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Intermodal shortsea transport
The motorway of the 21st century
Sander van ‘t Verlaat
SPC HOLLAND
 Started in 1997 based on report “No
traffic jams at sea”
 Public/private partnership
 62 participants
Main aims
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Increase awareness of shortsea
Provide information on possibilities
Analyse bottlenecks
Information source for private
companies and governmental
bodies
Enquiries
 Number of enquiries per type
2008
2009
Company
440
512*
Government
13
29
Consultant
23
8
Student
25
29
Private persons
12
10
* incl. mailing export org.
ShortSea Journaal
 Content 2009
 Russia, fresh logistics, environment
and cooperation
 Part only for shortsea sector
 Circulation about 4500 copies to:
 Shippers/logistic providers
2900
 Shortsea operators
390
 Intermodal operators
270
Factsheets and brochures
Following factsheets produced in 2009
 Ro-Ro and freight ferry
 mailed to 790 transport companies
 Shortsea and Dutch ports
 Container dimensions
 Internet
Country factsheets for
 Russia
 mailed to 340 shippers with export to Russia
 Turkey
 mailed to 330 shippers with export to Turkey
www.shortsea.nl
Visitors:
 73 unique visitors per calendar day
 5 visitors per calendar day to search
engine
Added to the site:
 Container sizes
 Statistics – transhipments Dutch ports
 Map and lines with 45ft pw containers
Now including intermodal connections
by barge and rail
Cooperation
Under name of Holland Intermodal with
 Rail cargo information Netherlands
 Inland shipping information agency
 European Shortsea Network (ESN)
 In total 22 members
 In Romania - RIA
Definitions Shortsea EU
Shortsea shipping means the movement of cargo and
passengers by sea between ports situated in
geographical Europe or between those ports and ports
situated in non European countries having a coastline
on the enclosed seas Bordering Europe.
Shortsea shipping includes domestic and international
maritime transport, including feeder services, along the
coast, to and from the islands, rivers and lakes. The
concept of short sea shipping also extends to maritime
transport between the Member States of the Union and
Norway and Iceland and other States on the Baltic
Sea, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
Shortsea destinations
Shortsea in perspective
 Major part is non-liner services
 dry and wet bulk
 neo bulk
 in Europe more than 60%
is dry or liquid bulk
 More than 50% of total transhipment
in all Dutch ports is shortsea
 Shortsea tonnes in containers, all
Dutch ports is about 16%
 Mix of feeder and intra European
containers
Types of shortsea cargo
Shortsea
shipping
Container
transport
Ro-Ro
transport
Sea-river
transport
Conventional
transport
Feeder
Dry bulk
Intra- European
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Wet bulk
Neo bulk
Shortsea containers
 Feeder containers
 Schedule follows deepsea carrier
 Intra- European containers
 Schedule according to market
demand
 Competing with road transport
Often on the same vessels !
Shortsea is intermodal
 Combination of sea- and landtransport
 With containers: multimodal
 by road
 by rail
 by inland barge
Developments - containers
Types of cargo in containers
 Cargo (on pallets) in 20 and 40ft (pallet
wide) containers
 Partloads (groupage)
 Liquids, food and non-food in 20ft
tankcontainers
 Dry bulk such as plastics in 30ft
bulkcontainers
Equipment requirements
 Already different types of containers
to suit the cargo e.g. flats, open top
 In order to compete with road
transport (13.60 mtr trailers) adapt
container to cargo
(build a box around the cargo)
 40ft pallet wide container
 24 pallets of 100 x 120
 45ft pallet wide container
 26 pallets of 100 x 120
Palletwide containers
Palletwide container curtain sided
45ft PW diesel-electric reefer
special
flower
container
developed
for
GreenRail
45ft PW diesel-electric reefer
 Inside length 13,275 mtr suitable for 33 euro pallets
 45ft container = 13.60 meter trailer
 Double stack system possible
 Suitable for rail and inland shipping
 Sufficient fuel for couple of days
 Temperature settings and controll from a distance
through micro processor
 The unit for intermodal Transport
Developments vessels –
45ft containership
Intermodal shortsea chain
Cooperation
Necessary!!!
Shortsea is an alternative to road
transport
 BUT always needs road transport
Shortsea can be competitive on longer
distances
 In combination with rail and road e.g.
Italy
 In combination with inland barge and
road e.g. Germany
Advantages
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door to door transport
one contact person
Guaranteed transittime
€
Cheaper than road transport
Via more than 200 ports
Environmentally friendly
Shortsea Promotion Centre Holland
Tel. +31 10 2041888
Fax. +31 1050619035
e-mail [email protected]
www.shortsea.nl