The Italian Center of Excellence on Logistics, Transport and Infrastructure - CIELI at the University of Genoa has been successful in winning a funding within the SBEP - Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership program, which focuses on the development of collaborative activities between institutions from 30 partner countries to pool investments in research and innovation and align national programs at a pan-European scale. The funded initiative aims to create tools for planning and evaluating energy alternatives for logistics chains.

As part of the SBEP program, the University of Genoa, with Claudio Ferrari and Alessio Tei, UniGe lecturers in applied economics, is collaborating on the BluePortLab project, coordinated by Michele Acciaro of Copenhagen Business School.

The BluePortLab project, in which Danish, German and Swedish partners are also collaborating, aims to develop tools to encourage and speed up the energy transition of the seaport logistics supply chain. The Italian group is working to test policy and socioeconomic evaluation tools that can incentivize the creation of multi-carrier, multi-user energy infrastructure.

BluePortLab was presented by project coordinator Michele Acciaro at the annual meeting of the International Society of Maritime Economists (Bergen, Norway, June 24-27, 2025).

The project kick-off meeting is scheduled for September 2025, in Copenhagen. In Italy, the first activities are being developed in coordination with the Port System Authority of the North Central Adriatic Sea.

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