Northern Maritime Corridor

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Initiatives and Action Plans for the Development
of Competitive Short Sea Shipping/Intermodal
Routes By Chair of NMC Gunnar Eiterjord,
Rogaland, Norway
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Interreg IIIB Project Northern Maritime Corridor
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Vision

• The Northern Maritime Corridor
• A means of efficient, safe and sustainable
  transportation,
• connecting coastal areas and
• enhancing regional development in the North Sea
  Region and the Northern Periphery Region.
• NB Transportation is not an aim, but a means
  for development

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The Participants

• 20 coastal regions in 8 countries around the
  North Sea and Northern Periphery
• In addition work is being done to include 3
  Russian regions as associated partners
• Supported by 2 INTERREG III B programmes North
  Sea and Northern periphery.
• Lead partners Rogaland County Council, and
  Executive Committee of Northern Norway
  (Landsdelsutvalget)

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Economy

• Total budget 4,8 mill Euros, 50 from the regions
  and 50 from INTERREG III B programmes
• Project period June 2002 - Dec 2005

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Challenges in the NMC

• Transfer of goods from road to sea
• Intermodality
• Direction balance
• Concentration of goods, hubs
• Regular/daily/speedy services
• Decision making backlog, the hen and the egg
• Risks of ship wreckages and accidents in
  vulnerable areas
• Cooperation and competition at the same time

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The Core of the NMC Project

• To provide an arena for
• key actors that can
• take and/or influence the variety of decisions to
  be taken
• in order to implement competitive intermodal
  maritime transport
• in a door-to-door perspective

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Objectives of the NMC

• To transfer goods from truck to ship by
• Promoting intermodal systems
• Improving the direction balance
• Establishing regular/daily/speedy services that
  meet the need of the industries
• Concentrating goods to relevant hubs

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Actors in the NMC

• Industries/cargo owners
• Shipping companies
• Transporters/Forwarders
• Ports, oil supply bases
• County councils
• 2/3 of members in the regional maritime clusters
  are from the private sector

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Activities in 6 Strands

• Regional maritime clusters (one in each region)
• Promotion of SSS (short sea shipping) and develop
  new services in the corridor
• Seafood transport and logistics
• Maritime transport in the petroleum sector
• Development of a sustainable maritime corridor
• Management and technical assistance

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Relations between Strands

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Core Activities

• Review the present situation, utilising existing
  knowledge
• Conduct SWOT analysis
• Assess potentials, and develop scenarios and
  transport concepts
• Assess impacts
• Facilitate networking and negotiations of new
  services etc.
• Develop action plans

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Defined Expected Results

• Each region Developed and agreed on a regional
  action plan for promoting short sea shipping
• Business negotiations and agreements on new
  services and routes
• Increased awareness on the possibility of
  intermodal maritime transport in the corridor
  among truck and land based goods owners
• Policy recommendation from NMC regarding
  harmonising risk management

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NMC SSS Initiatives

• Western corridor
• Ro-Ro Relay
• Samskip NE Scotland Service
• Eastern corridor/South
• Ro Ro Service, Norske Skog
• Mid Norway Rosyth Service (MINORO), local
  investor group
• North Sea Bridge, SeaCargo
• Cuxhaven West Coast of Norway, NorFerries

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NMC SSS Initiatives

• Eastern corridor/North
• Norway-Benelux Intermodal Service for Seafood
• Barents Sea Intermodal Service (BASIS)
• General Initiatives
• Efficient Transport Chain (ETC)
• Cryo Container/New Technology

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RoRo Relay Service

• Aim To create a continuous RoPax service from
  Iceland, Faeroe Islands to Shetland, Orkney and
  Scotland
• Mechanism Coordinate the existing services of
  Smyril Line, Northlink and Superfast

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Mid-Norway Rosyth Services

• New RoPax service from Trondheim/ Kristiansund to
  Rosyth
• Linked to Superfast service from Rosyth to
  Zeebrugge
• Negotiations with a shipping company

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North Sea Bridge - SeaCargo
SC ABERDEEN
BERGEN
TANANGER
SC ABERDEEN WEEKLY
NORRLAND
MS COMETA - WEEKLY
NORRLAND WEEKLY
T.CARRIER - WEEKLY
COMETA
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Norway Benelux Intermodal Services for Seafood

• Main idea Fresh fish from Northern Norway to the
  Continent
• Intermodal service
• Boats/trucks to railway terminal in Bodø and
  Narvik
• Train to Oslo and Kristiansand
• Fast ships from Kristiansand to Groningen and
  Zeebrugge
• Train or truck to market

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Barents Sea Intermodal Service

• Main aim Improved services between the
  Continent and NW Russia, and being an alternative
  to St. Petersburg

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Efficient Transport Chain

• Aim To improve the business processes within the
  shipping companies, to be more competitive
• NMC together with Shortsea Promotion Centre in
  Norway and several shipping companies
• Prepared specifications for ICT supported
  business processes
• Shipping companies have now tendered and
  contracted software

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Eligible for Marco Polo Support

• Example The MINORO Project
• Road 1.260 mill. tkm
• Sea 556 mill. tkm
• Modal shift 704 mill. tkm
• Far above the threshold

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In Sum Competitive with Road Transport via
Eastern Norway

• Aim
• To avoid the detour via Eastern Norway
• To reduce the emissions and road congestions
• To offer competitive price and lead time
• Achievable!
• The sum of initiatives implies sailing every
  day

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NMC and TEN-T Network
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NMC II is approved!

• The good initiatives of the NMC project will be
  pursued!
• Focus on
• NMC as a Motorway of the Sea
• Pursuing shortsea shipping initiatives
• Utilising technological and ICT developments
• Polycentric port scenarios and framework
  conditions

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For more information about the project
www.northernmaritimecorridor.no
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Thank you for your attention!!