5th INTEGRITY Newsletter

December 2010 Project Newsletter Content: The Project INTEGRITY News One Year of INTEGRITY Demonstra- tion – SICIS writes success story DP World joins hands with INTEGRI- TY's IT system SICIS China Customs officially agree with CSD usage Co-operations with EU Projects Event News Project management meeting in Bre- merhaven on 24th and 25th August 2010 INTEGRITY generates attention on the World Customs Forum INTEGRITY presented at 1st LOGMS in Busan Experts in logistics met at the "3rd Eu- ropean Conference on ICT for Trans- port Logistics" in Bremen Project Partners Project Newsletter, December 2010 The Project INTEGRITY INTEGRITY – Intermodal Global Door-to-door Container Supply Chain Visibility The INTEGRITY-project is funded by the 7th Frame- work Programme for Research & Development and liaises with several EU Directorates. INTEGRITY aims at significant improvements of the reliability and predictability of global door-to-door container transports by optimizing the cooperation between transport industry and Customs Authorities in the China-EU trade corridor. The consolidation of data will significantly improve the transparency of the transport chain. At the same time the container se- curity will be significantly improved. News One Year of INTEGRITY Demonstration – SICIS writes success story INTEGRITY aims at significant improvements of the reliability and predictability of global door-to-door container transports. INTEGRITY achieved this ambitious aim! Since September 2009 – after a project duration of one year – INTEGRITY’s open IT platform SICIS tracks containers along the entire logistics chain by consolidating all relevant data and events which are generated during the transport. To date nearly 2.000 containers were tracked by SICIS on their journey from China to Europe. This number will increase by including addition- al tradelanes in the demonstration activities until the end of the project in 2011. SICIS is an open platform and offers various functions. As an example, inter- faces to terminal operating systems were developed in order to feed terminal messages into the system. Another important feature is linking the container monitoring data with AIS vessel tracking information provided by satellites. A further essential SICIS feature especially for Customs is the possibility to upl- oad consignment data, which can be used by Customs to further optimise risk assessment processes. Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 2 Project Newsletter, December 2010 SICIS can easily be applied to any tradelane worldwide. Due to its sophisti- cated interfacing possibilities, there are practically no limitations in data ex- change with other systems. Amongst others, interfaces to platforms like the EU projects Smart-CM dealing with similar aspects of container visibility and CHINOS addressing the issue of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in con- tainer logistics were developed. Additionally, data exchange with new business partners was established. Pre-eminent is the ability of SICIS to inter- act with any kind of Con- tainer Security Devices (CSDs). Inter- faces to differ- ent CSD pro- viders were developed. Furthermore, INTEGRITY is the first project to achieve offi- cial approval by China Cus- toms of the usage of CSDs. CSDs are used for initiating the container monitoring by sending a "start jour- ney" event when the container doors are closed and for sending security events such as "door opened" to SICIS. Moreover, CSDs provide regular up- dates of the container position by using GPS. Nevertheless, the INTEGRITY ap- proach is in no way dependent on CSD use. Equipping each and every contain- er with a CSD in the near future is unlikely. Therefore, SICIS is still capable of monitoring containers which are not equipped with a CSD. Already in the demonstration phase, INTEGRITY’s industry and Customs part- ners identify considerable benefits of using SICIS. The real-time information sharing of various parties along the supply chain results in an optimised visibil- ity and makes processes simpler and more transparent. These enhancements lead to an improved reliability of the overall supply chain, enhanced security and a potential "Green Lane" by Customs in future, thus significantly improv- ing the service for the customers. Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 3 Project Newsletter, December 2010 DP World joins hands with INTEGRITY's IT system SICIS In June 2010 DP World, one of the world’s larg- est terminal operators, and the Consortium of the INTEGRITY project signed a cooperation agreement. The direct outcome is the participation of DP World already in the project demonstration phase, intending to send terminal data on containers which are monitored during the INTEGRITY demonstration and which are handled in DP World terminals to the open IT platform SICIS. For this purpose DP World is implementing the system interface with SICIS. Demonstrations which are continuously running since September, 2009 show that SICIS is functioning properly in all parts and that it guarantees improved visibility and security of container transports. DP World, one of the largest marine terminal operators in the world, took no- tice of the INTEGRITY research activities related to the company’s interest to enhance customers’ supply chain efficiency by effectively managing container transports. DP World´s team of nearly 30,000 people serves customers in some of the most dynamic economies in the world like the Middle East and China. Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), the world’s leading port investor, developer and operator, has already been involved as a partner in the INTEGRITY project since its inception. The new cooperation with DP World extends the scope of the INTEGRITY project to additional ports and tradelanes, with the aim of im- proving efficiencies for customers globally. China Customs officially agree with CSD usage In March 2010 a delegation of INTEGRITY representatives was invited for a meeting at the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) in Beijing. The high-level delegation of Chinese Customs was led by Director Hao Chong- fu. During the meet- ing representa- tives of the INTE- GRITY project illu- strated the project approach and its current status. After the project presentations and exchanging information, inspiring and live- ly discussions followed. It was pointed out that GACC could be granted access to the neutral information system SICIS aiming at enhanced supply chain visi- bility and improved Customs clearance processes in the same way as the par- ticipating European Customs. Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 4 Project Newsletter, December 2010 The INTEGRITY project agreed to keep China Customs informed of the progress of the project resulting in further meetings to establish mutual infor- mation exchange. Now, INTEGRITY is the first project which achieved official approval by China Customs of the usage of Container Security Devices. Co-operations with EU Projects INTEGRITY closely cooperates with its EU-funded partner project Smart-CM which aims at similar improvements in global door-to-door transport chains. The different approaches of both projects will be combined in joint demonstration activities. An appropriate interface between SICIS and the Smart-CM platform is current- ly under development and will accomplish data exchange between the two sys- tems. In July 2010 the EU-funded projects INTEGRITY and E-Freight agreed to cooperate. The E-Freight project is aimed at sup- porting, from a transport perspective, the three pillars of Eu- ropean Policy, namely strengthening of the internal market and competitiveness, improving regulation to create a more dynamic business environment, and promoting sustainable development. The project will contribute to the goals of the Freight transport Logistics Action Plan and the ITS Action Plan pertaining to the development of, amongst others, a standard framework for freight information exchange covering all transport modes and all stakehold- ers, a European Single Transport Document, and a Single Window (single access point) for administrative procedures in all modes. INTEGRITY will sup- port E-Freight’s standardisation activities by providing access to relevant project results. Logistics for Life (L4Life) is a Coordination Action funded by the EU.