MUltimodal RoRo TrANsport on the Danube River Project MUTAND

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MUltimodal Ro-Ro TrANsport on the Danube River
- Project MUTAND -

• Prof. Dr. Dejan Radojcic
• University of Belgrade
• (Dept. of Naval Architecture,
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)
• Second Meeting of the SECI Working Group on
  Danube Transport

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Project Partners

• European Development Centre
• for Inland and Coastal Navigation
• Duisburg

Danube Transport Development Agency Vienna
Danube Project Centre Belgrade
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Summary Slide

• Refreshing memory from July 12th
• - The MUTAND Project (blue slides)
• What have happened since July 12th (green
  slides)
• Some new information concerning The Problem,
  number of trucks etc. (brown slides)
• Work Breakdown Packages for the Prefeasibility
  study (violet slides)

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The Problem 1

• SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (SEEC)
• - Have undeveloped transport infrastructure
  (railway and roadway)
• - Have inadequate number of trucks and railway
  carriages which comply to EU stand.
• THIS CANNOT BE IMPROVED IN THE NEAR FUTURE
• without huge investments
• THIS PROBLEM WILL BECOME MORE STRIKING
• with political and economical integration of
  the SEEC into EU

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The Problem 2

• IN THE COUNTRIES WITH WELL DEVELOPED
  INFRASTRUCTURE
• (I, CH and A today, H and SLO
  tomorrow)
• CAPACITY BOTTLENECKS
• In the road and railway network in the
  context of transport volume
• expressed through
• Limited trucks quotas
• Bans on weekend driving
• Additional taxes 200.000 TRUCKS
• . . . per year from Bulgaria and
• Reasons for embargoes surrounding countries
  to EU
• Safety (five years ago)
• Environmental considerations
• . . . Obsolete data!

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The Solution Shifting Cargo to Inland Waterways

• The facts
• River transportation is by far the most
  economical (per tkm)
• It is safe, reliable and economically clean
• Has enormous possibilities concerning
  multimodal tr. chains
• Has huge free capacities
• . . .
• Several obstacles
• The density of waterway network
• Time requirement
• Transshipment charges
• Characteristics of transported goods
• . . .

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State of the art of the Multimodal Ro-Ro
Transport on the Danube

• Favorable long distances
• Low developed road and railway infrastr.
• Numerous border crossings
• OPOSITE THAN ON THE RHINE !
• CONCLUSION
• A well conceived Ro-Ro concept becomes very
  attractive

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The Objective of the MUTAND Project

• Establishment of regular Ro-Ro shipping line
  between SEEC and D, A, H
• Ports of call (Ro-Ro Terminals) to be in
  Yugoslavia (amongst others)

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The Proposal

• The financial support for the execution of the
  Phases I and II
• FINANCING IS CONCEIVED TO BE DONE
  SUCCESIVELY, STEP-BY-STEP, AFTER
• ASSESSMENTS OF PRECEDING STEP
• MODIFICATIONS ACCORDING TO THE INTERIM
  RESULTS

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The Budget

• Phase I (0.120 mil EUR)
• Phase II (0.325 mil EUR)
• Phase III (cca 1 mil EUR)
• Phase IV (cca 100 mil EUR)

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Foundation of the DPC

• DPC should be the national coordinator for the
  Danube and transport technology related
  projects
• DPC should lobby in the Danube waterway
• DPC should support the inland waterway transport
  
• DPC should develop and implement the new
  technologies
• . . .

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Initiation of the COMPRIS YURIS Projects

• Intelligent transport infrastructure
• Dramatically enhance the safety and efficiency of
  the Danube navigation
• Improve fairway information (electronic charts,
  traffic signs, water levels info, standardize
  communication etc.)
• Guarantee seamless cross border transportation on
  the Danube
• . . .

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Letter of Intent between the DPC and VSL
(Association of Transport and Logistics of the
Northern Rhine Area)

• Intention to set up logistic transport chain
  from the ARA ports to the Black Sea aiming to
  build up a united continental transport and
  logistic network in Europe.
• Impact on investment projects such as
• Reconstruction of Bgd/Pa Ports
• Building of Danube Combi Ships
• Reconstruction of shipyards

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The Pontoon Bridge in Novi Sad

• Opening once per week (new equipment will
  increase the frequency in the near future)
• Positive expectations the new bridge will be
  finished in two years time

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The term MODAL SHIFT - from roadway
to waterway - means a perfect symbiosis between
two transport modalitiesShip Truck
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The Facts (2000) Origin and Number of
tracks
(with goods)
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Transporting Charges

• Belgrade - Frankfurt 1200 EUR
• Frankfurt - Belgrade 1650 EUR (100 EUR)
• TOTAL (both ways) cca 2850 EUR (per truck)
• Taxes for passing through Yugoslavia
• Roads 0.0039 /t km, Formalities 25 EUR, Parking
  50 EUR, Toll fee 130 EUR,Visas 25 EUR
• TOTAL taxes cca 320 EUR (per truck)

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The Facts (2000)

