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The SEAMLESS project, funded under the European Union's Horizon Europe program, commenced in February 2023. During the project's 40-week duration, the Its aim is to develop and adapt essential components to create a fully automated, economically viable, cost-effective, and resilient waterborne freight feeder loop service for Short Sea Shipping (SSS) and/or Inland Waterways Transport (IWT). TIC4.0 is playing an active role in the project as a partner, providing its expertise in standardisation and data models. The foreseen duration of the project is 40 months from the aforementioned start date.

The “Horizon Europe” programme is the latest iteration of the EU Research Framework Programmes, which have been running since 1984. In these, the EU defines specific “calls” or topics of interest for research ranging from health science, physics, etc. to transportation and digitalisation. Goals are defined according to EU policies and targets: for example, later EU programmes have placed strong focus on decarbonisation and digitalisation. European companies and institutions can opt for the funding either alone or forming multinational consortiums to tackle projects with companies from across the Member States. If the project is approved by the European Commission, funding is awarded to them to start working.

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Finally, TIC4.0 has made a minor contribution to the development of Deliverable 5.1, "ModalNET Specifications, Systems Architecture, and Design of Cyber-Secure Communication." This contribution focuses on describing how communications could be managed between the ModalNET platform and the various container terminal operations management systems.

What are the benefits of being present in

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SEAMLESS for TIC4.0?

By taking part in SEAMLESS, TIC4.0 benefits in multiple ways:

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• Work on defining the use cases has progressed as planned. The "STATE-OF-THE-ART AND BASELINE FOR THE SEAMLESS USE CASES" report has been successfully completed, laying the groundwork for further development of the use cases.

• Based on the work completed in Work Package 2’s deliverable 2.1, it was necessary to change the original location of the Northern European use case. The conditions at the Agotnes-Bergen ports were not ideal. Consequently, the use case has been shifted to connect Horten with the Port of Moss in Norway. This change offers better conditions for the physical demonstration of the use case. 

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