diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f2bbd4f24..582817e85 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ install:
   - echo "DB_WORLD_CONF=\"MYSQL_USER='root'; MYSQL_PASS=''; MYSQL_HOST='127.0.0.1';\"" >> conf/config.sh  
   # create and import mysql
   - mysql -e "SET GLOBAL sql_mode = '';" # this is necessary because of mysql 5.7
+  - mysql -e "SET GLOBAL max_allowed_packet=128*1024*1024;"
   - bash ./acore.sh "db-assembler" "import-all"
 
 script: