This paper describes a project of the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) to develop a demonstrator to increase the security of supply chains of container transport to decrease the risk for vessels and for hinterland transportation. ISL has developed a Supply Chain Event...

During the last decades several research projects and related initiatives have investigated innovative approaches and solutions aiming at improving transport logistics. However the level of adoption has still not reached a satisfactory level. In fact, compared with other industry sectors it is...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently funding a number of projects in order to develop services for the optimization of transport and logistics processes using satellite assets. One of these projects is I-PORT, especially addressing intermodal container transportation through European...

This paper describes the so-called CORE Simulation Environment (CORE-SE), a scenario based simulation environment which was developed in the scope of the EU project CORE. CORE-SE in particular provides means for the simulation of logistics scenarios. It consists of a software agent platform that...

Purpose: Seaports are to a growing extent controlled by IT systems. Smooth information exchange is crucial for business. Downtimes give rise to substantial financial losses and supply bottlenecks, due to the interconnections in a complex alliance of port stakeholders' systems. Hence, Cyber...