3rd INTEGRITY Newsletter

November 2009 Project Newsletter Content: The Project INTEGRITY News After only one year SICIS is ready for use - The first SICIS monitored container arrived Europe SICIS – User acceptance test and training are accomplished INTEGRITY on the 16th ITS World Con- gress and Exhibition in Stockholm 2nd European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics successfully con- cluded ISL organized Security Event Manage- ment workshop ISL on the Hamburg International Con- ference of Logistic IJSTL special issue "Container Security and Supply Chain Visibility" Events Project Partners Project Newsletter, November 2009 The Project INTEGRITY INTEGRITY – Intermodal Global Door-to-door Container Supply Chain Visibility The INTEGRITY-project is funded by the 7th Framework Pro- gramme for Research & Development and liaises with several EU Directorates. INTEGRITY aims at significant improve- ments of the reliability and predictability of global door-to- door container transports by optimising the cooperation be- tween transport industry and Customs Authorities in the Chi- na-EU trade corridor. The kernel of the project is the development of the Shared Intermodal Container Information System (SICIS) allowing authorised companies and authorities to access planning and status information of selected consignments. Proactive plan- ning according to the SCEM (Supply Chain Event Management) approach allows problems to be forecast well before they might occur. Matching logistics data with security information, including data from electronic seals, container security devic- es, and scanning equipment, together with the integration of the AEO (Authorised Economic Operator) concept, are basic concepts. Ongoing efforts, e.g. from the EU- China Customs Project (SSTL) will be included in the total concept. Demonstrating the benefits following 5000 containers in their door-to-door trans- port from China to Europe will prove the applicability of the INTEGRITY approach. News After only one year SICIS is ready for use - The first SICIS moni- tored container arrived Europe After project duration of only one year, INTEGRITY has put the IT-platform SICIS - Shared Intermodal Container Informa- tion System - into practice. On Monday, 21st September 2009, the first SICIS monitored DHL container started its jour- ney at CMML Warehouse, She- kou, China. After being loaded at the Yantian International Con- tainer Terminal (YICT) it was carried to the Europe Container Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 2 Project Newsletter, November 2009 Terminals (ECT) at the port of Rotterdam where it was discharged. The container reached its final destination - the DHL Warehouse in Rotterdam Albrandswaard - on 16th October. Further containers were tracked with the first arrival in Felixstowe for BAP Logistics on 20th October. In November, a second wave of containers was tracked. SICIS tracks contain- ers’ routes along the entire logistics chain and registers all events generated by the ter- minals involved and e.g. by Container Se- curity Devices (CSDs). Equipping containers with CSDs is optional though – SICIS can al- so track containers which are not fitted with these devices. The status of the con- SICIS Basic Program – First features are running tainers, e.g. deviations from the route or special security issues, will become immediately visible and if ne- cessary, the responsible participant of the trade lane can take action. A further unique development of SICIS will be to combine the container tracking information with cargo consignment information and vessel tracking data, thereby combining all these information flows into a single stream. SICIS is an open worldwide platform which all players in the logistics chain can use, it will be a single point where all the logistics and security information is ga- thered and to which other existing systems can be connected. The technical inno- vation of SICIS consists of the fact that every kind of CSD resource can be used as a trigger of information. SICIS has the ability to receive the information and to deal with it. Tony Webster, Director Logistics of A.S. Watson Benelux and Sander Roldanus, A.S. Watson Supply Chain Manager agree about the current situation in transport logistics: "For lots of companies, the logistics chain is still a black hole. Because of that, they can only respond to deviations from schedule at a late stage. And that kind of last minute work always costs money." SICIS will become the solution for filling this information gap thus reducing this cost factor by achieving Supply Chain Visibility. Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 3 Project Newsletter, November 2009 The SICIS Features SICIS will be developed in different evolutional milestones. The methodical ap- proach is substantiated in two-part examinations whose stages build on each other and are staggered over time. SICIS 1.0 Basic Program – already running The basic features in the SICIS version 1.0 are: Data Input to SICIS - Creation of trade lane information (needed for each container) - Manual data input milestones (start/.../end) of container voyages - Connection to external systems e. g. HDN and SAVI Trak Data processing - Allocating a trade lane template to a container number entered in SICIS (manual container input) - Allocating a trade lane template to a container number sent by SAVI Trak Data Output - Container Enquiry - shows information/milestones of each container SICIS 2.0 Additional features to SICIS 1.0 are: Data Input - Vessel data input or upload - Connection to external vessel tracking system (e. g. from OHB) Data processing - Allocating vessel data to (already contained) container data Data Output - Container enquiry - show information of each container and vessel data in Google Maps Further additional features on completion Including consignment information - basically a subset of WCO's data model to be inserted to or accessed by SICIS via references. All these features will be tested with 5000 containers whilst the demonstration phase is running in real life scenarios. Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 4 Project Newsletter, November 2009 SICIS – User acceptance test and training are accomplished From 31st August until 4th September the Shared Intermodal Container Information System (SICIS) was demonstrated and tested by the responsible development group in Rotterdam. SICIS uses CSDs (Container Security Devices) which are initialised with handhelds for gathering and transmitting information about transport workflows and security inspection results. Several events like begin of the journey, departure from origin, arrival at gate or quay and end of the jour- ney are documented for all authorised participants of the transport process. The functionality of the SICIS system was pre- sented by Pauline Chung and Boon Lih Sin from SAVI Networks, Hong Kong. They showed how to activate the CSDs to get a GPS fix and monitor a door-to-door trade lane. Test of the SICIS functionality by the development group in Rotter- After the demonstration of SICIS, training and dam. user acceptance tests were arranged. Two partici- pant groups activated and initialised the CSDs while the simulation of milestones was carried out by the system developers. The CSDs worked properly and all mes- sages were transmitted. All tests runs were successfully done. With this progress the first adoption of the SICIS system in a real-world scenario, end of September 2009, could be success- fully accomplished. INTEGRITY on the 16th ITS World Congress and Exhibition in Stockholm "ITS in Daily Life" was the title of the 16th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services, which took place in Stockholm from September, 22nd to 25th 2009. For the first time the ITS World Congress and Exhibition was a multi-modal event including ITS solutions for road, railway, aviation and sea transport.