Siemens and duisport enter into strategic cooperation for the development of new truck traffic management systems for sea and inland ports

With North Rhine-Westphalia
Minister of Transport Michael Groschek in attendance,
Siemens and Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport) signed a
strategic cooperation agreement today. The purpose of
this cooperation is the joint development of innovative
concepts for optimizing traffic in multimodal
transportation hubs. Siemens’ intelligent truck supply
management system “Integrated Truck Guidance”
(ITG) forms an important basis for using existing
infrastructure more efficiently.
A first objective is the gradual introduction of this intelligent
flow control system as a pilot project at the Port of
Duisburg. As part of this process, the system will record
truck data, render this information anonymous, bundle the
information with regional real-time traffic data such as
travel times, traffic situations and disruptions, and forward
them to mobile devices and LED traffic information boards.
In this way, incoming truck drivers already have access to
all of the important traffic information that is required for
coordinated and rapid travel to the next free loading area or
terminal.
In another step, the Duisburg pilot project will be expanded
to other transport carriers such as trains and inland water
vessels in conjunction with resident customers. All of the
parties involved believe that the Integrated Truck Guidance
system offers a very good basis for optimizing and
harmonizing multimodal transport carriers for the hub of the
future. In addition, the integration of IT systems will also be
pursued in order to guarantee timely communication
between the various stakeholders and improve general
traffic flows, both into the hinterland and in the direction of
the sea ports.
“Where, if not here at the Port of Duisburg, would it make
sense to implement modern traffic management to
accelerate intermodal connections between the various
transport carriers. When, if not right now at the threshold to
the age of automated transport. Who, if not the market
leaders in logistics and traffic management; they are the
ideal stakeholders for this project. I wish you all the best
with your project,” says North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of
Transport Michael Groschek.
“The strategic cooperation with Siemens provides us with
an opportunity to optimize the efficiency of traffic flows at
logistics hubs. This constitutes an important approach
towards eliminating future bottlenecks, and also creates
new capacities. With our combined technical and logistics
know-how, we will be able to increase the efficiency of any
logistics hub in the world in the long term,” emphasizes
Erich Staake, Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger Hafen AG.
“The new cooperation between duisport and Siemens
offers impressive proof of how state-of-the-art automation
and digitization can contribute to increased efficiency in
mobility and logistics,” adds Dr. Jochen Eickholt, CEO
Division Mobility at Siemens.
Siemens and duisport have already been collaborating in
the area of traffic flow optimization since 2012. The new
cooperation was preceded by the joint development of an
integrated logistics and infrastructure concept for the “Sao
Paulo-Santos Logistics Corridor”, which combines the port
city of Santos with the high plateau Serra do Mar and the
mega-city of São Paulo.