Flows Logistics Thesis of the Year: Miguel Timmermans on port mergers

For his thesis, Miguel Timmermans investigated whether the success factors of the North Sea Port cross-border merger could also be applied to Flemish seaports. “The North Sea Port merger was a year old at the beginning of my research,” says Miguel Timmermans. “At that time, Zeebrugge and Antwerp were also holding talks to cooperate or even merge. The topic seemed topical and interesting to me. What if we applied North Sea Port’s methodology exactly to Zeebrugge and Antwerp, and by extension to all seaports?”