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companies and institutions in Hamburg is demonstrat- ed by Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center - HVCC. Gerald Hirt, CEO, looks back with pride at the last two years. Shipping companies, nautical HQs, competing terminals and, more recently, inland shipping all profit from the interface. HVCC consolidates the relevant da- ta from the various players, interprets it, and compiles a forecast overview of vessels approaching the Port of Hamburg: This is then made available to all those in- volved. Ship clearance in the Port of Hamburg is now running even more seamlessly.
“Other ports are not sleeping,” stresses Saxe. In re- cent years, the speed of technological developments has continually increased and is still continuing to do so. “The shippers set the beat,” adds Wrage. Global trading groups like Amazon and Alibaba, “take a very close look at just what a port can, or cannot, do.” Be- ing the international innovation hub for digital business transformation of logistics on land, at sea and in the air, Digital Hub Logistics Hamburg will add momentum to ‘Port 4.0’. CEO Johannes Berg hopes that the next major impetus for innovation in logistics will come from Hamburg. ■
Hamburg hosting global mobility and logistics congress in 2021
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is hos- ting the world congress ITS - Intelligent Transport Systems and Services in 2021. Together with the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastruc- ture – BMVI, the City of Hamburg will be running the eighth ITS World Congress in the redeveloped Congress Centre Hamburg, the exhibition centre and adjacent city districts from 11 to 15 October 2021. To ensure the success of the 2021 ITS World Congress, the City-State established a 100% subsidiary - ITS Hamburg 2021 GmbH at the beginning of 2018.
The Hanseatic City-State was awarded the congress against numerous other cities in hard international competition. Hamburg had already applied in April 2016. Some 10,000 experts from the fields of trans- port and IT, as well as the worlds of business, uni- versity and politics, are expected on the River Elbe.
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