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GATEWAY HAMBURG PORT OF HAMBURG MAGAZINE 1/23
A helping hand towards better processes
At HHM – Port of Hamburg Marketing, our Project Department is engaged in European projects that support further development of future-oriented logistics solutions.
BY RALF JOHANNING
If you wish to implement projects, then a determina- tion to discover something new is absolutely essen- tial. The aim should always be to embody the lessons learned in everyday practice. The CoboTank research project, for example, addresses automated solutions for handling LNG in German inland ports. Until now, this area has been typified by the strenuous manual and physical work required. CoboTank aims to devel- op a partly automated cobot and a fully automated robot. Deploying a cobot should enhance both pro- cess and work safety. Where possible, the robot should be automating the loading process.
Cobotank was launched last year under the supervi- sion of oil trader Garant. The project consortium is complemented by Deymann Tankrode Logistics, DST – Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems, Port of Hamburg Marketing, Mercatronics and the Chairs for General Psychology:
Cognition and Mechatronics at Duisburg-Essen Uni- versity. In addition, the alliance partners receive support from associate partners, namely BDB – Ger- man Inland Waterway Shipping Federation and UTV – Independent Tank Farm Association.
The three-year project runs from 01.07.2022 until 30.06.2025. Funding totals around 2.75 million euros and is partly derived from the IHATEC II programme of the Federal Ministry of Digitalisation and Trans- port. For further details of the CoboTank research projects, see
www.dst-org.de/cobotank
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An additional project entitled “North Sea Region Connect” is intensively concerned with boosting the
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