Extended Gateways:

Improving the Port/Hinterland Interface

Extended Gateways:

Improving the Port/Hinterland Interface

Alasdair Crooke

Topics

What is the Extended Gateway?Role of PortIntegration with hinterlandExtended GatewayValue AddingHinterland connectionEmissions & congestion

What is the Extended Gateway Concept?

The Extended Gateway shifts the primary gateway of the seaport into the hinterland

Offers efficient connections with the traditional gateways

Provides a location for value adding alongside integrated multimodal hinterland networks

(Flanders Institute of Technology 2006)

Role of Port

The role of ports has changedPorts now compete as elements within a

supply chainHinterland access is the area where ports can

create a competitive advantage over their rivalsMovement of containers from the port to the

customer make up between 40 to 80% of total container shipping costs

(Notteboom & Rodrigue 2005)

Role of Port cont.

“routing choices, and to some extent port choices are strongly dependent on hinterland transport conditions and reliability of the route has become increasingly important to those in the supply chain making the routing decisions”

(International Transport Forum 2008, p. 8)

Integration with hinterland

Ports need to improve and consolidate their supply chain connections by integrating themselves into the chain in both directions linking themselves to their hinterlands

(Notteboom 2008)

Extended Gateway

Extended Gateways provide ports with an opportunity to further integrate themselves into supply chains by improving hinterland connections and establishing locations that support activities that add value to the freight that passes through them

Value adding

Consolidation/DeconsolidationBuilding up/Breaking down shipments

TransloadingTransloading of maritime units to domestic

PostponementWarehouse-based terminalisation

Light TransformationsProduct and package transformations

(Rodrigue, Debrie, Fremont & Gouvernal n.d)

Hinterland connection

Improving hinterland connectionsReduce congestion at the port

Freight delivered to extended gatewayFreight consolidated at extended gatewayFreight transported from extended gateway in

loading sequence and just-in-time for transshipment

Transported during off peak traffic hoursMaximise vehicle utilisationIncrease backloading

Hinterland connection cont.

(Sannen 2009)

Less direct vehicle movements originating from the seaport and a greater use of shuttles linking the seaport to the extended gateways

Emissions & Congestion

Reduced port related trafficTrade off between reduction of truck

miles compared to additional rail or barge miles incurred

Make sure problem isn’t just shifted to a new location

Consideration of new technology

Questions?

ReferencesFlanders Institute of Technology 2006, Flanders: a unique value proposition for logistics, Flanders Institute of Technology, http://extendedgateways.vil.be/docs/ExtendedgatewaysDeLloyd.pdf, accessed 23 September 2009.

International Transport Forum 2008, ‘Port competition and hinterland connections. Summary and conclusions’, Joint Transport Research Centre Round Table, 10-11 April 2008, Paris, http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/jtrc/DiscussionPapers/DP200819.pdf, accessed 28 March 2009.

Notteboom, T. & Rodrigue, J. 2005, ‘Port regionalization: towards a new phase in port development’, Maritime Policy and Management, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 297-313.

Notteboom, T. 2008, ‘The facilitating role of port authorities in the logistics chain’, ESPO/EFIP International Workshop on ‘Ports-facilitators in the logistics chain’, 11 March 2008, Strasbourg, http://www.espo.be/downloads/archive/34195bf2-7923-4736-8a08-cd2a3635dfdf.pdf, accessed 23 September 2009.

Rodrigue, J., Debrie, J., Fremont, A. & Gouvernal, E. n.d., ‘Functions and actors of inland ports: European and North American dynamics’, http://people.hofstra.edu/Jean-paul_Rodrigue/downloads/Actors_Functions_Inland_Ports.pdf, accessed 23 September 2009.

Sannen, G. 2009, ‘Antwerp’s view on extended gateways: from ‘mainport’ to ‘chainport’’, PORT-NET Workshop, 10-12 June, Antwerp, http://www.port-net.net/activities/pdf/sannen_antwerp_11062009.pdf, accessed 28 September 2009.