Walloon Transport & Logistics Cluster
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The Transport & Logistics Cluster (French: Cluster Transport & Logistique) is the official cluster of the transport
Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...

 and logistics
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...

 sector (conveyors, logisticians, managers of infrastructures and the training organizations) in Wallonia (south part of Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

). The goal of the cluster is to contribute to the development of the sector of transport and logistics in the Walloon Area.

See also

  • Agoria
    Agoria
    Agoria is Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association. The companies represented by Agoria are active in 13 branches of the technology industry: aerospace, automotive, construction products, contracting & maintenance, electrical engineering, industrial automation, ICT,...

  • Science Parks of Wallonia
    Science Parks of Wallonia
    Created in 2002, SPoW -Science Parks of Wallonia-, is an association of six Belgian science parks located in Wallonia:* Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park* Liège Science Park* Crealys Science Park* Aéropole Science Park* Initialis Science Park...

  • Flanders Institute for Logistics
    Flanders Institute for Logistics
    The Flanders Institute for Logistics is a Flemish non-profit organization, founded in 2003 by the Flemish government. The VIL supports and enhances the competitiveness of the logistics sector in Flanders.-See also:* Agoria...

     (VIL)
  • Brussels Airport
    Brussels Airport
    Brussels Airport is an international airport northeast of Brussels, Belgium. The airport is partially in Zaventem and partially in the Diegem area of Machelen, both located in the Flemish Region of Belgium.Brussels Airport currently consists of 54 contact gates, and a total of 109 gates...

  • Enterprise resource planning
    Enterprise resource planning
    Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

     (ERP)
  • Logistic engineering
    Logistic engineering
    Logistics engineering is a branch of systems engineering dedicated to the scientific organization of the purchase, transport, storage, distribution, and warehousing of materials and finished goods....

  • Supply chain management
    Supply chain management
    Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...

  • Transport in Belgium
    Transport in Belgium
    Transport in Belgium is facilitated with well-developed road, air, rail and water networks. The rail network has of electrified tracks. The road network has of roads among which of motorways, of main roads and of other paved roads. Urban rail network is also developed in Brussels, Antwerp and...


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