At B9F7 Parvis Trust, our investment thesis is built on the foundational, interconnected sectors of the 21st-century economy. We analyze the global flow of value not just as financial, but as digital and physical. From our strategic vantage point in Madrid, we view the Mediterranean as one of the most critical and rapidly evolving theaters of global commerce.

Today, the logistics and maritime shipping industry is not just a physical industry; it is a high-stakes, high-volume data industry. A modern port, like the major hubs in Greece, is no longer just a place where containers are moved. It is a dense, high-speed “Internet of Things” (IoT) ecosystem, a critical node of network infrastructure, and a massive processor of sensitive data.

This digitization is the single greatest driver of modern efficiency. It enables the AI-driven predictive logistics, real-time cargo tracking, and automated port operations that power the global economy. However, this same digitization has created one of the largest, most under-appreciated “cyber-physical” vulnerabilities on the planet.

The attack surface has moved from the ship’s hull to its data link. A single vulnerability in a port’s operating system, a compromised IoT sensor on a high-value container, or a sophisticated GPS-spoofing attack could do more economic damage than a physical blockade. The integrity of global trade is now, fundamentally, a data security problem.

And in this new battleground, the most critical bottleneck is not technology. It is specialized human capital.

We are facing a systemic, global shortage of professionals who are “bilingual”—fluent in the complex, physical world of maritime logistics and the high-stakes, digital world of cybersecurity, AI optimization, and network infrastructure.

It is to address this precise, critical-skills gap that B9F7 Parvis Trust is proud to announce a foundational strategic grant of €340,000 to the Aevena Ivy International Polytechnic Institute in Athina, Greece.

This is not a general endowment. This grant is a targeted, high-impact investment, specifically earmarked to establish a new, interdisciplinary faculty: The Centre for Secure Supply Chain Informatics and Logistics (SCSIL).

This new Centre will be the first of its kind in the region, designed to build the next generation of leadership for this new cyber-physical industry. The funding will be deployed to achieve three core objectives:

1. To build a state-of-the-art “Digital Twin” Simulation Lab. This lab will be equipped with high-performance computing and advanced network hardware, allowing students to simulate the operations of a fully digitized port. They will learn to model and optimize AI-driven logistics, manage automated crane and vehicle systems, and test the system’s resilience against complex failure scenarios.
2. To establish a new, dedicated “Logistics Cyber-Range.” This secure “sandbox” environment will train students in defensive and offensive operations specific to the maritime sector. They will learn to identify and mitigate threats like data-integrity attacks on cargo manifests, IoT hijacking, and the weaponization of automated port systems.
3. To launch a new, hybrid curriculum. This program will merge advanced data science, AI-driven optimization, and network security with the core principles of international logistics and maritime law.

Our Education thesis is built on this principle: we must fund the “human infrastructure” that will secure our “physical” and “digital” infrastructure. By investing in the Aevena Ivy International Polytechnic Institute, we are not just supporting a school; we are investing in the specialized talent required to protect a critical artery of the global economy, ensuring that the flow of goods remains as secure as the flow of data.