Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism ECMT/UNECE Seminar

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia

Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism

ECMT/UNECE Seminar

INTERMODAL TRANSPORT BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA:

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

HOSTED BY MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT OF UKRAINE

KIEV, 27 and 28 September 2004



R O M A N I A

Marin STANCUSuperior CounsellorGeneral Direction for Railway Transport

MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, CONSTRUCTIONS AND TOURISM

KIEV, 27 and 28 September 2004

CONTRIBUTION OF ROMANIA TO INTERMODAL TRANSPORT BETWEEN

EUROPE AND ASIA

ROMANIA Candidate Country 238 391 km238 391 km² ²

22.5 millions people22.5 millions people Bucharest – 2.5 mil.Bucharest – 2.5 mil. Position:

• South-East of Europe• neighbor with Black Sea

Transport:• West-East: Europe-Asia• North-South of Europe


Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Construction and Tourism

EUROPE

ASIA



Actual status:

ROMANIA closed in 2003 the provisional negotiations

with EUROPEAN UNION for Chapter 9 – Policy in the

field of transports.

Next step:

The foresight for accession of ROMANIA to

EUROPEAN UNION is January 1st 2007.



1. TRANSPORT CORRIDORS THROUGH ROMANIA 2. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON INTERMODAL TRANSPORT IN ROMANIA

3. VOLUME OF INTERMODAL TRANSPORT IN ROMANIA

4. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT TERMINALS IN ROMANIA

5. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS IN ROMANIA

6. IT DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES

7. CONCLUSIONS



1. TRANSPORT CORRIDORS THROUGH ROMANIA





Pan-European Transport Corridorsin Romania

Corridor IV: Central Europe – South East Europe Berlin/Nurnberg–Praha–Budapest–Arad-Bucharest–Constanta Arad–Timisoara–Craiova–Calafat–Vidin–Istanbul/Thessaloniki

Corridor VII: Danube (waterway corridor)

Corridor IX: North East Europe – South East Europe Helsinki-S.Petersburg-Kiev/Moskva-Odessa-Chisinau-Iasi -Bucharest-Giurgiu-Dimitrovgrad-Alexandroupolis



Corridor VII (Danube)

Corridor IX

Corridor IV

Helsinki ‘97

BLACKSEA

ARAD

CONSTANTA

IASI

BUCHAREST

GIURGIUCALAFAT

UKRAINE

MOLDOVAREP.

UKRAINE

HUNGARY

SERBIA

BULGARIA

PAN-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT CORRIDORS IN ROMANIA

PLOIESTI

CRAIOVA

TIMISOARA



Corridor IV Main Characteristics of the Romanian Railway Sector

Length 880 km

Doubled line 98 %

Electrified line 99 %

Max speed Pass: 140 km/h160 km/h (Bucharest-Campina)

Freight: 95 km/h120 km/h (Bucharest-Campina)

Capacity Max: 210 Trains/dayMin: 60 Trains/day

Number of stations 108



Corridor VII Main Characteristics of the Romanian Sector of Danube

Length 1075 km

River and sea ports 32

Capacity 51.5 mil. tons/year

Canal Danube – Black Sea Poarta Alba – Midia Bega



Corridor IX Main Characteristics of the Romanian Railway Sector

Length 655 km

Doubled line 79 %

Electrified line 79 %

Max speed Pass: 140 km/h160 km/h (Bucharest-Ploiesti)

Freight: 95 km/h120 km/h (Bucharest-Ploiesti)

Number of stations 119



2. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON INTERMODAL TRANSPORT

IN ROMANIA



Romanian Regulations in connection with UNECE Agreements

Law 8/1993 regarding the ratification of EUROPEAN AGREEMENT ON IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL COMBINED TRANSPORT LINES AND RELATED INSTALLATIONS (AGTC)

Romania is one of the seven Contracting Parties of PROTOCOL ON COMBINED TRANSPORT ON INLAND WATWERWAYS (1997) TO THE AGTC



Romanian Legislation harmonized with European Union Regulations (1)

Intermodal Transport Railway-Road

• Government Ordinance 88/1999 regarding the establishing some rules for combined transport, approved by Law 401/2002

• Regulation for Romanian Railway Transport, approved by Government Ordinance 41/1997

• Government Urgency Ordinance 125/2003, approved by Law 128/2004, amending GUO 12/1998 - non-discriminatory access in terminals and ports linked to rail activities - provisions for intermodal logistic centres

