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Seaports in the transport chain The Danish Perspective Jakob Svane, Danish Ports UNECE Transport Committee 2 June 2010 Geneva
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Seaports in the transport chain
The Danish Perspective
Jakob Svane, Danish PortsUNECE Transport Committee
2 June 2010Geneva
Ports and hinterland infrastructure
-In any network, the nodes are just as important as the corridors – if not more
-Ports and corridors have not been thought together on infrastructural or on statistical level (international, EU, national)
-Dawning realization on both levels:-Ports and terminals are essential
Analyzing ports-With the huge growth in global trade, ports and their role in the transport chain have moved into the centre of transport debate- Subject to analysis from growing number of academics, the European Commission, UNECE, and others- Hinterland connections a crucial topic- Port volumes are well measured, but what happens afterwards og before?- Impossible to separate debate on hinterland connections from modal split and port related traffic
Big European container ports – modal split
Modal split & port related traffic
- Big ports measure modal split - small & medium sized ports don’t
- National Statistical Bureaus or Eurostat don’t either
- How to measure port related traffic on national level?
- How to make a genuine national modal split analysis?
- Danish Ports has tried
The Danish Ports-More than 125 commercial ports -No port above 15 mio. tonnes/year-Aarhus largest container port
(500.000 TEU)-NB for Hamburg-No big ports in international
comparison – only medium-sized. Ca. 30 significant
-True network of ports-Less economies of scale, but more
flexibility
The Danish market-Total port turnover / year – ca. 100
million tonnes, 750.000 TEU, 45 million passengers, 1 million tonnes of fish
-75 % of Danish external trade volumes-85 % short sea shipping - 15 % deep sea-Container is feeder only (with one
exception)-One of the most developed – and
relatively large - ferry and ro-ro markets in the world
The Danish Case- No inland waterways, but Intra-Danish shipping is equivalent- National shipping carries ca. 20 % of tonnekilometres in national transport - an increase from 13 % in 1999- Rail 1 % - road the remaining ca. 80 %- Policy aim of modal shift- Investments in direct hinterland infrastructure
Hinterland connections to Danish ports
- Analysis in National Infrastructure Commission
- recommendation for hinterland upgrades- Political decision based on concrete demand – traffic, congestion or port development plans- Direct hinterland connections to 16 ports decided or planned – public spending ca. 750 mln. €- More ports to come- Work on an improved national traffic model, incl. freight traffic model
Three different questionnaires
- Data from 2005 (COWI)- 17 major ports, 60 % of volumes- focus on hinterland infrastructure
- Data from 2007 (Bøgetorp) - 21 major ports, 70 % of volumes- focus on markets (tonnes) and traffic- only figures for road and rail
- Data from 2009 (Danish Ports, ongoing)
- 24 major and minor ports, 45 % of volumes - specific focus on modal split- will repeat in 2011
New analysis by Danish Ports
Year Road % Rail % Sea %
2005 90,5 1,5 8
2007 85,8 1,2 NA
2009 85 1 14
- The close results strengthens validity- However, it is an incomplete modal split…
- Three data-sets comparable- Figures are not exact, only approximate, ”best guess”
The full picture
Processed
Road Rail Sea Pipeline
% 7,0 55,5 0,7 7,7 29,1
”According to Eurostat (…) the previous or next mode of transport for intermodal units” is ”missing on a coordinated basis.” (P.29 in ”Hinterland connections of Seaports”)- But why only focus on intermodal units?
Modal split of total volumes, Danish ports, 2009
UNECE report on hinterland connections of
seaports – remarks- Overall a very valuable input
- Focuses on intermodal transport – but there’s more to the transport system than that
- Huge difference between container and ro-ro/ferry hinterland traffic – should be better recognized
- Distinguishes between short sea shipping and coastal shipping – what is the difference?
Port hinterland connections
– a tricky issue-Various degrees of capacity, traffic
and congestion-Various solutions & level of difficulty
- Remove administrative bottlenecks- Simple upgrades and/or links- Larger projects (tunnels, bridges, highways)- Move the port- Interport connections (short sea shipping)
”TODAY”
”TOMORROW”
Measuring hinterland connection performance
should...- Focus on capacity, traffic and congestion, not on port size or turnover
- Include all transport modes (incl. sea, pipelines etc.) and types (not only containers)
- Take Inter-port connections and environmental aspects into consideration
- Not introduce unnecessary bureaucracy
