The future belongs to the youth! To better engage youths and develop potential ambassadors for the organisation, PSA Belgium has been continuously working with local education institutes, colleges and universities to share industry expertise and offer a taste of real-world work opportunities to these students.

On 23 June, PSA Belgium organised the 50th edition of the “PSA Awards” celebrating young talents from the Karel De Grote University of Applied Sciences and Arts (KdG). As part of the annual awards, a group of five supply chain management graduates presented their thesis topics to a panel of judges and this year’s winning thesis touched on digitalisation at breakbulk terminals.

As this was a special jubilee edition of the “PSA Awards”, the students were also invited on board the “Festina Lente” ship for their presentations and enjoyed a tour of the terminals in the Port of Antwerp.

On 1 July, PSA Belgium, together with colleagues from the Antwerp Terminal Services (ATS), also held the “ATS awards” to recognise the best thesis submissions from students who were studying vessel and port techniques or electromechanics at a college near the Port of Antwerp.

“We would like to congratulate the winners of both the PSA and ATS Awards for their great theses. From the past, we know that the recipients have a great future ahead of them in logistics. With these awards, we not only want to encourage and reward high-level work in fields that are relevant to our sector, we also see this as a tremendous opportunity to present the company to these upcoming talents as a potential future employer,” says Ivan De Maere, Head of HR and Communications, PSA Belgium.