Transport and logistics are essential elements of island development. In fact accessibility is a relative concept whose centrality can be modified by transport and logistics. The Azores are peripheral compared to Europe, North America, South America and Africa but can be, as it were central in relation to all of them depending on the routes that globalization is revealing and daring place.

It is also why the Azores attract scientists from around the world to speak of various sciences and also to talk and discuss issues related to transport and logistics.

The challenge is to come and talk to the best national and foreign experts on the subject, to exchange ideas and learn seeds of innovation.