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Clustering the Motorways of the Sea- in the Baltic Region
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Unifeeder in brief
The largest feedering network in Northern Europe
A growing pan-European shortsea business
Founded in 1977 Headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark 11 offices in 9 countries Turnover 2010 ≈ 350 MEUR Employees ≈ 300
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Business Units
Feeder Services– extensive and reliable feeder network that covers all the major ports from the Western edge of the North Sea to the Eastern rim of the Baltics
Feeder Services, 80%Shortsea Services, 20%
Revenue by business unit 2010
Shortsea Services– integrates the feedering network andland transports into powerful intra-European logistics solutions
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Unifeeder’s network
Vessels operated: 40
Port calls in 2010: ~7.500
Ports served: 37
Countries served with vessels: 13
Nationalities: 15
EDI transactions per day: ~10.000
Offices: 16 (including agents)
Employees: 295
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Source: Actia Consulting, 2010
Total capacity (TEU)
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Trans‐Baltica
Swan Line
Sea connect Line
Transatlantic
Delta Line
OOCL
CMA CGM
FESCO‐ESF
Containerships
Maersk Line
Team Lines
MSC
Unifeeder
Number of vessels
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Largest container carrier in the Baltics
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Main developments in Baltic container transport
Volume fluctuations
• Unprecedented changes in volume
• Unreliable forecasts
• Short lead times for information
Hub changes
• Conventional hub structures changing
• Struggle between hubs
• New hub attempts
Cost focus
• Slimming of the balance sheets
• Costs should follow activity level
• Lowering unit costs
Need for flexibility
• Demand for quick responses
• Risk of marginalizing outer regions
• Ability to follow the customer
Market developments
Future
Changes
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Germany Benelux
2008 2009 2010
Market share of hub ports*
Source: Dynamar* Hub ports included here are Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam and Antwerp
Hub port struggle in Northern Europe
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Germany share of Unifeeder volume compared to Benelux
89,0%84,0% 82,0%
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54,0% 57,0%
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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 YTD
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Important characteristics of successful hubs
• Geographic location close to main waterways
• Sizeable hinterland
• Competitive cost base
• Large infrastructure investments
• High port productivity
• Stabile volume flows
• Quick adjustments to market changes
• And efficient and dense feeder networks
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Challenges / Opportunities for Baltic ports as hub(s)
• Limited own hinterland
• Geographical “appendix”
• Achieving critical mass
• “Closeness”
• Space / capacity
• Interconnectivity and co-operation
• Flexsibility
