Prof. Francesco Longo took his degree in Mechanical Engineering, summa cum Laude, in October 2002 from the University of Calabria. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Calabria in January 2006. He is currently Associate Professor at the Mechanical Department of University of Calabria. He has served as Principal Investigator and Scientific Responsible for many research projects (many of them strongly related to the maritime sector and marine ports: HABITAT, SMARTRAIN, TESEDRAS, GREEVALUES, SIMON, to cite a few). As part of these research projects, he has actively cooperated with the port of Gioia Tauro and other national/international ports. He is co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal: Simulation, Transaction of the society for Modeling & Simulation International. During the last years, he has strongly supported the organization of International Conferences in the area of harbors and maritime (e.g. HMS, The International Conference on Harbor, Maritime and Multimodal Logistics Modeling & Simulation; Win-Log, The International Workshop on Innovation in Logistics). Starting from 2003 he worked on private research projects involving manufacturing and logistics systems operating in Italy. He has acquired experiences in consulting for Business Process Re-engineering and Logistics in different areas.