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Development of cross-border rail freight transport in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe

Marcin Foltyński Institute of Logistics and Warehousing, Poland Budapest, 11 & 12 June 2012


Content

•  Time of crisis – the impacts on the transport market

•  Current situation of the freight transport in Central/Southeast Europe

•  FLAVIA project

•  Measures of the FLAVIA project

•  Future challenges and developments

•  REAL-Bridge project


Quo vadis rail freight transport?

too expensive

Prejudices

not flexible

only bulk goods

suitable only for long-distances

outdated equipment

rigid and inefficient regulations

lacking capacities of the railway network


§ decreasing transshipment volumes due to the economical crisis §  transport and logistics sector is effected more than other sectors § broad impact due to an interlinked global economy § after successful years in 2007 and 2008 (growth rates 7%) the turn-

over of the transport sector declined by 8% in 2009 (figures for Germany)

§ most effected: automotive industry, engineering and metal working industry

Result: § unused capacities § high personnel stock

Time of crisis – the impacts on the transport market


Time of crisis – the impacts on the transport market

Various market actors are effected… Inland terminals, Container transshipment in BILK Terminal

Ports Container transshipment in Constanta harbor

and

Rail freight operators Transported volumes in tonnes Rail Cargo Austria and Rail Cargo Hungary

TEUs 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Unloaded 391,075 525,209 708,906 696,634 288,717 279,782 Loaded 380,051 511,857 702,481 684,301 305,586 276,912 Total 771,126 1,037,066 1,411,387 1,380,935 594,303 556,694

Transported volumes in mil tonnes

Source: bilkkombi.hu

Source: Annual Report, 2010 - National Company Maritime Ports Administration SA Constanta

Source: railcargo.at


Current situation of the freight transport in Central/ Southeast Europe (1)

Decline of the rail freight transport § Changing modal split in favour of the road transport – especially in East Europe § BUT: in the short term the rail freight transport recovers slightly

Source: Eurostat.eu

Source: Eurostat.eu



Increasing negative environmental effects by the transport sector

Source: Eurostat.eu

Transport – main energy cost driver of a logistics provider

Source: Günthner (2008)

climate protection treaties: •  White Paper 2011 •  EU environmental policy: Climate

Action and Renewable Energy Package (2008)

•  Kyoto-Protocol (1997)


Insufficient transport infrastructure § Demand for modern transshipment facilities § Lacking interoperability

§ Existing capacities cannot be used due to various bottlenecks § Revision process of the TEN-T-„core network“ planned completion until year 2030


TEN-proposal of the European Commission, released October 2011


Human factors § Missing awareness for rail freight transports § Lacking “rail know-how”

§ Organisational and administrative obstacles (cross-border procedures, licensing, competition)

§ Cultural and linguistic barriers during transnational transports

§ Different legislative regulations across Europe


Source: PA/DPA


What is FLAVIA and what it is not?

§ FLAVIA (Freight and Logistics Advancement in Central/South-East Europe – Validation of trade and transport processes, Implementation of improvement actions, Application of co-coordinated structures):

§  is a knowledge and “best practice” transfer project

§  is a project to promote intermodal freight transport

§  will establish co-operative structures in the corridor

§  wants to encourage actors to use intermodal transport

§  will prepare pre-feasibility studies fore new intermodal services along the corridor

§  will discuss the extension of the corridor towards TRACECA and Black Sea region

What is FLAVIA not?: FLAVIA is not a pure infrastructure improvement project. FLAVIA is focused on logistics processes, new and faster transport channels.


The FLAVIA corridor and other South-North projects

FLAVIA corridor

Black Sea/ TRACECA corridor

F Involved countries at FLAVIA

SCANDRIA

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SoNorA

Other South-North projects:


Project Partnership

Science/research

Transport industries/ Associations

TUAS Wildau (LP) - DE University of Pardubice - CZ

Technical University Kosice - SK University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest - RO Upper Austrian University LOGISTIKUM - AT

Institute of Logistics and Warehousing - PL

Ministry of Economic of the Federal State Brandenburg - DE

Regional Advisory and

Information Centre Presov - SK

GVZ Development Cooperation South West Saxony - DE

Pro Rail Alliance - DE EXPRESS-INTERFRACHT - CZ

Interport Servis – SK Hungarian Logistics Association - HU

Associated Project Partners

Administration


Measures of the FLAVIA project to strengthen the rail freight transport (1a)

§  Identifying capacity problems

§  Analysing cross-border problems

Analysis of technical, organisational and administrative bottlenecks

§  Identifying security risks for goods, rolling stock and transhipment

§  Identifying missing terminals and missing rail liner services (via expert interviews)


Approaches of the FLAVIA project to strengthen the rail freight transport (1b)

TEN-T recommendations from a logistics point of view


Establishing cooperative structures § Founding “pro rail alliances” based on the model of the German “Allianz pro Schiene e.V.”

Idea: § Lobby organisation for the railway

§ Promoting and taking the view of the railway in politics, public and industry

In FLAVIA: New pro-rail alliances will be established in Poland, Austria and Romania

Approaches of the FLAVIA project to strengthen the rail freight transport (2)


Developing an intermodal IT-routing tool §  calculating intermodal freight transport connections across Europe § Underlying network consists of road, rail, inland waterway,

short-sea shipping and ferry + 600 terminals § Showing an optimal connection regarding

time, trip length, costs and energy consumption



Promoting “best practice” examples

§ Collection of 10 modal shift examples § Each example presents a shipper which decided to shift transport volumes from truck to train § Overall 7 brochures (1 per country)

§ Marketing tool for the shippers § Dissemination on events, conferences

§ Positive feedback from European Commission § Notable shippers: JYSK, CASTORAMA, KNAUF, SKODA, BLUM, PFEIFER & LANGEN



Promoting “best practice” examples

§ Collection of 10 modal shift examples § Each example presents a shipper which decided to shift transport volumes from truck to train § Overall 7 brochures (1 per country)

§ Marketing tool for the shippers § Dissemination on events, conferences

§ Positive feedback from European Commission § Notable shippers: JYSK, CASTORAMA, KNAUF, SKODA, BLUM, PFEIFER & LANGEN


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