Unique programme for future port executives

The transition from fossil to renewable fuels, process automation and creating employment, transforming old ports into attractive urban areas: these are the complex challenges not only facing Rotterdam but all port cities worldwide.

“To make ports and port authorities future proof, new port executives need new qualities. By offering a joint study programme, we can share our knowledge and skills with the port executives of the future and thus ensure that ports have maximum impact on society,” says Allard Castelein, CEO Port of Rotterdam Authority.

“Combining academic insights from Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus Centre for Urban Port and Transport Economics with the practical knowledge of the port generates special interaction. And we need that because the challenges we are facing in Rotterdam require special, integrated solutions for which we look beyond the borders of our own disciplines. Through regional co-creation, we ensure a Sustainable Rotterdam Delta,” says Rutger Engels, Rector Magnificus at Erasmus University Rotterdam.