By order of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi) the expiring research programme „The Shipping and Maritime Technologies for the 21st Century 2005-2010” were externnally evaluated during the course of last year. Beides the companies of Prognos, Berlin, as the project leader and BALance, Bremen, MC Marketing Consulting acted as a consortium partner of the evaluation team. With the handing over of the final report and the current release for the publication the involved companies have closed this evaluation now successfully.