• Government Urgency Ordinance 12/1998 regarding transport on Romanian Railway



Romanian Legislation harmonized with European Union Regulations (2)

Intermodal Transport Railway-Road-Maritime

• Government Ordinance 42/1997 regarding civil navigation

• Government Ordinance 116/1998 concerning the setting up of special regime for international maritime transport activity, approved by Law 231/2004

• Government Decision 71/1997 regarding the authorization of commercial societies that perform international maritime transport

• Government Ordinance 22/1999 regarding management of ports and services offered in the ports



3. VOLUME OF INTERMODAL TRANSPORT IN ROMANIA



Freight Transport in Romania

Market share 2000

railway43.09%

road34.53%

river6.45%

maritime15.92%

Market share 2003

railway41.09%

road51.51%

river7,38%

maritime0.02%



Intermodal Transport at CFR MARFA- 2003 -

68

1.8

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

mil. tons

FreightTransport

IntermodalTransport

2.6%



Intermodal Transport at CFR MARFAFirst semester of 2004/2003

49.9

63.4

37.5

61.6

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

thousand

DeliveredTEU

LiberatedTEU

2003

2004

460

667

445

762

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800thousand

Deliveredtons

Liberatedtons

2003

2004



4. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT TERMINALS IN ROMANIA



CFR MARFA 24

Number of terminals

CONSTANTA PORT 4

INTERCONTAINER-INTERFRIGO (ICF) 1

TOTAL 31

FRATTI & DAEWOO 2

Existing terminals



VAN d. VLIST 1

Number of terminals

ROMTRANS 2

CFR MARFA (RO-LA) 2

TOTAL 5

New terminals in short time



Constanta Port – The turntable of European and Euro - Asian Transport

• The biggest commercial port of the Black Sea

• Total surface: > 3.000 ha

• Loading and unloading capacities: > 200 mil. Tons/year

• God opportunities for intermodal transport (4 intermodal terminals)

• Connection with Rotterdam through: Black Sea-Danube Canal, Danube, Main-Rhine



5. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS IN ROMANIA



Existing systems

• Unaccompanied intermodal railway–road transport, that grants the “door to door“ transport using the two transport modalities, without affecting the freight when changing the type of transport

• Accompanied intermodal transport (RO-LA), that offers the transport of road tractors accompanied by the drivers, technology that grants the elimination of congestion of traffic and less pollution of the environment

• Accompanied and unaccompanied railway and/or road- maritime intermodal transport, by using the ferry-boat vessels from the patrimony of the national freight operator CFR MARFA



Transport RO - LA at CFR MARFA

Special wagons (Saadkkms) 10 axels with low platform

Number of wagons: 160

Operating trains: 12 weekly on both directions

Connection: Arad-Glogovăţ (Romania) – Wels (Austria)

Traveling time: 20 hours



Using ferryboats of CFR MARFA (1)

Connection of Romania with:

Middle East

Caucasian Area

Transports in ferry-boat offers a wide range of advantages for freight transportation in wagons or trucks: reduced distance, reduced traveling time, reduced numbers of borders, good accommodations for truck drivers

Central Asia



Using ferryboats of CFR MARFA (2)

Routes Distances (Miles) (Km)

Duration (Hours)

Constanta -Poti/Batumi in operation from March 1999

600 1100 58

Constanta - Derince in operation from Aug.1999

230 414 23



6. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES



Increase Transport between Europe and Asia next 30 years

Transport of oil and other natural resources from Asia to Europe

Transport of manufactured products in both directions

Development of Eastern Europe (Enlargement of European Union)

As a result: Increase of Intermodal Transport



Increase Intermodal Transport in Romania

Transport of goods from Asia to Europe

Transport of manufactured products in both directions

Development of logistic centers in Romania:The most appropriate locations: Constanta, Bucharest, Timisoara, Oradea, Brasov, Bacau and Craiova

As a result: Increase of Intermodal Transport



7. CONCLUSIONS



CONCLUSIONS

• An important path of transport between Europe and Asia passed through ROMANIA.

• It is necessary to develop international legislation for increase intermodal transport, inclusively between EUROPE and ASIA. ROMANIA can participate at this process.

• Number of intermodal transport terminals from ROMANIA have increase.

• It is a big potential for intermodal transport in ROMANIA.

• ROMANIA intends to develop next years, logistic center for intermodal transport that will be used for increase the intermodal transport between EUROPE and ASIA.



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