- Identification of security gaps based on the current processes (business-to-business, business-to-administration, administration-to-business) e.g. using the resilience matrix approach.
- Elaboration of target processes for closing these gaps and ensuring product integrity is supported by technologies either already deployable or under development.
- Identification of existing technologies to support and improve the container transport chain and integrate security.
- Consideration of ongoing projects and their intended results (such as INTEGRITY and SmartCM from DG RTD on enhancing container supply chains) as well as parallel actions (such as the border protection demonstration programme and the GMES programme).
- Identification of additional requirements for R&D actions where these gaps cannot be closed by existing measures or research.
- Provision of a roadmap for demonstration activities where target processes and supporting technologies can establish efficiency, effectiveness and acceptance.
- Development of a guideline to improve existing or develop new technologies in order to meet the requirement given by the developed research roadmap.
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Approach
Project´s Approach
In order to reach the scientific and technological objectives, IMCOSEC will be guided by the following approach:
Acceptance by the industry is one of the most important issues regarding the sustainability of the roadmap to be developed. Therefore, all the above issues will be discussed and validated by workshops with stakeholders and the projects Advisory Board involving additional stakeholders from private end-users (e.g. carrier, shipper, transporter, terminal operators, 3 / 4 PL) and public end-users (e.g. customs authorities, port authorities, European regions including their legal authorities). Together with the international workshops these groups will ensure European wide awareness and that the target processes and technologies will be acceptable to the global business.
The IMCOSEC partners are well experienced in the sector - either from a logistics or security angle. The Consortium includes international associations, security consultants and research institutions, experts from the maritime and inland/combined transport, as well as a container security platform operator. The coordinator has long standing expertise in successful management of European research projects.