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EnvironmEntally-friEndly ship takEs turbinE bladEs from GhEnt to EmdEn

At the end of July the port of Ghent welcomed the MS “E-ship 1”.

This environmentally-friendly vessel is 130 m long and 22.5 m

wide, and is only used for the transport of wind turbines and parts

thereof. Since 2010 it has been in service for the German company

Enercon GmbH, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of wind

turbines. On the ship there are 4 cylinders, each 27 metre high

and with a diameter of 4 metres. Those cylinders turn around at

varying speeds and they are in fact special ‘sails’ that help to

reduce the vessel’s fuel consumption. Loading can take place via

the stern or using the ship’s two own cranes.

Stukwerkers Havenbedrijf loaded 24 blades (in double frames)

as uniform units on board the ship. Each blade weighs 14.9

tonnes and its dimensions are 35 x 2.5 x 3.8m. Having been

loaded, the ship set course for Emden (Germany).

Earlier the blades had been brought to Ghent from Brazil, loaded

on deck of a ship that transported fruit juice.

Stukwerkers Havenbedrijf nv

Frank Vanoutryve

Tel + 32 9 251 25 45

Frank.Vanoutryve@stukwerkers.com

www.stukwerkers.com

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Jan dE nul: machinEs from ZElZatE to riGa (latvia)

Mid-April 1,550 cbm of semi-disassembled

caterpillar cranes and excavators were

loaded into the coaster MS ‘Filia Area’

(Amasus shipping company) at Jan De

Nul’s quay in Zelzate. The cargo included

a number of heavy pieces (up to 88

tonnes) for which a mobile crane was

used to load them on board. The

destination was Latvia, one of the Baltic

states. Multi Marine Chartering brokered

the service.

Shortsea was opted for because road

haulage would have meant that the

machines had to be dismantled in even

smaller and lighter units, which would

have resulted in a higher total cost price.

Besides, the total transport via the road

would have taken longer.

In Riga all parts were transferred from the

coaster directly on one of Jan De Nul’s

pontoons, which had been towed from

Belgium previously. After conversion the

pontoon will be used on the construction

site of a wind farm in Sweden.

proJEct carGo multimodally from ZElZatE to croatia…

Earlier this year a number of Jan De Nul

NV’s project constructions were loaded

into the river-vessel MS “Henja” at their

quay in Zelzate. Shipper “Steder Group”

took care of a fast, safe and economical

transport to Kinderdijk (Netherlands).

There the cargo was transferred directly

on board the coaster MS “Eendracht” of

the Amasus shipping company using

the crane of the ship itself. A floating

crane also put a 180-tonne pump on

board.

After loading, the coaster sailed to the

shipyard in Pula (Croatia), where the

goods were unloaded onto a pontoon.

They were destined for the two suction

pump dredgers, the MS “Bartolomeu

Dias” and the MS “Pedro Alvares

Cabral”, Jan De Nul is having built

there.

... and from aalst to spain

Another example of multimodal

transport started on the quay at the

offices of Jan De Nul NV in Aalst, where

two project constructions were loaded

into the lighter MS “Corjano” to be taken

to the quay at Willebroek Beton, where

they were unloaded.

Other construction parts were brought

in by exceptional road transport.

Afterwards all the elements were put on

board the coaster MS “See Stern” using

a mobile crane. Here too, Jan De Nul

worked together with Steder Group as

shipper.

The final destination of the coaster was

Sestao near Bilbao in Spain. The parts

were destined to be fitted on the fall

pipe and mining vessel “Joseph

Plateau”, which is under construction

there.

Enterprises Jan De Nul nv

Luc Pieters

Tel + 32 53 73 95 49

luc.pieters@jandenul.com

www.jandenul.com

transportation of sEEd potatoEs in EuropE maturEs

The seasonal nature of the European

seed potato industry creates specific

transportation challenges based on the

need of handling distribution peaks.

