Transcript European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)

European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)
Statistics Committee
History, Structure, Work
Miltiadis Arvanitidis
BSc Mathematics, MA Statistics, MBA Marketing
Chairman ESPO Statistics Committee
IMSF meeting, Singapore, April 2007
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ESPO
• Founded: 1993
• Mission: to influence public policy in the EU to
achieve a safe, efficient and environmentally
sustainable European port sector, operating as a
key element of a transport industry where free
and undistorted market conditions prevail, as far
as practicable.
• Structure: General Assembly, Executive
Committee, Four Committees and Secretariat.
• Committees: Transport, Marine, Environment,
Statistics, Port Security Expert Group
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ESPO Statistics Committee
History
• Created as Community Port Working Group,
Sub Group Statistics
• First meeting April 27, 1989, Venice
• Main task: EU Directive 95/64/EC of 8
December 1995, on statistical returns in respect
of carriage of goods and passengers by sea
• Became ESPO Statistics Committee at the
ESPO General Assembly, January 23, 2001
• Meets twice a year at different European
locations
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Participants
• Members: 1 member per member state
plus observers (member and non member
states)
• Observers also include:
– European Commission (DG TREN)
– Eurostat
– ECSA / UK Chamber of Shipping
– DTMRF
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Aims and objectives
• Assist ESPO in achieving it’s goals, by providing
expertise in data collection and use
• Assist ports and the port community to improve
their performance by following “techniques of
best practice”, through port visits, presentations
and studies
• Assist other bodies (such as Eurostat (also
check its data), DG TREN, World Bank and so
on) in data collection and use
• Networking between port and port community
members
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Data collection
• Rapid data exchange system
– Exchange data between ports using a standard
format. Every port is welcomed to join
– Initiated in the nineties. Since 2000, exchange in
electronic form
– Maintained by DTMRF - Direction des Transports
Maritimes, Routiers et Fluviaux, France
– Data collected on a quarterly basis, 10 weeks after
the end of the quarter, dissemination 2 weeks later
– Future plan: Creation of a yearly database on a
restricted access basis
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Data collection
• EU Directive 95/64/EC (statistics for
seagoing traffic - cargo, passengers,
vessels):
– Expertise in creation, improvement,
implementation, port requirements,
check
– Participation in Eurostat’s Task Force
(2006) for the update of the above
directive
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Data collection
• Short Sea Shipping, EC-DG TREN:
– Data provision, since 1995
• World Bank: Study on the added value of
EU ports (2005)
– Questionnaire design, dissemination, answer
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Data collection
• ESPO Statistics Committee: Fact finding
European ports (2005)
– Hinterland transportation (barge, rail, road)
– Modal split (barge, rail, road, transhipment,
pipeline)
– Selected trades (Non containerised general
cargo, ro-ro cargo, cars, fruit, iron and steel,
forest products)
– Container trade per area
– Covered warehouse space
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Data use
• ESPO Web Site (suggestions for better
appearance of Statistics section)
• ESPO Annual Report (creation of
templates)
• ESPO Fact Finding Report
• ITMMA (Institute of Transport and Maritime
Management, Antwerp) Market Analysis
Report for ESPO
• Studies, surveys, exercises
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee: EU Seaports,
Added Value Study (1997-1999)
– Inventory creation of available added value
studies
– Methodology used by each port and main
results
– Methodologies’ typology
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee:
Benchmarking EU ports (2000-2001)
– Add value to the RDE and ESPO website data
– Tool for comparison of port performance,
ranking
– Demonstrate efficiency of the EU port sector,
promotion purposes
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee: Survey of
Port Trade Tonnage Forecasts (2001)
– Information about different methodologies
used (such as: purpose, initiator, body
carrying out the exercise, length of time, data
basis, regional cooperation)
– Summary of present forecasts
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee: Questionnaire
on container tare weight and conversion
into TEU (2002)
– Standard value for tare weight (20, 30, 40 feet
container: 2, 3, 4 tones respectively)
– TEU conversion (20, 30, 40, over 40 feet
container: 1, 1.5, 2, 2.25 TEUs respectively)
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee: EU Freights
Forecast (2005)
– Seagoing traffic forecast of EU countries on a
national basis
