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In issue #96 of Maritiem Courant, I am introduced in an interview by Matthijs Daniels as the new columnist for the Maritiem Courant. You can read the article on Maritiem Courant or as a blog post below. Poul van den Elshout is 51 years old and lives with his partner in Breda. He graduated summa cum laude from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 1997 with a new concept for a container terminal on the Maasvlakte. He immediately started as an independent entrepreneur, sold his co

In issue #96 of Maritiem Courant, I wrote a column about how we can gain more control over our waterways and everything happening on and around them with the help of corridor managers. Colomn by Poul van den Elshout in the Maritiem Courant of may 2026 You can read the article in the Maritiem Courant as well as blog posts. In the interior of the house, there are lots of ships, motors, tools, books and regulations. That is understandable, here lies a large part of the tagline c

Inland shipping does not have a single problem. It has a recurring pattern: we keep optimizing what already performs well on the main corridors, while structurally leaving potential untapped on the capillaries—smaller canals, side branches, and urban connections. If you had to pick one topic from the Vision Document that returns in almost every chapter, it is fleet differentiation: a fleet architecture that does not treat “bigger and more efficient” as the default, but takes