On the 12th and 13th of October 2017 the Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL) was organized by the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in Hamburg (https://hicl.org/). The theme of this year’s annual conference was “Logistics and Supply Chain Management meet Digitalization” whereas one track of the conference focused on the topic of Maritime and Port Logistics. Thus, relevant stakeholders and experts on the topic of ports were present at the conference.

FHOO submitted an abstract on the topic of “Measuring the Environmental Performance of Danube Ports” and presented first findings on this topic on the first day of the conference. In addition, the DAPhNE project was presented in course of the presentation. After the presentation and during the rest of the conference valuable discussions were conducted with other participants of the conference about the presented content and the DAPhNE project in general. The programme of the conference also included a very interesting guided fieldtrip to the Hamburg port which provided interesting insights into port processes.