Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services Future8
The Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML develops innovative solutions for the maritime sector and the maritime supply chain. We support companies and institutions from shipping, port management and logistics in initiating and implementing future-oriented technologies and processes.
Starting from everyday challenges, our interdisciplinary teams develop customer-specific solutions for private and public clients. In the four research fields of Maritime Logistics, Ports, Shipping and Autonomous Maritime Systems, our employees transfer the latest scientific findings from the diverse research activities into practice-oriented applications. The focus is on solutions for end-to-end digitalisation and process automation, service concepts, and AI-supported data analysis, as well as autonomous maritime systems and sustainable shipping. The innovative concepts are tested and improved at the CML through simulation, models and in real operation.
Role within QEC4QEA
The Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML contributes to QEC4QEA its knowledge of processes in shipping, port management, and logistics, as well as its many years of experience in formalising, modeling, and solving optimisation problems in operational contexts. Fraunhofer CML will model and implement selected practical problems from maritime logistics, such as the maritime inventory routing problem, using various QC approaches, and analyse the different methods.
