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Quo vadis, domestic shipping?

31.05.2021

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Northern Germany. How can domestic shipping be further modernised and made more efficient, and how can awareness of it be raised? These questions and others were posed in March at Maritimes Cluster Norddeutschland‘s (MCN) invitation at the event “The importance of domestic shipping for Europe”. Also present were experts from the Fachhochschule Oberösterreich (FHOÖ), bremenports, the Entwicklungszentrum für Schiffstechnik und Transportsysteme (DST), and around 80 participants from the fields of science, policy and business.

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