Chair

Chair profile
The major topics of our research, teaching, and transfer teams are the development, evaluation and communication of innovative techno-economic measures for design and control in maritime business, logistics, transport and distributed production. Moreover, quantitative and qualitative techno-economic evaluation procedures and decision support tools are being developed and applied in teaching, transfer and research projects in cooperation with business partners.

Selected topics are
- Sustainable supply chains and supply chain management
- Mesologistics in connection with site planning and development
- Value engineering and value chain management
- Port operations and hinterland connectivity
- Logistics hubs and freight villages
- Electromobility and cargo transportation
- Distributed production systems, international transport networks and value added services
- Innovative cluster structures and processes
- Coopetitive collaboration between business stakeholders
- Decentralized control of production and logistics systems
- Cloud logistics, smart transportation, Industry 4.0 and demand chain management