Strategic Motorway of the Sea Demonstration Project,
funded by the EU Interreg IVB North Sea Programme 2008-2011.
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The vision of the project is to contribute to an efficient, safe and sustainable transportation system, connecting coastal areas and enhancing regional developments in the North Sea region, extending to the Barents Region.
This vision underpins that transportation is not a means to an end, but a means to improve competitiveness and job creation.
The overall aim of the project is:
Promote and facilitate shift of cargo from road to sea based intermodal transport, and to improve accessibility within the North Sea Region, by supporting the implementation of MoS and related transport networks in integrated logistical chains.
The aim is reflecting both the strategic level of the project and the concrete implementation level. On the strategic level the project intends to provide input and recommendations for the Master Plan to be developed by the North Sea MoS Task Force, and provide input to EU entities working with MoS at various levels. The project also aims to provide recommendations to national level entities as well as associations, NGOs, Short Sea Promotion Centres etc. At the same time, the project will provide SME’s and other potential MoS actors with tools to support their understanding of MoS and their own potential role in them, and thus to foster relevant activities.
On the concrete implementation level the project intends to suggest actions to be taken by public and private actors in improving the effectiveness of intermodal transport, in particular related to hubs and hinterland connections. The ambition is to make the different legs of the intermodal chain “invisible” to the market, so that the market is only concerned about the door-to-door delivery.
The objectives of the project are:
To co-ordinate the project activities and outputs, to identify and create synergies with other projects and to disseminate the results of the project
To provide a toolkit that can assist public and private entities in preparing successful MoSapplications for the TEN-T, the Marco Polo Programme and other funding mechanisms
To strengthen the role of ports and hinterland facilities in door-to-door transport chains with a view of improving the effectiveness of the intermodal transport chain
To develop a systems model for MoS and intermodal transport chains, supporting and improving decision making, planning and implementation of MoS projects, and to develop strategies for connecting transport networks and develop multimodal transnational transport corridors Demonstration Projects (DP)
To enhance the network with North West Russia entities and to pursue the Barents Sea Intermodal Service with test sailings and a Marco Polo application
To contribute to and to learn from the planning, tendering and implementation of a new short sea shipping service (NORSHUKON) between Mid-Norway, Shetland and England, with links to the Continent
To improve port regions as intermodal hubs by developing a blue print for a model on strategic intermodal action plan
To develop a suite of solutions to achieve “invisible” intermodal transport and to try out selected solutions
To contribute to modal shift by increased efficiency in terminal operations
To improve efficiency and security in the supply chain by applying new logistics technology
To integrate an end-to-end transport chain management platform and demonstrate a proof-ofconcept implementation
To contribute to and to learn from the development of concepts for offshore hubs and the MoS linkages, with the Scapa Flow Container Terminal in Orkney as a case
Envisaged results
Well managed and implemented project
MoS projects of higher quality, more systematic impact assessment of projects, and widely useful documentation of learning experiences from the demonstration projects • Recommendation for development of efficient hubs and hinterland connections, in particular the dryport concept
A systems model of MoS and intermodal transport, strategies for connecting transport networks and corridors, and potential MoS projects under the TEN-T and/or Marco Polo Programme
Performed test sailings and submitted application for implementation of the BASIS project
Learning from the process of establishing and running a PPP, tendering and implementing a SSS
Developed new projects based on regional intermodal action plans, suite of solutions for “invisible” intermodal transport, and conducted pilot trials, recommendations on intra-port traffic and technology related change management
Tested ICSO platform for container monitoring, integrated ICT platform for cargo operations, and prepared an implementation guideline MoS Strategic Demonstration Project
Learning from the process of planning and operations of offshore hubs with linkages to other hubs.
Impacts
Cargo shifted from road to sea-based intermodal transport
Improved accessibility in the North Sea Region
New business and employment opportunities in the North Sea Region
Project Partner
Lead Partner - Rogaland County Council, Norway
Vest-Agder County Council, Norway
Telemark County Council, Norway
Møre og Romsdal County Council
Møre-gruppen, Norway
Norwegian Barents Secretariat, Norway
Finnmark County Council, Norway
Troms County Council, Norway
Norwegian Coastal Admini-stration, Norway
FDT, Denmark
Hamburg State Ministry of Economic and Labour Affairs, Germany
Hafen Hamburg Marketing, Germany
Technical University Hamburg, Germany
Port of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Flemish Ministry, Flanders
Sequoayah, Flanders
International Container Security Organisation (ISCO), Flanders
Porthus, Flanders
Logit Systems, Norway
Siemens Building Technologies, Flanders
Spedition Services Limited (SSL), England
University of Hull – Logistics Institute (UHIL), England
Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland
Aberdeen City, Scotland
Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
Scrabster Harbour Trust, Scotland
Samskip, The Netherlands
Port of Narvik, Norway