Erasmus Smart Port Rotterdam
The fundamental role of inland
shipping for the port of
Rotterdam and
the involvement of ESPR in the
research project IDVV
24 Januari 2012
Prof. Harry Geerlings
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Structure presentation
1. The fundamental role of inland shipping for
the port of Rotterdam and its problems
2. ESPR involvement in the project “Impulse
Dynamic Traffic Management on Inland
Waterways - IDVV”
3. Discussion
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378 million ton :
100 million ton inland shipping
278 million ton international shipping
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Modal-split targets
1995 – 2003 share inland shipping from 30% to 38%,
2003 – 2008 share inland shipping declined from 38%
to 37%
2008 - 2035 growth path in modal-split ambitions:
2020: 41%
2035: 45%.
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2008: 1,7 million TEU,
2020: 4,5 million TEU
2033: 8,1 million TEU
2020 growth factor 2,7% per year
2033 growth factor 4,8% per year
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- Class (size) of ship
- Average load capacity 2000
- Average load capacity 2008
- Growth figure 2000 -2008
- Average growth per year
IV
V
VI
1022
1137
1744
1304
1562
2219
28%
37%
27%
3,1%
4,0%
3,1%
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Interim Conclusion (1)
The prospects are promising
and there is political support!
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Dutch policy objectives and ambitions
• Sustainable transport
• Safe transport
• Reliable transport times
• Better use of existing infrastructure
• Reduction in administrative handling
• Improvement of the quality of quality of information and
data
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Policy letter ‘Varen voor een vitale economie’
Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Strengthening the competitiveness of the sector.
- The realization of a future-proof network of waterways
and ports based on a network and logistic chain
approach
- Achieving the become the cleanest modality - Execute
the CO2 reduction program
- Continuous improvement of safety on inland waterways
- Establishing a committee for inland shipping safety.
- Stimulating innovation in inland shipping
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European policy ambitions
• Improving market conditions
• Modernisation of the fleet
• Development of skilled labour force
• Image improvement and awareness raising
• Improved infrastructure and ports
• in 2050 50% of these streams transported via
rail or inland.
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But is it only a succes story?
The sector has, for decades now, a poor
image
and there are serious concerns
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Inventory bottlenecks inland shipping (1)
1. Infrastructure (waterways, locks, terminals and ships)
- Capacity problems in locks
- Capacity problems inland connections
- No integrated approach to network hinterland
- Capacity seaports /congestion on terminals
- Availability small vessels
- Overcapacity ships
- Ffleet development uncertainty
- Effects of climate change
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Inventory bottlenecks inland shipping (2)
2. Information and Management Systems
3 Organisation sector and
- Unfamiliarity with inland connections
- Handling conditions in inland ports
- Limited bundling, hopping at terminals
- Fragmentation inland: bad position relative to
shippers and limited capacity for innovation
- Accessibility waterways 24/7
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Inventory bottlenecks inland shipping (3)
4. Other
- Depth (big) ships
- Slow developing cleaner engines
- Limited support changes to legislation
- The waterway is regularly confronted with
regulatory changes.
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Interim Conclusion (2)
However there is a big support and good
prospects
There is a threat that the sector will lacks behind
Something needs to be done to make the sector
ready for the 21th century
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The involvement of ESPR
In IDVV
Part II
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Main research question
What conditions are necessary for the growing
amount of goods reliable, durable and easy to
transport?
The focus is on the waterways and the container.
- What actions are needed to realize these
conditions?
- How and by whom the actions should be
implemented?
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Project risks
• Delays in the project because of relatively short
duration
• Poor cooperation from industry because of
overload of reearch, crisis or lack of time
• Too much information to handle
• Expired in technology-oriented solutions
• Differences in perception and valuation of
solutions
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Tasks EUR (1)
WP 1.1. A description of the current container shipping and a
problem based on the description of the inland navigation
sector
WP 1.2 A description of a future for the inland navigation
sector
- Desk research and workshop performance of IWT sector
- Data analysis: performance of IWT sector
- Multidisciplinary stakeholder and policy analysis of the inland
navigation sector
- A number of targeted interviews from inside and immediately
outside the IWT sector.
- Policy Analysis.
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Tasks EUR (2)
WP 1.3 - Identify and appreciate solutions for system renewal
WP 1.4 - Design of a transition to a desired future inland
shipping sector
- maintain and strengthen the international role of main
port of Rotterdam;
- relieving road transport by water;
- thereby improving the quality of life in large parts of the
Netherlands.
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Niveau
Termijn
Doel
Theoretisch domein
Informele instituties,
gewoontes en tradities,
normen, religie
1001000 jaar
Spontaan, nietcalculeerbaar
Social theories
(Economic Sociology)
Institutionele omgeving:
formele regels vooral
eigendom (juridisch,
politiek, bureaucratie)
10-100
jaar
Vormgeving van
institutionele omgeving
Theory of property right
and political theory
contracten, private
organisaties transacties
coördineren
1-10
jaar
Vormgeving van
contracten en
organisaties
Transaction cost theory
Continu
Bepalen van de
marginale condities
(prijzen, hoeveelheden)
Neoclassical economics
and agency theory
Aanwending
productiemiddelen
in productie
en consumptie
Culturele omgeving
Geschiedenis,
Economische sociologie
100-1000 jr
Wet- en regelgeving
Bestuurskunde,
politicologie
10-100 jr
Organisatie van de
Sector
Bedrijfstakanalyse
1-10 jr
Performance sector
Vloot/mensen/prijs/
duurzaamheid
Operations economics
continu
Technology en infra
Techniek, ICT,
geografie
10-100 jr
De sector heeft zich op een
bepaalde manier
georganiseerd en zij
presteert gegeven de
culturele omgeving,
gegeven wet en
regelgeving en gegeven de
stand van technology en
beschikbare infra
Internal Organsiation
Team Kuipers/Van der Horst (up to March 2012)
Focus on performance of the sector
- Data collection
- Characteristics of the inland navigation sector
- Organization of the supply chain, process / power relations.
Team Geerlings/Kort (up to March 2012)
Focus on Policy Analysis and technology dynamics
- EU Policy Analysis
- Analysis of current EU research
- Analysis of technological developments and potential
Both: development vision for the necessary turnaround (March
2012)
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Internal Planning (1)
December 2011:
- Data mining (Kuipers/Van der Horst)
- Inventory documents in in the drop box
- Coordination with NEA
January 2012:
- Delivering WP 1.1
- End of the month internal review SW-analysis
results
- Planning workshop
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Internal Planning (2)
Febr. 2012
- Completion of WP 1.1
- Delivering WP 1.2
- End of the month internal review SWOT analysis
- Delivering Deliverable 1
March 2012
- Workshop
- Completion WP 1.2: vision and necessary trend
- Delivering Deliverable 2
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Structure Deliverable WP 1.1
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Purpose
1.2 Interdisciplinary approach: a layered paradigm
1.3 Reporting Structure
2 THE CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF INLAND
3 LAW: POLICY ANALYSIS
4 TECHNOLOGY - INFRASTRUCTURE
5 ORGANISATION OF THE SECTOR
6 PERFORMANCE OF THE INDUSTRY
7 SW-ANALYSIS: TO SITUATIONS OF IST problem
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Work in progress
Barriers:
- Work overload (pressure due to time schedule)
- Workshop: from ‘ist-situation’ (problem analysis) to
‘soll situation’: who to invite?
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End
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