The seemingly obvious solution has

been road transport. However,

increasing environmental concerns and

the limited availability of food-quality

containers and trucks, especially in

Northern England and Scotland, have

led increasing numbers of producers to

successfully turn to shortsea transport.

foodcareplus™ offers seed potato

producers two main shortsea shipping

options, depending on if the destination

is in Europe or further afield. Both start

in the same way. The producer fills

container(s) ready for foodcareplus to

collect. foodcareplus experts help

determine if a dry or a reefer container

would be best to ensure a constant

temperature.

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After collecting the container,

foodcareplus delivers it by shortsea to

the destination port in Europe where the

container continues by road transport.

Compared to road transport for the

entire journey, the combination of

transport methods is increasingly cost-

efficient. Additionally, while using just

road transport gives a direct connection

between the origin and destination, the

destination is fixed as soon as the truck

has left. With shortsea transport, the

destination details can change up to the

start of the road transport.

If the seed potatoes are for further

afield, the shipment goes for throughput

in Antwerp. There, it is directly

transferred in a cold storage warehouse

to a reefer container for shipment via

deep sea vessel to ports around the

world, including the Far East. From

Antwerp, foodcareplus has access to

the most significant reefer supply in

Europe.

“Shortsea transports offers a cost-

effective solution to the annual problems

of transport capacity for the seed potato

industry. Additionally, the lack of reefer

containers usually available in Scotland

and Northern England has made it a

challenge for these producers to

maximize the markets that deep sea

vessels open up. An ideal solution is

shortsea transport with throughput in

Antwerp,” explains Steve Alaerts,

General Sales Manager foodcareplus.

foodcareplus™

Steve Alaerts

Tel + 32 3 242 91 50

sales@foodcareplus.com

www.foodcareplus.com

Wind turbinE foundations on pontoon from ZEEbruGGE to sWEdEn

In the inner harbour of Zeebrugge Enter-

prises Jan De Nul NV (a subsidiary of the

Jan De Nul Group) has constructed, in

barely five months time, 16 concrete wind

turbine foundations by order of the Swed-

ish client Eon.

The foundations were built on 2 gigantic

pontoons in 4 phases: concrete slab,

retaining walls, central shaft and icecone.

The height of these elements ranges from

15 to 25 m. The heaviest element weighs

approximately 1,940 tons.

On 20 August the largest pontoon left Zee-

brugge for Sweden.

Jan De Nul Group

Heleen Schellinck

Tel + 352 39 89 11

pr@jandenul.com

www.jandenul.com

30 Wind farm transition piEcEs transportEd from WillEbroEk to borkum

On the site of G&G in Willebroek work

has been going on for several months on

the production of 30 transition pieces,

which are to be placed between the

(monopile) foundations and the turbine

towers of the windmills at the “Riffgat”

project in Borkum (Germany). For each

trip three yellow towers were loaded

upright onto an inland vessel at the

company’s own quay. During that

operation the ballast of the crane that

placed the transition pieces into the

barge was adapted constantly. On the

barge itself, in addition to the continuous

automatic ballasting system, extra weight

(gravel) was added in order to be able to

pass beneath a nearby bridge.

Each trip from Willebroek to the

transhipment point in Flushing took 8 to 9

hours. The transition pieces were

transferred to the heavy-lift vessel MS

Oleg Strashnov destined for Borkum.

There the transition pieces and monopiles

were driven into the seabed using the

ship’s gigantic crane. When discharging

the pieces, the ship was held in position

with anchors and tugs, coordinated by

GPS signals.

Between 120 and 144 hours after its

departure for Flushing the ship was back

to take on the following load.

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SHORTSEA IN MOTION

shortsEa fiGurEs shoW tWo facEs

As far as the total shortsea cargo handled

in the 4 Flemish ports is concerned, the

year 2011 presented two entirely different

six-month periods. The first half of the year

showed record figures for the period (+4.7%

compared to the first half of 2010), but

during the second half the crisis hit home:

5.6 million tonnes less cargo was handled

in the 4 Flemish ports compared to the first

half of that year (-8.6%).

