Digital first

Around 50 guests from maritime companies, associations and authorities attended an online event to learn about how the competitiveness of the maritime industry can be improved through the use of websites, newsletters, social media, etc. The conclusion of the potential...

Getting rid of competitive disadvantage

In Germany and the other EU member states, value added tax (VAT) is levied on the import of goods from third countries. According to the provisions of European VAT law, the respective member states determine how traders pay VAT on the import of economic goods (import...

Competition: Best teaching staff honoured

We received 52 nominations from students in academic maritime programmes for lecturers and professors who deliver particularly good academic maritime teaching. The three winners were selected by a jury and the prizes were presented yesterday evening by Claus Brandt,...

Challenges for the supply chains of the future

Questions about the supply chain of the future were the focus of the online event “Supply Chain Stability – Learning from the Crisis”, jointly hosted by the German Maritime Centre and the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany (MCN) on 1 June 2022. About 100 people...