ECTA Annual Meeting 2026

Get ready for the ECTA Annual Meeting 2026 and our great speakers!
This year, we are hosting an ECTA Annual Meeting classic “Outlook for the chemical industry” in the morning, next to the afternoon focus on “sustainable transport solutions”. In 2025, our audience appreciated the content around Artificial Intelligence in Logistics – this is why we added it to the agenda again with our dinner speaker.

Our agenda

Our morning session will be opened by Moncef Hadhri of Cefic, chief economist. He will talk about the EU27 Chemical Industry and its latest developments. His presentation will be followed by the topic: “Impact of fuel price fluctuations, geopolitics, road taxes, delayed regulations on European Transport and logistics Procurement”, presented by Marnix Mondria, Director, Supply Chain Operations EMEA & Asia at LyondellBasell. The morning session furthermore will include the Port of Tarragona´s expertise on “Europe’s Chemical Industry in Transition: The View from a Southern European Petrochemical Cluster”, presented by Genoveva Climent, Head of the Business Development Area.
To close the morning topic, we will host a panel with the above speakers, Jordi Angles Jove of the Port of Tarragona, Commercial Coordinator, and Bram Plessers, Segment Manager Chemistry at the Post of Antwerp-Bruges, to get answers to your questions.

The afternoon session of the ECTA Annual Meeting will focus on Sustainable Transport Solutions. At first, Marcus Lomax, Senior Technical Manager at Smart Freight Centre, will inform you about the Future of the GLEC framework. His presentation will be followed by Cefic´s insights on “Acceptance of low emission vehicles on chemical plants”, presented by Joost Naessens, Director Transport & Logistics.
Before the afternoon session heads to its Panel discussion, Thorsten Fögeling, Manager for HV Battery Performance & Regulations at Daimer Trucks, will talk about Electric trucks in ADR transport with focus on the HV battery.
This segment will be rounded off with a Panel consisting of the above mentioned speakers, as well as a representative of Renault Trucks.

To close the afternoon session, the ECTA team will give an update on the ongoing ECTA topics like Responsible Care, Digitalization and Regulatory Updates.

To close the ECTA Annual Meeting, we invited again the dinner speaker Wouter Van Haaften, leader of a strategy consultancy focused 100% on Generative AI of WAIMAKERS, who will talk about The Impact of Generative AI in Chemical Logistics, as an update of his presentation of last year.