Open Access Conference Proceedings

The 10^th Carpathian Logistics Congress CLC 2022 took place in Bojnice on June 15 - 17, 2022. Almost 70 participants from 7 countries listened to 22 lectures and viewed 31 posters. After a two-year break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the congress could take place this year in the traditional format again.

The congress was organized under the patronage of the General Director of the Water Transport Section of the MDV SR Ing. Tomas Kalina, PhD.

The conference was opened by Assoc. Professor Sheng Teng Huang from the College of Maritime Science and Management, National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU). He dedicated his lecture to exploring resilient solutions through facilitating intelligent port digital transformation in post pandemic world. The second plenary lecture was given online by Dr. Diana Sánchez-Partida from Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) in Mexico. The lecture dealt with the disaster risk reduction in Mexico: the most frequent natural disasters and their tendency in mexico from a perspective based on humanitarian logistics. The last plenary lecture of the CLC 2022 congress was given by Ing. Peter Mesarč, country manager at Bolt Market Slovakia. Ing. Mesarč introduced speed as a key element of competitive advantage in logistic flows.

However, the thematic scope of the lectures at the conference was traditionally much broader. Researchers presented innovations not only in strategic, production and business logistics, supply chains and networks, distribution and transport, but also in quality management and risk management.

The prize for the best poster has been awarded to HRUDKAY Karol, MADLEŇÁKOVÁ Lucia, ČULÍK Kristián, MORGOŠ Ján from University of Žilina, Slovakia. In their work, they showed the City Logistics in the Centre of a Slovak County Town.

The next 11th CLC congress will take place on September 20 - 22, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic. The congress will be under patronage of the ŠKODA logistika.