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CBS welcomes leading port management researcher

9 years ago

Port consultancy specialist and Port Strategy columnist Peter de Langen has joined Copenhagen Business School (CBS) as a visiting professor.

Mr de Langen has been involved in academia for over 20 years, first at Erasmus University Rotterdam and then as professor of Cargo Transport & Logistics at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Mr de Langen said: “I am happy to work with CBS. Copenhagen is a true maritime capital and CBS an established leader in maritime research. I look forward to assist in extending CBS’s research in the field of port management’.”

CBS Maritime director Henrik Sornn-Friese added: “With the affiliation of Peter de Langen to CBS Maritime we are indeed bringing in one of the most well-known and quoted port management researchers to CBS.

“Peter also is a founding member of PortEconomics.eu and thus brings with him an extensive network of port analysts, port executives and policy makers. This will be an important lever for our growing academic initiatives on ports and global maritime supply chains”.

Mr de Langen is owner and principal consultant of Ports & Logistics Advisory.