Happy Birthday! The Institute of Maritime Logistics (MLS) at the Hamburg University of Technology is celebrating its 15th anniversary.
The comparatively young institute is concerned with the planning, design and control of material and information flows in global maritime supply chains. In particular, the economic, ecological and safety-related requirements of maritime logistics are the focus of research and teaching.
“This anniversary gives us the opportunity to look back with pride on what we have achieved,” says institute director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carlos Jahn. Since its foundation on October 1, 2009, the MLS has been working on the topics of offshore logistics and layout planning for container terminals. In recent years, the researchers have also been working on digital innovations, such as the digital planning of port calls, systems for booking time slots or object recognition with drones. “We will continue to work on the current research topics. Especially for an export and import country like Germany, it is important that maritime logistics work,” explains Jahn. “Security and energy imports are new topics of great relevance to us.” The MLS is already conducting digital examinations and using artificial intelligence for this. This type of teaching is to be further expanded. The institute also wants to become even more international, both in terms of its team and its teaching.
The celebrations on September 20, 2020 at the TU Hamburg premises were attended by TU Hamburg representatives such as President Andreas Timm-Giel and guests from other universities and business partners such as DAKOSY Datenkommunikationssystem AG, Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH, InControl Enterprise Dynamics, KION Group, TriCon Container-Terminal Nürnberg GmbH and the University of Hamburg.
The MLS currently employs 14 members of staff, including Prof. Jahn, secretary Bettina Beckmann and the two senior engineers Ann-Kathrin Lange and Marvin Kastner. The team is also supported by five student assistants and two interns from Canada.
You can read more about the research conducted at the MLS on the institute's website.
