SHORT SEA SHIPPING: FOR SAVINGS, SAFETY AND SPEED

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SHORT SEA SHIPPINGFOR SAVINGS, SAFETY AND SPEED
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PLAN

• First Part what, why and who?
• Second Part Promote SSS
• Third Part Marco Polo scheme
• Conclusion

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What is Short Sea Shipping (SSS)?
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First Part what, why and who?

• What is Short Sea Shipping (SSS)?
• Why Short Sea Shipping?
• Short sea shipping contributes to sustainable and
  safe mobility
• less environmental damage, allowing companies to
  enhance their greens credentials
• greater safety
• avoids road congestions
• reliability of delivery
• economies of scale
• advantages of intermodalism
• reduced needs for warehouse capacities

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First Part what, why and who?

• Market players to be approached
• shippers and receivers
• forwarders
• transport providers

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First Part what, why and who?

• Statistics
• Market shares in 2001
• road 46
• SSS 42
• Market shares in 2005
• road 43
• SSS 45
• SSS has grown steadily

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Second Part Promote SSS

• How can we make short sea shipping more
  successfull?
• SSS is still an old fashioned industry
• it involves complex administrative and
  documentary procedures
• it requires enhanced port efficiency
• it needs new advanced technological solutions for
  ships, ports, loading units and telematics
  networks.

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Second Part Promote SSS

• Community actions to reinforce SSS in EU
• Adoption of a directive standardising certain
  reporting formalities for ships to arrive in
  and/or depart from ports in the member states
• Proposal for a new support program  Marco Polo 
• Proposal for directive on intermodal loading
  units
• Introduction of the  motorways of the sea 
• Proposal for a directive on market access to port
  services

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Second Part Promote SSS

• SSS needs to become an international door-to-door
  concept
• SSS should become part of intermodal approaches
• SSS and road market seem to be partly separate
• road average distances of a tonne 1385 km
• SSS average distances of a tonne 100 km
• Do documentation and administrative procedures
  constitute a barrier?

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Second Part Promote SSS

• Simplication and rationalisation of procedure
• the IMO-FAL directive
• Guide of customs procedures in SSS
• Promoting short sea shipping services in ports
• efficient
• short sea friendly port with open access
• fair and transparent procedures
• port hinterland connections

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Second Part Promote SSS

• Interconnections and interoperability of sea and
  land networks
• motorway refers to
• easy access
• relatively high average speed
• bypassing congested urban areas
• reliability and high level of safety
• motorways of the Sea in order to bypass
  bottlenecks in EU
• regular and frequent services to compete with
  road

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Short sea shipping should be promoted at National
and Regional levels
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Third Part Marco Polo scheme

• Budget 115 millions euros till 2010
• reduce projected growth in road freight by some
  20 to 2010 by providing incentive to switch to
  rail or water
• overcome structural barriers to modal shift
• common learning actions in order to improve
  co-operation

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Third Part Marco Polo scheme

• Concrete moves to reduce some of the burdens that
  place operators at a disadvantage to road
• easing and standardising the documentary
  requirement for vessels and for transiting inland
  waterways
• reduction or elimination of dues fees in EU Ports
• harmonizing rules governing crewing

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CONCLUSION

• Short Sea Shipping
• A new alternative for short distance transport