Comparing the figures of the first half of

2012 to the record first half of 2011 results

in a drop of 4.4% (almost 3 million tonnes),

whereas a comparison with the second half

of 2011 raises some hope again, as it

shows a growth of some 4% (plus 2.6

million tonnes).

• With almost 67.5 million tonnes the

shortsea traffic during the first six months

of 2012 reached almost 2010 levels in

the Flemish ports;

• The share of shortsea transport in the

overall traffic in the Flemish ports now

amounts to 51.43%, a figure that has

been fluctuating around that level for

some years now and emphasises the

importance of shortsea in Flanders.

In absolute numbers the end of June 2012

was reached with a total of 67,448,613

tonnes of handled shortsea traffic for the 4

ports taken together (import and export).

• With 43,379,646 tonnes Antwerp took

the lion’s share. The losses vis-à-vis the

first two quarters of 2011 amounted to

1.2 million tonnes. However, compared

to the second half of 2011 (40.9 million

tonnes), an increase of almost 2.5 million

tonnes has been noted;

• With 8,180,183 tonnes the port of Ghent

witnessed a loss of 0.7 million tonnes

compared to January-June 2011, yet it

reached a level almost identical to that of

the second half of 2011 (8.2 million

tonnes);

• Zeebrugge experienced a drop of almost

0.5 million tonnes compared to the first

half year of 2011, realising a total of

14,224,535 tonnes, which again exceeds

the total volume handled during the

second half of 2011 (14.1 million tonnes);

• The port of Ostend reverted to a shortsea

traffic of 1,664,431 tonnes, which

nevertheless was a better tonnage than

the one obtained during the second half

of 2011 (slightly less than 1.6 million

tonnes).

Meanwhile SSS took a beating on the

inland waterways (sea-river). It lost in the

first half of this year a total of 192,540

tonnes compared to the same period of

2011. The maritime canal Brussels-Scheldt

registered a volume of 560,095 tonnes (a

loss of 182,000 tonnes). On the other hand,

132,600 tonnes were shipped on the Albert

Canal, a relatively limited loss of 10,500

tonnes. The sea-river vessels take the

cargo far inland, often to a loading or

unloading facility in the vicinity of the final

customer.

Port SSS jan-jun 2008

SSS jan-jun 2009

SSS jan-jun 2010

SSS jan-jun 2011

SSS jul-dec 2011

SSS jan-jun 2012

Total traffic in port jan-jun 2012 % SSS

Antwerp 44.363.150 35.835.447 41.460.308 44.578.828 40.903.552 43.379.464 93.822.976 46,24 %

Bruges-Zeebrugge 13.542.974 11.673.087 15.073.751 14.707.785 14.135.178 14.224.535 22.456.200 63,34 %

Ghent 6.765.761 5.930.029 8.251.968 8.902.739 8.202.421 8.180.183 13.186.698 62,03 %

Ostend 4.421.354 3.120.489 2.489.451 2.247.977 1.581.444 1.664.431 1.668.676 99,75 %

Total SSS 69.093.239 56.559.052 67.275.478 70.437.329 64.822.595 67.448.613 131.134.550 51,43 %

Canals jan-jun 2008 jan-jun 2009 jan-jun 2010 jan-jun 2011 jan-jun 2012

Albertcanal 211.850 101.257 151.489 143.152 132.600

Brussels-Scheldt 706.110 436.428 660.186 742.083 560.095

Figuresareintonnes•Source:ShortseaPromotionCentreFlanders•www.shortsea.be

The monopiles for the Riffgat wind farm,

which were manufactured by GGI’s

partner In Spain, each weigh between

500 and 750 tonnes. Their length varies

between 55 and 70 metres and their

diameter is equal to 6.5 metres. The

transition pieces that are placed on the

monopiles have a total weight of approx.

