Robin Audenaerdt
Robin started as a project engineer at Europe Combined Terminals, Europe’s largest container port, in Rotterdam back in 1995. Robin holds University degrees in Logistics, Business Administration and Supply Chain Optimization from Insead. With first-hand experience from the first fully automated container terminal in the world with Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and Stacking Cranes (ARMG), […]
Robert Hambleton
Combining over thirty years of Container Terminal experience and five years serving as a Captain within the UK Armed Forces, Robert has worked across six different countries (UK, Malta, Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey and Saudi Arabia) for six different Terminal Operators (APM Terminals, Hutchison, ABP, Gulftainer, Port of Marsaxlokk, Port of Tilbury), and he is currently […]
Oscar Pernia
‘As Founder & Technical Lead of Next Port Dr. Oscar Pernia participates as advisor and thought leader in several innovation and R&D activities, with core focus on enabling the introduction of Artificial Intelligence in the Port Industry: his education was on Telecommunications Engineering, and he holds an Industrial Engineering PhD, where he focused on Algorithms […]
Gerhard Fischer
Gerhard L. Fischer graduated in 1987 with a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Science, Munich, Germany and visited Arizona state University, USA on a Fulbright exchange. Since 2008 Gerhard is with Siemens AG in the Cranes business segment in Erlangen, Germany as head of sales for harbour cranes. He […]
Francisco Blanquer
Mr. Francisco Blanquer (Innovation and Development Senior Manager) [M] is a Spanish civil engineer but with an industrial professional career resulting in extensive experience in the industry sector that has given him the ability to perform complex multidisciplinary projects. During the last thirteen years, he has developed functions of innovation and development engineer in the […]