• More than 600.000 trucks crossed the YU border
  out of this, 260.000 entered
  and 230.000 left YU with goods, (difference make
  empty trucks)
• Transit (one way, with goods) 90.000
• No. of trucks entering YU from

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Road Permissions(FOR YU TRUCKS)

• Main transport route from YU to Germany and
  viceversa.
• Number of permissions for passing through
• Austria - 6.000, Germany - 25.000,
• Hungary - 22.000, Croatia - 2.500.
• Desperately needed approximately
  15.000 passes through Austria !
• The ways how to overcome the problem
• Bar-Bari, HR-SLO-I, H-SK-CZ and
• Road-Rail combined transport Szeged-Wels - next
  slide

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Road-Rail Combined Transport(ROLA Trains
Szeged-Wels)

• - ROLA trains carry the entire truck and its
  driver. Driver has the opportunity to relax
  during the travel.
• - The train travels in
  accordance with the timetable, the
  border passing is short (no
  customs at the border).
• - Accompanied or
  unaccompanied traffic.

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Road-Rail Combined Transport(ROLA Trains
Szeged-Wels)

• The users of ROLA trains can travel without road
  permission, and can load and unload within 70 km
  zone from ROLA terminals.
• 3000 YU trucks use this commodity per year.
• Transporting charges - return ticket, cca 900 EUR
• (250 EUR subvention).
• Present two entrance permissions to A (on
  wheels).
• ------------------------------
• An absurd - the trains name is
• Danube-Elbe Express

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MUTAND work breakdown (pre-feasibility phase)
WP 100 Secretarial activities
WP 400 Danube MM-services Technical aspects
WP 500 Economic viability
WP 200 State-of-the-art
WP 300 Traffic flows
WP 210 Danube river
WP 310 O/D matrix
WP 410 Types of services operation
WP 510 Crucial issues PRO CONTRA
WP 420 Service optimisation
WP 520 Preliminary cost analysis
WP 220 Former and existing services
WP 320 ISO boxes and swap-bodies
WP 430 Ships and terminals
WP 530 Conclusions and decision
WP 330 Long-haul trucking
WP 340 Development forecast
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MUTAND work breakdown (pre-feasibility phase)

• WP 100 Secretarial activities
• Project management and co-ordination
• Interface to the project financing instances
• Provision of an effective technical leadership
• Public relation activities, meetings,
  roundtables, conferences, seminars
• Reporting

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MUTAND work breakdown (pre-feasibility phase)

• WP 200 State-of-the-art
• SWP 210 Danube river
• Outline review of nautical conditions
• Ports of concern for multimodal Danube hubs
• Interface to the project financing instances
• SWP 220 Former and existing services
• Intermodal
• Multimodal with ISO containers (LoLo
  transhipment)
• Multimodal with trucks (RoRo transhipment)
• Comparative analysis of the Danube multimodal
  services

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MUTAND work breakdown (pre-feasibility phase)

• WP 300 Traffic flows
• SWP 310 O/D matrix
• Specification of main origin-destination pairs
  within the region and through the Danube
  Corridor
• SWP 320 ISO boxes and swap-bodies
• Transport and trade statistics for movements of
  containerised goods along the Danube Corridor
• SWP 330 Long-haul trucking
• Transport statistics for movements of trucks
  along the Danube Corridor
• SWP 340 Development forecast
• Short-, medium- and long-term forecast of cargo
  transport developments through the TEN N7
  Corridor (Danube), for palletised goods, ISO
  boxes, swap-bodies and road traffic (trucking)
  
• Low, medium and high scenario

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MUTAND work breakdown (pre-feasibility phase)

• WP 400 Danube MM services Technical aspects
• SWP 410 Types of services and operation
• Particularities of different service types
  (unaccompanied or accompanied RoRo, various
  mixed and/or combined services, point-to-point
  or bus-stop etc.)
• SWP 420 Service optimisation
• Setting up the optimal service parameters to
  match the market requirements in regional
  conditions, (iterative process, links to SWP 340,
  SWP 510, SWP 520 and SWP 430)
• SWP 430 Ships and terminals
• Basic consideration and preliminary concept for
  optimal ship size, layout and performances
• Concept for terminal locations, layouts and
  ship-to-shore facilities

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MUTAND work breakdown (pre-feasibility phase)

• WP 500 Economic viability
• SWP 510 Crucial issues PROs and CONTRAs
• Comprehensive and impartial analysis of pros
  and contras for particular Danube multimodal
  service types and their impacts on the future
  developments on the regional economies
• SWP 520 Preliminary cost analysis
• Rough cost calculation for various
  transportation scenarios O/D pairs, truck on
  the road, truck on ship (Ro-Ro), truck on rail
  (RoLa), multimodal transport of ISO container
  (by truck, by train truck, by ship truck)
  
• SWP 530 Conclusions and decision
• Conclusions based on the study findings and
  results
• Decision making criteria to proceed to the next
  step (MUTAND Phase II) Guidelines and
  recommendations for the comprehensive and
  detailed feasibility study (MUTAND Phase II)

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Multimodal Ro-Ro Transportation on the
Danube in 2005
An excellent idea, but let us talk now about
FINANCING the MUTAND project