24th IFORS Triennial Conference
Vienna, Austria, 12–17 July 2026
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
You are invited to take part in the Maritime Logistics stream at the 24th IFORS Triennial Conference (Vienna, Austria). This stream welcomes presentations of operations research applications related to maritime and port logistics. Researchers, academics, and practitioners in any branch of operations research, e.g., mathematical modelling, heuristics, decision analysis, etc., are invited to submit abstracts to the following sessions.
SESSIONS AND ORGANIZER CONTACT
The following organized sessions are currently planned, but contributed abstracts are also welcome.
– AI in Maritime Optimization (code: 2828b5b5), Daniel Wetzel (daniel.wetzel@uni-bielefeld.de )
– Data-Driven Analytics for Sustainable Maritime and Port Logistics (code: 4d354c9a), Qinghe Sun (qinghe.sun@polyu.edu.hk), Shuai Jia (shuaijia@ust.hk)
– Data analytics for Green Shipping Management (code: dd4eb499), Ran Yan (ran.yan@ntu.edu.sg)
– Decarbonizing shipping networks (code: 50979ece), Frederik Schulte (f.schulte@tudelft.nl)
– Energy and resource efficient maritime operations (code: 6e98701c), Line Reinhardt (liner@ruc.dk)
– Green and Smart Maritime and Port Logistics (code: f3872680), Cagatay Iris (c.iris@liverpool.ac.uk), Yadong Wang (wang_yd@foxmail.com)
– Maritime logistics for offshore wind turbines (code: e2b5a35d), Vibeke Hvidegaard Petersen (vibeke.h.petersen@ntnu.no )
– Port-Hinterland Logistics Systems (code: 7e36b058), Zhaojie Xue (zjxue@szu.edu.cn), Jintao You (youjintao@gbu.edu.cn)
– Smart Operations in Inland Ports and Waterway Networks (code: bdd02021), Nadia Pourmohammad-Zia (n.pourmohammadzia@tudelft.nl), Mahnam Saeednia (m.saeednia@tudelft.nl)
– Smart tools for (just-in-time) port call optimization (code: 8d87cfde), Julia Pahl (julp@iti.sdu.dk)
– Seaside planning (code: 31514993), Rosa G. González-Ramírez (rgonzalez@uandes.cl), Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz (e.a.lalla@utwente.nl)
–TBA (code: dbf561db), Rommert Dekker (rdekker@ese.eur.nl)
– Vessel operations (code: 294fd558), Dario Pacino (darpa@dtu.dk)
– Yard management (code: f7dfcd46), Jana Ries (jana.ries@port.ac.uk)
For submitting to an organized session within this stream, you have to use the submission code accompanying the title. For additional information, you can contact the corresponding session organizer.
DATES AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION
15 March 2026
Deadline for abstract submissions
25 April 2026
Early bird registration deadline
1 May 2026
Final registration deadline for authors
Format: Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 600 characters (no formulas or mathematical notation are allowed).
Restrictions: Please note that the submission must be done by the person who will present the paper and will be shown as first author. No change to the first speaker will be allowed later.
Submission link: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2026/
STREAM CHAIR
Peter Schütz, Norwegian School of Economics and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (peter.schutz@nhh.no)
Looking forward to seeing you in Vienna in July 2026!