Partners present CoboTank at the BMDV networking conference

28 September 2022 00:00

Numerous projects from the ‘Innovative Port Technologies’ (IHATEC) and ‘Digital Test Fields in Ports’ (DigiTest) funding programmes of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) were presented at the BMDV's IHATEC/DigiTest networking conference in Berlin on 28 September 2022.

Under the leadership of the Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems (DST), the CoboTank research project, which was launched in July 2022, was presented to a broad specialist audience together with representatives from Port of Hamburg Marketing, Mercatronics GmbH and the Chair of Mechatronics at the University of Duisburg-Essen (imech). Cyril Alias, Head of Logistics & Transport at the DST and project coordinator of CoboTank, as well as Prof. apl. Dr Tobias Bruckmann, Senior Academic Advisor at imech and technical coordinator of the project, presented the CoboTank project to the audience.

In addition to the project fair with short presentations and live demonstrations, the event also included a lecture and workshop programme. As visitors to the conference, more than 140 participants from business, science and administration learnt about the innovations of tomorrow's port world. The delegations from the research projects represented also had the opportunity to get to know each other and network.