Individual Partners

Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik/ Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL)

Description of the Institute:

The Institute for Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) is an independent, non-profit making research institute founded in 1954 located in Bremen and Bremerhaven, Germany.

Special Skills:

ISL is one of the leading maritime research and consulting institutes in Europe. Around 50 employees work together in interdisciplinary project teams in the four departments Logistics Systems, Maritime Economics and Transport, Information Logistics and Planning and Simulation Systems, well equipped with modern instruments in practice-oriented research and development projects. ISL operates one of the worldwide largest libraries specialised on maritime transport and logistics, which serves as a leading centre for maritime information and documentation, and publishes statistical market analyses (ISL Shipping Statistics and Market Review, ISL Shipping Statistics Yearbook) for more than 40 years.
Experienced in the area concerned is a deep knowledge of state-of-the-art processes and on-going discussions in intermodal container transport logistics, data flows and EDI, and security issues (gained in pilot projects with electronic seals and smart seals).

Involvement in other relevant/related Projects: In the previous European Framework Programmes ISL led the EC projects COREM as overall coordinator and BOPCom as technical coordinator and participated in the projects TAIE, RTIS, MASIS, WISDOM, VTMIS-NET, PROSIT, EUTP II, ADVANCES, ALSO Danube, D2D, MTCP, EU-MOP, PROMIT, COSI, CSS. ISL coordinates the projects CHINOS in FP6 as well as INTEGRITY and RISING in FP7. INTEGRITY (Intermodal Global Door-to-door Container Supply Chain Visibility) with a special focus on intermodal container chains from the logistics and security angle provides a good starting point for IMCOSEC.

Weblink: www.isl.org