WMU Lecture

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• What are the future main links between the EU
  and the Wider Europe (countries surrounding the
  EU including the Mediterranean)?
• How to realize the shift of the modal split in
  favour of rail and inland waterway transport?
• How to improve existing railways and where to
  establish new lines?
• Should railways in future ensure both passenger
  and freight traffic on the same line?
• How to best connect EU with the wider Europe and
  beyond?
• How to further develop the concept of Motorways
  of the Sea?
• How to harmonize transport data collection
  strategies and evaluation methodologies?
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Key Points of Discussion
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An operational approach towards meeting EU
transport policy goals by promoting alternative
modes to transport to road. In consequence, the
motorways of the sea are initially assigned to
the transport of load units such as swap bodies,
containers and above all trailers and trucks in
what might be termed sea-road intermodal
transport. Continuity with European networks
must be ensured! .
Motorways of the Sea
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The maritime transport sector including ship
building, ports, fishing and related industries
and services employ around 2.5 million people
in the European Union (long standing member
states). The process of liberalisation and
opening up national markets to competition within
the EU is almost complete. Since 1999 there is
virtual total freedom to provide services within
the EU. Amongst many positive effects there was
however caused a steady drift of the EU fleets
towards flags of convenience causing more than
30 seafarers job losses. .
Maritime Transport Policy
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• A wide scope of adopted and proposed legislation
  through the European Parliament
• e.g.
• The minimum level of training of seafarers
• Maritime safety and the prevention of pollution
  from ships
• Establishing a Community vessel traffic
  monitoring and information system
• Port reception facilities for ship-generated
  waste and cargo residues
• Community guidelines on State aid to maritime
  transport
• Green paper on sea ports and maritime
  infrastructure
• Proposal for a directive on market access to
  port services. .

Maritime Transport Policy
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The European Commission ranked Transport Security
as a priority already before September
2001. Initiatives were launched at international
level and incorporated into EU legislation to
establish agreed security standards. In maritime
it has been ensured that not only ships flying
the flag of a member state respect legislation
but all those entering Community waters.
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Transport Security
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To ensure that maritime transport of passengers
and goods is safe, secure and clean the European
Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has been set up in
2002. The agencys main objective is to provide
technical and scientific assistance to the
European Commission and Member States in the
proper development and implementation of EU
legislation on maritime safety, pollution by
ships and security on board ships. After the
European ship reporting recently has become an
issue of EMSA the agency might drive the
establishment of an European Coast Guard.
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European Maritime Safety Agency
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The first coherent analysis of European
infrastructure in the early 1970s was based on a
corridor approach (Channel Tunnel, French
TGV). The concept of Trans-European Networks
(TEN) presented in the Maastricht Treaty mirrored
the idea of spatial cohesion and a single
European market. .
Corridors and Networks
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Pan-European Transport Corridors and Areas were
designed and agreed during the conferences of
Crete (1994) and Helsinki (1997). Because of the
enlargement of the EU from 15 to 25 member states
in 2004 a fundamental re-assessment of the
corridors and ares was required also better
covering the links to the Mediterranean, to Far
East and South-East Asia. There are suggestions
to extend corridors both eastwards to
Trans-Siberia, Caucasus and Central Asia and
southward to Turkey and Iran. .
Pan-European Corridors
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Trans-European Transport Corridors in Central and
Eastern Europe
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• European Agreement on Important International
  Combined Transport Lines and Related
  Installations (AGTC)
• European Agreement on Main Inland Waterways of
  International Importance (AGN)
• The Trans-European North-South Motorway (TEM)
  and the Trans-European Railway (TER)
  Projects. .

Looking beyond the EU
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Transsiberian Railway
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Transsiberian Railway
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Narvik
Transsiberian Railway
Vainikkala
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Thank you for listening!
Motorways of the Sea