300 tonnes, a height of 30 metres and a

diameter of 5.6 metres.

“To us the OSWF (offshore wind farm

foundations) market is a new business”,

says Lieven Van Hileghem, project

manager G&G International. “This project

proves that, thanks to our skill, we at

G&G are able to create a distinct profile

for ourselves.”

The same remark also goes for shortsea

shipping, which increasingly presents

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SHORTSEA IN MOTION

sEa45 Expands its 45’ offEr to turkEy and cyprus

After the launch of its 45PWHC service

(pallet-wide, high-cube containers) in

September 2011 ACB Agencies and

their partners have expanded their

offer. Apart from Greece, which was

offered right from the start, there are

now possibilities to Turkey and Cyprus

also. The service is offered on a door-

to-door basis, both north- and

southbound.

“Compared to the transit time of trucks,

the shortsea solution is about 2 days

slower. The transport costs, however,

are significantly lower and the loading

capacity is guaranteed”, says Glenn

Clercq, managing partner of ACB

Agencies.

Hitherto it has already been an

important factor for many shippers to

switch their goods traffic to shortsea.

Apart from the financial and operational

advantages, the environmental aspect

is becoming an important argument in

the decision-making process of an ever

increasing number of shippers.

“When switching from road to shortsea

the shipper reduces his CO2 emissions

by 1 tonne of CO2 per unit of cargo

loaded”, ACB Agencies says.

The service is offered by all partners

under the common name SEA45.EU.

ACB Agencies

Glenn De Clercq

Tel + 32 3 541 22 01

gdc@acbgroup.be

www.acbgroup.be

intEractivE map ro-ro/fErry for thE baltic arEa

The Baltic Transport Journal has laun-

ched an interactive portal showing the

regular ro-ro/ferry links. It also includes

full lists of ports, terminals, shipping

operators and intermodal services. The

next step will be the ‘Baltic container

map’, which will be online shortly.

www.baltictransportmaps.com/

rofemap.html

nEW brEak bulk sErvicE antWErp - ust luGa

UCS-Line is a new break bulk service

with headquarters in Saint Petersburg.

UCS-Line’s multipurpose vessels carry

break bulk cargo and containers from

Antwerp to the port of Ust Luga (west of

Saint Petersburg).

The first UCS-Line ship to call at

Antwerp was the MV Siderfly. She

arrived at the All Weather Terminal of

Wijngaard Natie on Friday 24 August

with a combined load of break bulk

cargo and containers. The second call

took place on 19 September.

UCS-Line specifically opted for a

service to the new hotspot of Ust Luga

because of the many advantages this

port has to offer: no congestion, shorter

ice period, fast cargo handling and

attractive handling fees.

RCC BV

Arnold Oostrijk

Tel + 31 78 890 36 42

arnold@rotterdamcargo.nl

www.ucs-line.com

Herfurth & Co

Benny Van Lombergen

Tel + 32 3 221 20 26

benny.vanlombergen@sdsbo.com

www.herfurth-group.com

itself as the main transport partner in the

wind energy industry.

Meanwhile G&G has also started the

construction of 72 similar elements for

the Belgian ‘Northwind’ project, situated

37 km off the Belgian coast. There too

shortsea shipping will be involved.

G&G International

Lieven Van Hileghem

Tel + 32 3 860 19 52

lieven.van.hileghem@ggi.be

www.ggi.be

sEaGo linE adds salErno to its north sEa sErvicE and GoEs dirEctly to marsaxlokk

As from Monday 17 September Seago

Line is adding Salerno as a port of call in

its North Sea Service. Apart from that

the schedule remains unchanged.

Cargo from Salerno reaches the port of

Antwerp after 14 days.

