KNOWLEDGE FORUMS - Thursday, 14 June 2012

Simultaneous interpretation of all the lectures is provided in English.

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Thursday, 14 June 2012 | 10:00 – 11:30, Forum I – Hall A4

The significance of inland ports as multimodal logistics interfaces
How inland ports can develop from transhipment points to high-performance logistics centres

Chaired by: Markus Nölke
Managing Director, ShortSeaShipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center (SPC)

The total volume of goods transported will rise strongly in the coming years. This will exert further pressure on transport infrastructure. European and national transport policy is therefore aiming at shifting a greater portion of these transports onto the waterways and rail networks, in order to both relieve pressure on the roads and to support the achievement of environmental and climate goals. In this context inland ports have a key role to play in sensibly linking up the various transport carriers (co-modality). Experts engaged in day-to-day operations in this area will be coming together at this forum to review the issues involved and the challenges to come.

Thursday, 14 June 2012 | 10:00 – 11:30, Forum II – Hall A4

Apps & co. for the logistics industry
Is the sector on the brink of a technological breakthrough?

Chaired by: Andreas Füchtenbusch
komma & more GmbH & Co. KG

Just what all the apps for the logistics industry will mean, is hard to say for sure at the moment. Is the sector on the brink of a technological breakthrough and therefore on the threshold to a new age of total transparency in the supply chain? Is the logistics industry at risk of losing out on future business? What scenarios are possible, and which are probable?
A panel of experts attempts to predict the future.

Thursday, 14 June 2012 | 10:00 – 11:30, Forum III – Hall A3

Safe packaging with environmental simulations – Which standards should apply?
The diversity of standards in the simulation of loads during transport, transhipment and storage

Chaired by: Prof. Dr. Bernd Sadlowsky
Director, BFSV Institute, Hamburg Univ. of Applied Sciences and

Dipl.-Ing Frank Volkmann
Deputy Director, BFSV Institute

Global trade is increasing and more and more goods are being exchanged internationally. En route these goods are subjected to different mechanical stresses and climate conditions, yet the aim is always for all consignments to reach their destination in tip-top condition. Simulation tests investigate the range of stresses affecting loading units during transit and help optimise packaging to give proper protection. Simulations are based on different testing regulations. But which standards are applied and why? And is there more than one test standard for each test? Are these comparable? The latest findings from research will be presented in this forum.

Thursday, 14 June 2012 | 14:00 – 15:30, Forum I – Hall A4

People make logistics
Personnel management as a success factor in companies

Chaired by: Werner Gliem
Management Spokesman, Logistik-Initiative Hamburg

Employees don´t just cost a company money, they also of course earn that company money – provided of course they have the right training. Ensuring that is the case is the job of management, because nowadays the "resource" of people is a critical factor in the success of a company. Professional personnel management, oriented towards life phases and demographics, is becoming increasingly important. Here in particular the logistics sector, with its mainly small and medium-sized businesses, has some catching up to do.

Thursday, 14 June 2012 | 14:00 – 15:30, Forum II – Hall A4

The North Range ports in competition for logistics flow systems in maritime supply chains
Rising volatility and complexity of competition as key drivers in old and new challenges

Chaired by: Prof. Kai Hoffmann
Director Logistics School, Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg (Euro-FH)

Competition among the North Range ports is becoming tougher and ever more complex. The volatility in cargo volumes in the container business is increasingly dominating the long-term growth trend. The maritime ports as a component in global maritime supply chains are in intense competition with each another to offer the smoothest processing of logistics operations.

Accessibility from the sea, the trend in ship sizes, speed of clearance, space productivity, portside services and hinterland connections – these are all key drivers of competition in the network of micro-, meso- and macrologistical challenges that will be hotly debated in this forum.

Thursday, 14 June 2012 | 14:00 – 15:30, Forum III – Hall A3

Risks down, quality up
Implementation of VDI 2700 Part 5 – Quality management systems

Chaired by: GTÜ expert Rainer Köbl
Certified DVR moderator for Load Securing, Sachverständigenbüro Köbl

Apart from the legal obligations concerning load securing, a company has to implement a range of different measures if it is to reach the declared or required quality targets.

This forum is directed at both already certified companies and those which want to carry out load-securing processes more comprehensively and more carefully, based on quality agreements, not QM systems. An overview of the individual measures is presented which cover all the key process steps required for in-company regulation. The individual measures address in different areas the in-company processes.

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