– Coverage (12 countries), sources and tools
– Data (1997-2003), forecast till 2010
– Multiple regression by country
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee: Information
gathering for statistical purposes (2004)
– Parties from which the info is obtained from
– Documents and messages used
– Purpose uses of the obtained info
– Documents and messages exchanged
electronically
– Statistical needs not covered by the directive
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee: Port
Capacity: Theoretical Framework (2006)
– Defining Capacity
– Planning Capacity
– Managing Capacity – a model
– Alternative Strategies
– Implementation of Capacity
– Designing Expansion
– Further Economic Evaluation
– Limitations to managing port capacity
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee – ECSA – Lloyd’s
Register Fairplay: Standardization of RO-RO
unit (2006)
– RO-Ro units: Cassettes, trailers, semi-trailers, flats,
lorries, railwagons, ro-ro containers, new cars, sto-ro
units, SECU
– Port’s and vessel owner’s point of view
– No standard RO-RO unit like the TEU for containers
– Comparability between ports
– Comparability between vessel/fleet capacity and
utilization
– Further study to be financed by DG-TREN
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Studies, Surveys, Exercises
• ESPO Statistics Committee – Eurostat:
Port questionnaire (2006)
– Port size (land area)
– Direct employment
– Number of ship to shore lo-lo gantry cranes
– Quay length for lo-lo container handling
– Maximum draught of container vessel able to
enter port
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Presentations–Reports to the Committee
• National Bank of Belgium: The economic importance of
the port of Antwerp (1997)
• Policy Research Corporation: The importance of the
Flemish ports (1997)
• Port of Rotterdam: Port added value methodology (1997)
• Port of Thessaloniki: The implementation of the maritime
statistics directive (1999)
• Port of Rotterdam: Competition of four European ports
on the German market (1999)
• Port of Rotterdam: 2020 report for the port of Rotterdam
(1999)
• Port of Antwerp: Truck traffic project in Antwerp (1999)
• Port of Antwerp: Ranking of world ports (1999)
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Presentations–Reports to the Committee
• Port of Thessaloniki: The implementation of a container
terminal management system (2001)
• Community Network Services: The implementation of the
Maritime Statistics Directive (2001)
• Maritime Cargo Processing: Ports electronic commerce
services (2001)
• Port of Dublin: The port of Dublin (2002)
• Port of Amsterdam: The need of statistical data port
planning in practice (2002)
• National Bank of Belgium: The economic importance of
the Flemish Maritime Ports (2002 report)
• Port of Amsterdam: The Dutch project ‘PortNet’ (2004)
• ISL: Company presentation (2004)
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Presentations–Reports to the Committee
• Port of Antwerp: The Antwerp port master plan (2004)
• AMARIS: The Antwerp Maritime Information Systems
(2004)
• Port of Amsterdam: Sources for Port Statistics –
proposal for benchmarking (2004)
• ISL: Port Container traffic forecasts – concept for a new
approach (2005)
• Global Insight: China’s impact on trade and the
intermodal system (2005)
• Global Insight: Trends in the world economy and trade,
an analytical guide to global trade (2005)
• Global Insight: Forecast of import and export trade for
EU 25 for deep sea trade (2005)
• ECSA: Survey on availability of statistical data (2005)
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Presentations–Reports to the Committee
• Lloyd’s Register Fairplay: Trends in world
fleet changes – implications on port
infrastructure and port development (2006)
• The Port of Göteborg on the point of view
of the oil harbour and its facilities (2006)
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Participation of
ESPO Statistics Committee
to other statistics bodies
• Eurostat (Directorate General of the European
Commission for statistics)
• ECSA (European Community Shipowners’
Associations)
• IMSF (International Maritime Statistics Forum)
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Additional future work
• Collection of data on containerized cargo
• Documents/information flows for hinterland
statistics
• Employment statistics
• Updates on the EDI projects and plans at
ports
• Improvement of statistics toolkit
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Additional future work
• Intermodal transport statistics
• Inventory of existing statistical sources on
ports
• Inventory of existing initiatives from other
groups and list of best practices and
problems to be solved
• Cooperation with other groups
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European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)
Statistics Committee
History, Structure, Work
Miltiadis Arvanitidis
BSc Mathematics, MA Statistics, MBA Marketing
Chairman ESPO Statistics Committee
IMSF meeting, Singapore, April 2007
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