The project group meeting of the INFUTURE project was held in St.Petersburg, April 10-11th, 2019. The meeting was hosted by the Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping.
The agenda of the meeting consisted of project management issues and also an overview on all four work packages. The project is proceeding well and project partners both from Finland and Russia has worked well together and some summaries on inland waterways systems have already been conducted. INFUTURE first report have been published and can be found in KMRA webpages: https://www.merikotka.fi/projects/infuture/?lang=en
All project partners were present at the meeting:
Tarja Javanainen, Kotka Maritime Research Association - Project Manager
Toomas Lybeck, South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences
Heli Koukkula-Teixeira, Finnish Waterway Association
Pekka Koskinen Finnish, Waterway Association
Mikhail Pimonenko, North-West Russia Logistics and Information Development Centre
Kari Pohjola, SeaHow Ltd
Tatiana Pantina, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Anatoly Burkov, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Vladimir Karetnikov, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Marina Lebedeva, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Tamara Volkova, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Yury Yatsuk, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Elena Koroleva, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Nikolay Avtutov, Marine Engineering Bureau
Pentti Kujala, Aalto University
Fang Li, Aalto University
The project team was invited to Volgo-Balt Administration in St Petersburg. Volgo-Balt Administration presented their operations and main tasks. After the presentation and discussions the project group had an opportunity to visit the vessel traffic control department and mapping department.
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