The Northern Maritime Corridor

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• The 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 Area

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Core idea

• An arena for networking
• Key actors, both private and governmental sector
• Region to region cooperation

Main objective To establish new/improved
shortsea shipping services
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Initiatives in the western corridor

• Ro-Ro Relay
• Samskip NE Scotland Service
• Smyril Line Extended Service

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Initiatives in the east and south

• MINORO
• Sea Cargo Service
• Norske Skog Ro-Ro
• Norferries

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Initiatives in the east and north

• Norway-Benelux Intermodal Service for Seafood
• Barents Sea Intermodal Service (BASIS)

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Norway-Benelux Intermodal Service for Seafood

• Establish an intermodal service for fresh seafood
  from Northern-Norway to the continent.
• The concept could qualify for economic support
  from the Marco Polo program.

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NMC in a global context
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NMC in a global context
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NMC in a global context
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Barents Sea Intermodal Service project (BASIS)

• Connecting NW Russia and Norway to the Continent
  and United Kingdom
• Serving as an additional gateway to central Russia

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BASIS some results

• A new NMC-report from The Central Scientific
  Research and Design Marine institute (CNIFM),
  show that ports in North West Russia are
  competible compared to St. Petersburg.

Dollar/tonnes
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Petroleum related Transport challenges in the
Barents Region

• Upstreams
• Establishing of supply bases
• Efficient transport of equipment
• Downstreams
• Large tankers
• Safety concern

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Resolution

• NMC part and parcel of the Northern Sea Route and
  EUs Motorways of the Sea
• NW Russian ports as additional gateway to central
  Russia
• Improved intermodal transport solutions