WP5.5. Railway solutions for the North-South and East-West flows

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WP5.5. Railway solutions for the North-South
and East-West flows
ILIM contribution
Leszek Andrzejewski
Project Part-financed
by the European Union
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Scope of ILIM works

• Inventory of the INTEREG,FRAMEWORK and
  national
• research projects aiming at connections
  linking Poland
• with Scandinavia.
• Deeper analysis of the bottlenecks and barriers
  in the
• projects focused on train connections of the
  West part of
• Poland with Scandinavia via port of Szczecin
  /
• Swinoujscie.
• The findings will be confronted with container
  train
• connections recently established
• Ferry Train ex Poznan via Swinoujscie to Malmö
• Baltic Train ex Wroclaw via Swinoujscie to
  Malmö

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Milestone 1 Selection of transport corridors

• Transport corridor
• West Poland -The Nordic Triangle
• Existing connections
• Wroclaw (PL) - Malmö (SE)
• Poznan (PL) - Malmö (SE)
• Extensions under analysis
• Malmö - Stockholm (SE)
• Malmö - Oslo (NO)

• Modal shift
• Rail / Ferry / Rail
• vs.
• Truck / Ferry / Truck

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Identified Research Projects

• SEBTrans - South East Baltic Transport Link
• Baltic Gateway
• Baltic Gateway Plus
• Adriatic Baltic Landbridge
• Logchain Polcorridor

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SEBTrans - South East Baltic Transport Link

• Webside www.sebtrans.com
• Starting ending date 1999 Summer 2001
• Main objectives
• The main objective of the SEBTrans project is to
  promote the use of transport corridors, modes and
  technologies, which support a sustainable
  regional, as well as an economic and social
  development of the regions involved in the
  project.

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Baltic Gateway

• Webside www.balticgateway.se
• Starting ending date March 2003 completed
  in June 2006
• Main objectives
• BALTIC GATEWAY was a transnational Interreg
  IIIB-project which involved 38 partners from 7
  countries. The project promoted a comprehensive
  system of high quality transport and transport
  related services in the South Baltic Sea area,
  aiming at regional development and sustainable
  growth. The project was structured in four work
  packages.

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Baltic Gateway
Work package 1 dealt with the South Baltic Sea
area in a European and global perspective, as a
sustainable region relying on maritime transport.
The work included the following tasks. Work
package 2 worked with improved cohesion in the
area through improved accessibility. Selected
corridors and bottlenecks were investigated and
concrete investments prepared. The work included
a) Analysis of the corridor Copenhagen-
Blekinge-Klaipeda-Minsk,b) Analysis of the
corridor Copenhagen-Gedser-Rostock-Berlin-Prague,
c) Analysis of the corridor Copenhagen-Malmö-Ystad
-Szczecin-Wroclaw ,d) Planning a new rail link
Lund-Kristianstad.

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Baltic Gateway Plus

• Webside www.balticgateway.se
• Starting ending date January 2006 completed
  in December 2007
• Main objectives
• Baltic Gateway PLUS is a follow-up project to the
  Baltic Gateway project.
• The project has the following aims- Develop an
  implementation Plan for priority investments in
  intermodal transport infrastructure and services
  in the South Baltic Sea area (SBSa) as identified
  in the Baltic Gateway project,- Provide a base
  for capacity building among the actors involved
  in intermodal transport and sustainable spatial
  development in SBSa,- Contribute to the
  development of implementation measures for
  trans-national projects,- Strengthen the
  political transport co-operation in the South
  Baltic Sea area,- Facilitate implementation of
  selected transport infrastructure investements
  and intermodal transport services.

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A-B LANDBRIDGE ADRIATIC-BALTIC LANDBRIDGE

• Webside www.ablandbridge.eu
• Starting ending date
• 06/2006 - 04/2008
• Main objectives
• Besides east/west connections and transport
  corridors, the enlarged EU also needs an
  improvement in the transport routes connecting
  the Mediterranean and Baltic countries. The
  Adriatic-Baltic land bridge project will conduct
  a pre-feasibility analysis and develop a
  deployment roadmap for north/south intermodal
  transport connections which link Europe and the
  Mediterranean countries with global markets.

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Logchain POLCORRIDOR

• Webside
• Starting ending date 2002 - 2005
• Main objectives
• Study to develop , commercially validate an
  intermodal system for trans European freight
  transfer between nordic region and South East
  Europe whose central building block will be
  Blue Shuttle Train connecting two intermodal
  centres of Szczecin/Swinoujscie and Gdynia/
  Gdansk with Vienna.

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Scope of ILIM works

• Establishment of the transnational working
• group
• Rail transport operators
• Ferry operators
• Sea ports operators
• Shippers

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Working group focus

• The working group will study the case study of
  established train connections
• taking into consideration the following aspects
• Identification of good practices (the
  bottlenecks and obstacles surmounted during
  implementation of the above container train
  connections)
• Identification of still existing bottlenecks
  and barriers requiring improvements
• Drawing up the action plan of short-term and
  low-budget issues
• Identification of investments required as
  recommendations to the regional
• transport strategic plan
• Analysis of competitiveness of the container
  train connection with road
• alternatives
• Analysis of possibility to enlarge
  connection from Malmö to Stockholm
• and Oslo basing on potential volumes and
  alternative freight calculation.

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Scope of co-operation with the WP5.5.
partners

• analysis of containerised cargo flows
• between Scandinavia and Poland
• specification of container trains
• connections between Malmoe and
• Stockholm / Oslo
• time tables
• freight / handling rates

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Thank you for your attention
Instytut Logistyki i Magazynowania
Leszek Andrzejewski ul. Estkowskiego 6 61-755
Poznan Phone [phone] Fax 48
61 852 63 76 leszek.andrzejewski_at_ilim.poznan.pl
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