Chair Circular Port Monitoring in Flanders

About the chair

Port clusters are playing an increasingly important role in the transition to a circular and low-carbon economy, both at the level of facilitating regional and global transport within circular production and product chains, and hosting circular activities in port areas. In this regard, performance measurement is becoming an increasingly important issue for ports. Due to the complexity of the modern “port product,” each player (port authority, operator and stakeholder) is involved in a multitude of different performance measurements.

Ports, and more specifically Port Authorities (PAs), are expected to share responsibility for making the circular economy work. Monitoring serves both to systematically increase transparency and ambition, and for accountability of performance.

De chair is a collaboration between Vlaanderen Circulair and the Flemish ports Port of Antwerp-Bruges, North Sea Port Flanders en Haven Oostende. 

Goals

For two years, the chair will coordinate research on circular economy in Flemish Seaports and work to further develop a monitoring system that allows them to measure and improve efforts in the field of circular economy. This should make Flemish seaports future-proof and at the same time ambitious.