 Supply Chain Networks, Design and Optimisation
• SUS1.1 Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience  of the Supply Chain