In a time when road transport is highly necessary, transport rates have gone down. Road carriers are trying to cover their costs by any means. This is not a sustainable reaction. An increase is only possible through a group reaction.
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Maritime transport is an extremely transport mode for international trade. It is crucial that the maritime chain is not unnecessary disrupted because of a crisis like the Corona pandemic.
PhD student Aman Srivastava gives 5 tips for a succesful PhD.
Amalie Bjornavold is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Antwerp. During the Doctoral Day, she received the Best Paper Award for her research in environmental economics.
Elspeth Hannaford has quite a story to tell. Not only is she in the US Navy Reserve, she is also a US GI Bill student, a graduate at the Centre for Maritime & Air Transport Management (C-MAT) and a PhD student at the University of Antwerp.
20 May 2019: D-day. Not only because the final episode of Game of Thrones was broadcasted in Belgium that day, but also – and for Leentje Moortgat, more important – the day of her public defence.
Last June, Wim Coreynen obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) at the Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE). It was the end of a journey that began ten years ago when he started as a master’s student at the Antwerp Management School (AMS).
Tim Huygh was a research associate at the Faculty of Business and Economics. He’s currently working as an assistant professor at the Open University Maastricht. Find out more about his journey.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed daily routines drastically. It is interesting to see that business practices and, even more specifically, marketing practices have changed and are changing. In this post we would like to give a helicopter view of how COVID-19 seems to change marketing across all of its levels.
In retrospect, Joris Beckers’ PhD was a mix of heights and lows, of opportunism and altruism, of freedom and pressure, and many more dualities. While these challenges are not necessarily different from other endeavours in life, he believes it is the extent of the contrasts that really sets this job apart. Coping with these extremes required some unique factors.
In the months before Christmas, advertisers try to seduce the children (and their parents and family) even more than usual with their campaigns on multiple platforms (both offline and online). This is exactly what the topic of Kristien Daems’ PhD was about, namely the effects of online advertisements on children and teenagers.
In October 2014 Alexander Paternoster started his PhD journey under the supervision of professor Johan Braet and professor Johan Springael. He investigated one of the most ‘appealing’ research topics of the University of Antwerp: the effect of the transport and storage conditions during the distribution of Belgian exported beer (and the economic consequences) on the beer flavour and aroma.
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