On the June 19, 2015 in Sopot at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Gdańsk took place the 7the Science Conference - “InfoGlobMar”. This year's edition of the conference was organized by the Institute of Maritime Transport and Seaborne Trade in cooperation with the Departments of Logistics and Transport Systems as well as Economics and Management form the Gdynia Maritime University. The range of the topics of the conference concerned the main areas of scientific research conducted at the Institute of Maritime Transport and Seaborne Trade and Departments co-organizers.

The honorary patronage over the conference have been assumed by: Ministry of Infrastructure and Development - Maria Wasiak, The Mayor of the City of Gdańsk - Paweł Adamowicz, The Mayor of the City of Sopot - Jacek Karnowski , The Mayor of the City of Gdynia - Wojciech Szczurek, Director of the Maritime Office in Gdynia dr inż. kpt. ż.w. Andrzej Królikowski, His magnificent dr hab. Bernard Lammek, professor of UG, Rector of the University of Gdańsk, His magnificent Rector of the Gdynia Maritime University – prof. dr hab. Piotr Jędrzejowicz. The media patronage of the conference was taken by the magazine "Logistyka” and portal gospodarkamorska.pl The chairman of the Scientific Council was prof. dr hab. Janusz Żurek.

In debates took part many Polish academic and scientific centers, as well as representatives of business practice (the Management Board of the Port of Gdynia Authority SA, the Management Board of the Port of Gdansk Authority SA, Polish International Freight Forwarders Association, Maritime Office, Customs Chamber in Gdynia, Pomeranian Special Economic Zone Ltd., Pomeranian ICT Cluster – INTERIZON.

The result of the meeting are four monographs, containing the papers presented and sent at the conference:

1. A company in a global environment, red. A. Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek, T. Gutowski, Instytut Transportu i Handlu Morskiego, Gdańsk 2015, ss. 204, ISBN 978-83-7939-010-6,
2. Land and sea transport systems. Selected issues, red. J. Dąbrowski, J. Miklińska, T. Nowosielski, Instytut Transportu i Handlu Morskiego, Gdańsk 2015, ss. 201, ISBN 978-83-7939-009-0,
3. Business risk management, red. J. Winiarski, D. Wach, Instytut Transportu i Handlu Morskiego, Gdańsk 2015, ss. 129, ISBN 978-83-7939-012-0. 4. Challenges of the information society, red. K. Kreft, Uniwersytet Gdański, Gdańsk 2015, ss. 130, ISBN 978-83-7939-011-3.

There have been published 41 articles. As previous years, the conference was divided into plenary and thematic session. The plenary part includes both general economic speeches and a debate on innovation in the economy and enterprise. The interesting papers were delivered by dr hab. Jerzy Gwizdała, prof. PG, dr hab. Jerzy Balicki, dr inż. kpt. ż.w. Andrzej Królikowski and Wiesław Struk from Customs Chamber in Gdynia.

The second part of the conference was held in three problem teams:

Team 1 - A company in a global environment;

Team 2 – Land and sea transport system;

Team 3 - Information and risk management in the information society.

Dr Jacek Grodzicki