Starting on 8 July Seago Line’s Aegean

Sea Service will depart from Antwerp

directly to Marsaxlokk (Malta) with a

transit time of 5 days. Marsaxlokk will

serve as a hub for the links to Misurata,

Benghazi, Al Khoms and Sfax. Antwerp

cargo will reach those ports after 16,19,

21 and 27 days respectively. Tartous will

no longer be called at. Lattakia (18

days) remains on the schedule. Transit

times to Piraeus and the Turkish ports

remain unchanged.

Seago Line Belgium

Ivo Willoque

Tel + 32 3 205 39 01

ivo.willoque@seagoline.com

www.seagoline.com

Euro marinE loGistics offErs ro-ro from ZEEbruGGE to thE mEditErranEan

Euro Marine Logistics is a joint initiative

of Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd and Hoegh

Autoliners SA (each 50%), in which

their shortsea and feeder activities are

brought together. The service was

launched in June 2011 and was

gradually built up from mere feeder

services to a combination with purely

intra-European traffic. For the ro-ro

transport of cars, lorries and ‘high &

heavy’ material both own and chartered

ships are used. In principle, containers

are not taken on board. Project cargo

on mafi is considered on a case by

case basis.

The weekly service with 5 ships to the

Mediterranean has the following

rotation: Derince – Yenikoy – Borusan

– (Sagunto) – Barcelona – Tangiers -

Le Havre – Zeebrugge – Tyne – Bristol

– Tangiers – (Sagunto) – Barcelona –

Livorno – Piraeus – Derince.

Euro Marine Logistics NV

Gani Fetnaci

Tel + 32 2 268 07 43

gani.fetnaci@euro-marine.eu

www.euro-marine.eu

nEW bridGE from GhEnt to thE albErt canal

At the beginning of June an inland pon-

toon has taken a 104 metre long bridge

from Ghent to Lanaken-Briegden. The

pontoon departed from the quay of the

Ghent-based company Aelterman, which

had built the construction. That first

transport concerned the middle part of

the bridge, which weighs 1,200 tonnes

and is 22 metres wide. In the middle of

the summer the two access ramps, each

30 m long and together weighing 450

tonnes, were shipped in. Once complete-

ly installed the bridge will be 165 metres

long and will weigh 1,650 tonnes.

The colossus was conveyed by inland

navigation because that was the only

possible way and also because the con-

struction will become one of the new

bridges across the Albert Canal. It all fits

into the project to heighten all bridges

on the canal by (hopefully) 2020. If the

European headroom standard of 9.10

metres will be met by then, it will mean

that inland vessels with 4 layers of con-

tainers will be able to pass under them,

which will lead to a 30 percent perfor-

mance increase.

Aelterman

Veerle Aelterman

Tel + 32 9 355 50 03

veerle@aelterman.be

www.aelterman.be

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SyNERgy wITH INlAND NAvIgATION

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proloGistics 2012 - 26-27/09 - brussEls Expo - brussEls

The promotion centre took part in the pro-

fessional trade show Prologistics 2012 in

Brussels.

documEnts on our WEbsitE

The following documents can be downloa-

ded directly in pdf format on our website

under Publications > Reports and Studies

• Statistical Pocketbook 2012

(> European Commission)

• Spanish statistical observatory of

shortsea shipping (> ESN)

nEW on our WEbsitE: sss in thE prEss

A new feature on our website is the sec-

tion “shortsea in the press”. In this part of

the site you can consult articles about the

Shortsea Promotion Centre Flanders that

have appeared in various newspapers

and magazines.

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lnG infrastructurE rEport (danish maritimE authority)

You’ll find the link to the documents on our

website under Publications > Reports and

studies > Promotion Centre.

www.dma.dk/themes/

LNGinfrastructureproject/Sider/

Papersandpresentations.aspx

flEmish study about thE usE of lnG as shippinG fuEl

On 11 September the European Parliament

has approved the modified European

directive on sulphur (0.1% in 2015).

