4th INTEGRITY Newsletter

June 2010 Project Newsletter Content: The Project INTEGRITY News INTEGRITY integrates vessel tracking and Container Security Devices China Customs met INTEGRITY in Beijing INTEGRITY and SmartCM – 2nd meeting of the “Joint Advisory Board” (JAB) in London INTEGRITY delegation visited Chinese tradelane partners INTEGRITY negotiates with Chinese CSD providers Project management meeting in Den Haag 3rd European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics (ECITL’10) Events Project Partners Project Newsletter, June 2010 The Project INTEGRITY INTEGRITY – Intermodal Global Door-to-door Container Supply Chain Visibility The INTEGRITY-project is funded by the 7th Framework 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 coop- eration between transport industry and Customs Authori- ties 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 security will be significantly improved. In September 2009 INTEGRITY implemented its IT platform SICIS - the Shared Intermodal Container Information System. SICIS tracks containers along the entire logistics chain and registers all data and related events which are gener- ated during the transport. SICIS monitors the INTEGRITY consortium members’ containers regularly on their trip from China to Europe. By the end of the project the aim is to monitor several thousand containers using this platform. News INTEGRITY integrates vessel tracking and Container Security De- vices Container monitoring and AIS - vessel tracking are combined with the latest key component - Container Security Devices Since the beginning of this year SICIS provides a new unique function, which links container monitoring data with vessel tracking information provided by satellites using the vessels’ AIS signals (Automatic Identification System). The vessels’ positions combined with related events like course divergences are visualized on a Visualization of vessel events using standardised tools Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 2 Project Newsletter, June 2010 world map. Buyers, sellers and lo- “At the moment, the only movements we can gistics providers in the supply guarantee accuracy on are those in SICIS. For chains are able to track vessels and us SICIS is proving to be a lifeline.” corresponding containers to get in- Robin Smith, Senior Manager Research, BAP formation about their position and Group Ltd their status at all times. Furthermore, INTEGRITY has achieved one of its major milestones in March, 2010. By using data from Container Security Devices (CSDs) SICIS is now able to monitor container movements by merging these data from CSDs and termin- al messages. The first CSD equipped container started its trip on the “MOL Prosperity” from the DHL Consolidation Centre in Hong Kong on March 29th. After following the major INTEGRITY tradelane from China to Europe the container was discharged at the Delta DDE Terminal of project partner ECT in Rotterdam on April 27th and was unloaded at the DHL Global Forwarding Ocean Freight warehouse in Rotter- dam. The starting event in SICIS was still a manual process performed by the factory where the container was stuffed. With the use of CSDs this process is also automated. By closing the container, the CSD will be acti- vated. Immediately a GPS position will be ac- quired and all details will transferred to the SICIS server. The GPS module and the GSM communication allow the reporting of waypoint events by using geo-fencing functionality and also any tampering of the container. Possible gaps during the sea leg of the voyage will be closed by integrating AIS signals of the vessel obtained via satellites. It should be noted that, although the data quality provided by CSDs cannot be achieved by other means, the INTEGRITY approach is in no way dependent on their use. Because it is considered unlikely to equip each and every container with a CSD in the near future, a The first CSD equipped container in manual start process and a tracking based on preparation for its trip to Europe terminal data are still an option. Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 3 Project Newsletter, June 2010 Johan van Wensveen, Manager Logistic Competence Center, DHL Global Forwarding, and Dr. Albert Veenstra, Erasmus University Rot- terdam, proudly present the first Container Security Device which monitored a SICIS container shipment “We want to become the “First Choice” for our customers, employees and inves- tors and are therefore always searching for good innovations and means to im- prove the service to our customers and make our processes simpler and more transparent. SICIS would enable real-time information sharing of various parties along the supply chain resulting in better visibility, i.e. including the container terminal at origin, container terminal at destination and Customs. We are using DHL controlled containers for this trial with CSDs and it allows us to perform pro-active monitoring of the supply chain. Equipping these contain- ers with GPS devices enables us to view the container’s current location and to see the security status of the container, i.e. if the doors have been opened. These enhancements will lead to reliability of the overall supply chain, enhanced security and a potential “Green Lane” by Customs in future.” Johan van Wensveen, Manager Logistic Competence Center, DHL Global For- warding Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics 4 Project Newsletter, June 2010 China Customs met INTEGRITY in Beijing On March 3rd, 2010 a dele- gation of INTE- GRITY repre- sentatives 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 Chongfu. During the meeting representatives of the INTEGRITY project illustrated the project approach and its current status. After the project presentations and exchanging information, inspiring and lively discussions followed. It was pointed out that GACC could be granted access to the neutral information system SICIS aiming at enhanced supply chain visibility and improved Customs clearance processes in the same way as the participat- ing European Customs. In summary, the INTEGRITY project was considered very interesting and its ap- proach promising. INTEGRITY and SmartCM – 2nd meeting of the “Joint Advisory Board” (JAB) in London On April 14th the second meet- ing of the “Joint Advisory Board” (JAB) took place in London. The objective of the JAB committee - launched together from INTE- GRITY and the partner project SmartCM - is to discuss the structures and developments of both projects in order to put them on a profound basis.