sentences:  The institute organized and co-organized leading events and conferences such as the ITMMAPS conferences in 2002 and 2006, the ICLSP conferences in 2004 and 2008, the Ports in Proximity conference in 2007, the Asian Logistics Round Table conference in 2010 and the IAME Annual conference held in Santiago (Chile) in 2011.Dozens of academic papers were published by former ITMMA research team members such as Wout Dullaert (operations research), Wouter Jacobs (economic geography), Frank Witlox (transport geography), Theo Notteboom (maritime economics and geography) and dozens of researchers and PhD students.ITMMA authored five key reports for the European Seaports Organisation (ESPO) and many more reports for public and private entities.