Past Activities

  • Annual workshop for ATL members as well as several PhD students from members’ organizations (back-to-back to workshop in St. Petersburg in June 2020).
  • Mapping of ATL members’ capabilities and research priorities. Establishment of research teams to address suggested research topics; implementation plan and timeframes. Establishment the ATL’s steering committee.
  • CHNL at Nord University organizes annually a workshop on Arctic logistics. The workshop is attended by several businesses and governmental authorities. Next workshop will be in St. Petersburg, Russia in June 2020.
  • Participation at the annual Arctic Shipping Forum in Helsinki, Finland in April (approx. 200 attendees), and Arctic Shipping Forum North America in Montreal, Canada in October (approx. 150 attendees). Both conferences are attended by Arctic shipping companies, ship technology companies, logistics operators, classification societies, and governmental authorities from the Arctic states.
  • CHNL at Nord University is a project coordinator for a joint project on Eurasian Transportation and Logistics with project partners coming from South Korea, Japan and South Korea.
  • Participation at the International Arctic Shipping Seminar in Busan, South Korea, held every year in December (approx. 200 attendees). This seminar is attended by shipping companies, cargo owners and logistics operators from South-Korea.
  • Nord University is member of the China-Nordic Arctic Research Center (CNARC) which arranges conferences each year, alternating between China (Shanghai or Dalian) and one of the Nordic countries. The next conferences is in 2020 in Umeå, Sweden. These conferences are attended by both academic institutions and commercial shipping companies.