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How will the enlargement of the Panama Canal affect the future development of container fleets?
Which size classes of container ships are still fit for the future and which are not?
To what extent will trade lanes be influenced by this? - These and other questions are addressed by the ISL in the new position paper entitled "Impact of the Panama Canal, development of the fully cellular container ship fleet and cascade effect".

For the next five years the ISL will be a member of the Digital Transport and Logistics Forum (DTLF) of the EU.

It's no secret: hackers are taking a strategic approach and are attacking companies more and more skillfully and across industries - including port operations. All players involved in port logistics are connected in a complex communication network and exchange information with each other. Data interfaces are the target for hacker attacks here, because even if the individual systems of the port actors are secured using state-of-the-art technology, this standard does not automatically apply to the entire port communications network.

C-BORD boosts Container Inspection – successful completion of the H2020 project in November

On October 25, 2018, a 20-member delegation from Shanghai in China traveled to the ISL in Bremen to learn more about the topics "Port facilities and security concepts" and "Maritime logistics, container traffic and the role of the Northrange ports" and "Container terminal operation today and tomorrow".

Wtih October, activity on the "Binntelligent" project began under the auspices of ISL. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) as part of the "IHATEC - Innovative Port Technologies" programme. During the three-year project period, the aim is to lay the foundation for communication in and around the inland port of the future through the use of intelligent information technologies.

The Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL), one of Europe's leading institutes for research, consulting and know-how transfer in maritime logistics and located in Bremen and Bremerhaven, Germany, will present its current projects at SMM, the world's leading trade fair for the maritime industry, taking place on 4th - 7th September 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.

After the success of the 1ˢᵗ workshop, the MARSAT project partners cordially invite you to the 2ᶮᵈ MARSAT Workshop on Thursday, 6 September 2018, 14.00 - 16.00 at the SMM Maritime Trade Fair in Hamburg, Germany.

The network for “IT-Security for Critical Infrastructures” ITS|KRITIS held a workshop of the future of IT-Security in Nuremberg on June 20th 2018.

The 7th edition of the Transport Research Arena (TRA) was held in Vienna from 16 to 19 April 2018. On behalf of ISL, Dr. Nils Meyer-Larsen and Rainer Müller participated in this conference.