Two days later the Flemish minister for

Mobility and Public Works Hilde Crevits

presented the Flemish LNG study, The

study indicates the points to which the

legal and regulatory framework must be

adjusted to be able to offer LNG as

shipping fuel in the Flemish ports.

Minister Hilde Crevits: “In order for

transport over water to progress in a

sustainable manner, the production of

hazardous and polluting emissions by

burning shipping fuel must be reduced.

LNG is environmentally friendly and by far

the cheapest alternative to heavy fuel oil.

By completing this study on the various

aspects of bunkering LNG in the Flemish

ports, we are anticipating the stricter

standards imposed by the International

Maritime Organization on the sulphur

emissions from shipping fuel. Flanders has

now taken a clear step towards offering

LNG in our sea ports. This makes Flanders

one of the European leaders concerning

the development of LNG infrastructure.

Furthermore, Europe approved the

amended Sulphur Directive the day before

yesterday. Expanding the scope of the

Directive has had the fortunate effect of

strengthening the competitive position of

the ports.”

Source: press release, 13 September

2012

http://www.flanderslogistics.be/fpa/

lng.php or via our website under

Publications > Reports and Studies >

Promotion Centre

Eco bonus in norWay?

The Norwegian government is working on

a National Transport Plan in which the

introduction of an eco bonus is being

considered. If the plan gets approved,

shippers and forwarders would receive an

eco bonus to the equivalent of 135 euros

per trailer when they use shortsea

services. For the 2014-2023 period this

would imply a budget of 20 million euros.

The Norwegian Shortsea Promotion

Centre has worked out a proposal which it

submitted to the government. The aim is

to reduce the infrastructure costs and

maintenance of the roads, to decrease the

number of accidents and to bring down

the CO2 emissions.

www.shiptonorway.no/sitepages/

newsdetail.aspx?nid=27&t=Eco+bo

nus+for+Norway

shorE poWEr proJEct in thE port of GhEnt

In 2014 ships will be able to make use of

shore power in Ghent. As soon as the

ship is moored it connects to shore-

based power and the diesel generators

can be switched off. The joint initiative of

the Ghent Port Authority and DFDS

Seaways is a first for the port of Ghent. It

will spare the environment as far as

emissions and noise hindrance are

concerned. In the other Flemish ports

shore power is already being supplied in

Antwerp (Hansa Dock quay 242-252)

and Zeebrugge (since 2000). In Ostend

it is not available as yet.

ENvIRONMENT

PROMOTION CENTRE

ENvIRONMENT

finnish EnvironmEntal brochurE

The brochure “Transport and the

environment” of our Finnish colleagues

can be found on our website under

Publications > Reports and Studies > ESN

http://www.shortsea.be/html_en/

publicaties/rapportenenstudies_

esn.html

Eu Grants almost €200 million to support kEy tEn-t infrastructurE proJEcts

The European Commission has

selected 74 projects that will receive

almost 200 million euros in EU

co-financing from the trans-European

transport network (TEN-T) programme

to continue improving transport

infrastructure across the EU. These 74

projects, selected as a result of the 2011

Annual Call, will use the EU's financial

support for a variety of topics, ranging

from the construction and/or upgrade of

current links, the support of transport

corridors, Public-Private Partnerships

(PPPs) and innovative financial

instruments.

The document can be found under

Publications > Reports and Studies >

European Commission

http://www.shortsea.be/html_en/

publicaties/rapportenenstudies_

ec.html

“maritimE transport & futurE policiEs” (maritimE transport clustEr)

This report can be downloaded directly in

pdf format via our website.

http://www.shortsea.be/html_en/

publicaties/rapportenenstudies_

promobureau.html

proJEct WEbsitE WWW.sss2025.Eu: “shortsEa ship of thE futurE”

On the website www.sss2025.eu you

can get an indication of the ideas and

requirements needed to design the

shortsea shop of the future.

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