The FOR-FREIGHT project consortium successfully completed their Project Management Board Meetings that took place virtually on the 24th of August 2022, and physically on the 14th of September 2022. The project partners met to discuss their roles and responsibilities and to agree on a common ground for the kick-off meeting requirements.

The project’s Kick-Off Meeting took place physically on the 15th of September 2022 in Thessaloniki, Greece, at The Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas (CERTH). This 40-month Innovation Action project is funded under Horizon Europe and officially started on the 1st of September 2022.

FOR-FREIGHT aims to maximise the utilisation of multimodal freight transport capacity, achieve competitive sustainability with higher levels of efficiency, and reduce the average cost of freight transport through the development of novel solutions and their integration with legacy logistics systems. This will enable more effective and sustainable management of goods and freight flows in airports, ports, inland terminals and various logistics nodes, taking into account the requirements of all involved stakeholders, and accounting for economic, environmental and social aspects. The FOR-FREIGHT solutions will target the end-to-end optimization of multimodal/multi-stakeholder logistics processes and improved access to transhipment services.

Within the scope of the project, the FOR-FREIGHT platform will be designed and implemented, which will support advanced, targeted functionalities that will be enabled through the combination of existing and newly developed hardware and software components in order to serve the demanding requirements of the three Use Cases (UCs) that will be demonstrated in each trial site facility, namely:

1. UC1 (Spain) – Blockchain & Digital Twins to support Decision Making Process in multimodal transport combined with a Subway-Based Network for sustainable last mile distribution.
2. UC2 (Greece) – Port-to-Airport multimodal freight transport: End-to-end optimization with Decision Support Systems and real-time monitoring & control capabilities.
3. UC3 (Romania) – Riverport to warehouse hub via railway network – Galati Port.

The FOR-FREIGHT project has received funding from Horizon Europe, under Grant Agreement No. 101069731.