by Sophie Punte, Executive Director, Smart Freight Center. Presented at Transforming Transportation 2017.

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Innovation in Transport Logistics:
Drivers and Implications
Sophie Punte, Executive Director, Smart Freight Center
Presented at Transforming Transportation 2017

2. Innovation in Transport Logistics:
Drivers and Implications
Transforming Transportation
January 2017

3. Sophie Punte
Executive Director
Smart Freight Centre
 Founded Smart Freight Centre in 2013 as a mission driven organization to
catalyze more efficient and environmentally sustainable freight at a global
scale
 Clean Air Asia – Executive Director: green freight on the agenda of Asian
governments and establishing the China Green Freight Initiative and
Green Freight Asia
 Various posts at the United Nations, KPMG, New Zealand Ministry of
Environment, and an engineering firm on environmental management and
corporate sustainability
 Master of Science (Biology) and a Master of Environmental Management
from the Netherlands
 Works and lived in Europe, Asia and Pacific and Latin America

4. Areas for innovation in logistics
Vehicles, Vessels
& Fuels
Transport SystemFreight Movement
INNOVATION
PoliciesTechnologies Business models

5. Vehicles/Vessels and Fuels
Long trucks, platooning,
self driving trucks
Alternative fuels
Slow steaming, Low S
fuel, cold ironing
Truck technologies
Vehicle emissions

6. Freight movement
3D printing
Convertible trucks
Transport Management
Systems
Logistics platforms
Cross-docking
Rerouting

7. Transport system
New modes
Mode shift and electrification of urban freight
Modal shift and Synchromodality
Restructure logistics
supply chains
Freight corridors

8. Talking about drivers, disruption and
the need for innovation

9. Innovation in Logistics
 Drivers of innovation
 Implications for the sector and society at large
 Applications in developing countries
 Examples
Freight corridors
Urban ‘last mile’ freight delivery
Freight consolidation and multimodality
Vehicles, Vessels
& Fuels
Transport SystemFreight Movement

10. Barbara Mommen
CEO
Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative
 Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI) – Joined in 2006 as Chief of
Operations and was appointed CEO in 2011
Regional economic development issues and enabling the link between
strategy and policy with implementation
Facilitation, stakeholder engagement and trade and transport corridor
development
Passionate about seeing Africa's development benefit marginalized
communities.
 Lowveld Chamber of Business – Business Manager
 Recipient of British Council Fellowship
 Senior Management Certificate from the University of Manchester’s
Institute for Development and Policy Management

11. Evgenia Epaneshnikova
Transport Specialist
World Bank Group
 World Bank Group - Transport Specialist
Urban transport, asset management and trade and transport corridor
development issues across countries in South East European and
Central Asian countries.
 St Petersburg Research Institute of Urban Planning – Transport Planner
Developing mass transit systems and analyzing social and distributional
impacts of improved accessibility.
 Master degrees Urban Engineering from St Petersburg University of
Architecture and Civil Engineering; Development Studies from Oxford
University; Finance from George Washington University

12. Pablo Guerrera
Senior Transport Specialist
Inter-American Development Bank
 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) – Senior Transport Specialist
Coordinating the strategic area of freight logistics at the IDB
Investment portfolio and technical assistance operations in Latin American countries
at national, provincial and municipal level.
Projects on logistics and freight transport, transport infrastructure, rail infrastructure,
urban development and sustainable transport policies.
 Current freight and logistics projects:
Public policy and institutional strengthening for public sector agencies
Network of national and regional observatories for freight transport and logistics
Development of a methodology to estimate the impact of congestion on city logistics
 Previously with World Bank and private consulting firms in the field of transport
infrastructure

13. Bernard Aritua
Senior Infrastructure Specialist
World Bank Group
 World Bank Group - Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the Transport & ICT
Global practice
Infrastructure development
Strategic issues related to multimodal transport, freight and logistics
services
Led and provided technical input on large and complex projects in various
countries and regions including: UK, Germany, Eastern Europe, Africa,
Middle East, India and China
 Various positions in the private and public sector.
 Chartered Engineer with a PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
 Golf lover!

14. Jeroen Haver
General Secretary
Holland Logistics Network
 Senior Advisor & Sector Specialist Logistics with the
Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA)
Promotion of Dutch logistics sector abroad
Coordinates the execution of the international strategy of the Top team
Logistics
Focus: investments/acquisitions, gateway development and the export &
promotion of expertise, knowledge and solutions
 World Bank - seconded Transport & Logistics Specialist
 Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment – various positions on Mobility and
Urban Planning
 Various positions in private sector and not-for-profit-sector in the fields of
transport & logistics, pharmaceutics and knowledge development
 MSc, Transport Planning & Management, University of Westminster