STICHTING TKI LOGISTIEK

Their core work

TKI Dinalog (Stichting TKI Logistiek) is the Dutch national top consortium for logistics knowledge and innovation — a public-private intermediary that connects industry, academia, and government to accelerate logistics R&D across the Netherlands. In EU projects, they participate as a sector representative and dissemination partner rather than a primary research institution, bringing access to the Dutch logistics industry cluster and its dense network of carriers, ports, and freight operators. Their substantive contribution centers on the Physical Internet concept — the vision of making physical freight networks as open, shared, and efficient as digital data networks — and, more recently, on zero-emission and urban freight solutions. They do not produce primary research themselves; their value lies in translating R&I outcomes into industry uptake and ensuring European findings reach Dutch logistics actors.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first EU project (SENSE, 2017–2020), TKI Dinalog focused on the theoretical and systemic framing of the Physical Internet — accelerating its adoption as a conceptual model for open logistics networks. By BOOSTLOG (2021–2023), the agenda had broadened into concrete application domains: zero-emission freight, urban logistics, and physical corridor-and-hub architectures, which are the implementation layer of Physical Internet principles. The trajectory is clear: from concept advocacy toward applied, policy-relevant decarbonisation and city-logistics themes that reflect both EU Green Deal pressure and growing urban freight regulation.

They are moving from broad Physical Internet evangelism toward specific decarbonisation and urban logistics applications, tracking closely with EU policy priorities — making them a useful dissemination partner for any freight sustainability project targeting the Dutch or wider European industry.

How they like to work

TKI Dinalog has never led an EU project — both participations are as a non-coordinating partner, consistent with their identity as an industry intermediary rather than a research performer. Despite only two projects, they have engaged 24 distinct partners across 10 countries, which means they join large, multi-actor consortia where their contribution is network reach and sector dissemination rather than technical work packages. Working with them means gaining a bridge into the Dutch logistics industry cluster and its policy ecosystem, not a research deliverable.

24 consortium partners across 10 countries from just 2 projects indicates they consistently join large European logistics consortia. Their Breda base places them at the heart of the Dutch logistics corridor linking Rotterdam port to European hinterland routes, likely anchoring their network in NL, BE, DE, and FR logistics actors.

What sets them apart

As the official Dutch TKI for logistics, TKI Dinalog holds a nationally recognised mandate to connect industry and research — a status no ordinary NGO or association can replicate. This means they offer direct reach into Dutch logistics companies (from SMEs to port operators) and a credible voice in national and European freight policy debates. For consortium builders seeking a Netherlands-based industry liaison or dissemination partner with logistics-specific authority, they are one of the few organisations that can genuinely claim that role.

Highlights from their portfolio

• BOOSTLOG
  The more substantive of their two projects, explicitly tasked with turning logistics R&I into industry impact — a mandate that mirrors TKI Dinalog's own institutional purpose — and covering the broadest thematic scope: Physical Internet, zero emissions, urban freight, corridors, and hubs in a single CSA.
• SENSE
  One of the early EU-level projects dedicated to advancing the Physical Internet concept as a systemic logistics framework, placing TKI Dinalog among the first-wave advocates of this paradigm in European research.