INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Northern Maritime Corridor – The Motorway of the Northern Seas NMC Achievements Februar 2006 Olav Hauge, Project

INTERREG IIIBNorth SeaNorthern Periphery

Northern Maritime Corridor –

The Motorway of the Northern Seas

NMC Achievements Februar 2006

Olav Hauge, Project Manager for NMC


NMC Partners in the North Sea Region and the Northern Periphery

Region


Vision

The Northern Maritime Corridor:

• a means of efficient, safe and sustainable transportation,

• connecting coastal areas and

• enhancing regional development in the North Sea Region and the Northern Periphery Region


NMC Project Objective and Activities

Core approach:• An arena for

networking• Key actors from

both private and public sector

• Region – to – region cooperation

Main objective:

To establish new/improved shortsea shipping services to shift cargo from road to sea


Relations between Strands

Strand 2Promotion of SSS and

Develop New Services in the Corridor

Strand 3Seafood Transport

and Logistics

Strand 4Maritime Transport in the Petroleum

Sector

Strand 5Development of a Sustainable NMC


Main Achievements

• Short Sea Shipping initiatives• Network with Russian enties in

the petroleum sector• Maritime safety initiatives


Short Sea Shipping Initiatives


Petroleum Sector Network

• North Sea cross border scenarios

• Barents Sea scenarios

• Arena for both private and public sectors

Maritime link to

Barents region

Improved Cross-Border

Connections


Maritime Safety• NMC conference in

Kirkenes facilitated standing committees between Russia and Norway

• Initiated the Intereg IIIB projects ”Safety at Sea” in the North Sea and Northern Periphery regions

• Recommendations on risk management strategies


Project Organisational Arrangement

ORGANISATIONAL SETUP

Regional Activities Trans-national Activities

EU Commission

North Sea Secretariat

Lead Partner Rogaland

Internat. Man. Group (IMG)

Regional Partner 1

Regional Partner 2

Regional Partner 3

Working Group

Strand 2

Working Group

Strand 3

Working Group

Strand 4

Working Group

Strand 5

Figure 1 Organisational Set-up for the NMC


Transnational Organisational Arrangement

Figure 1 Organisational Set-up for the NMC

Lead Partner North SeaRogaland County

Lead Partner Northtern Periphery

Exec. Council for Northern Norway

Strand Manager NSStrand Manager NP

Working GroupRegional Partners

North SeaRegional Partners

Northern Periphery


Regional Maritime Clusters

Sample Organisational Chart

Regional Lead Partner

Regional Maritime Cluster

Board for the Regional maritime

Cluster

Regional Project Manager

Working Group No.

1

Working Group No. 2

Working Group No. 3

Working Group No.

4


Important Organisational Elements

• Common and shared project management• Common meetings, conferences etc.• Common newsletter, fact sheets etc.• Both regional project managers and

transnational strand managers• Transnational working groups with a duo

of strand managers from both regions• Regional maritime clusters


Challenges and experiences

• A continuous sea corridor as the common focal point, one project at the outset

• Project descriptions very similar, identical strands, main activities and time schedule

• Cooperation defined at the outset• A large geographical area• A large and comprehensive project • Regional maritime clusters with both

private and public sector participants• Region-to-region and business-to-business

arrangements



• Very broad network• Cooperation with permanent bodies, like

Shortsea Promotion Centres• Communication with the EU

Commission, MoS Unit, the NMC project has been noted

• In Norway: An inter-ministerial reference group established



• Reasonable balance between North Sea and Northern Periphery, mutuality and synergies

• Combined a bottom-up and top-down approach

• Not a consensus project – cooperation and competition on the same arena


Statement from the external evaluator

• “The NMC Project could at the outset be regarded as a high risk project with regard to its ability to result in tangible impacts. However, the sum of impacts achieved by the NMC project at regional and transnational level seems in such perspective quite impressive.”


NMC in a global and European context


NMC in a global and European context


NMC in a Global and European Context


NMC in a Global and European Transportation

Network


NMC as a Motorway of

the Sea


Sailing Routes Russia - Continent(report from CNIIMF)


Work Packages in NMC II

Work Package C:

Market Communi-cation and New SSS Services

Work Package B:

NMC as a MoS within the TEN-T Network

Work Package A: Motorway oif the Northern Seas

Work Package D:

Techno-logical

Develop-ment and ICT Tools

Work Package E:

Polycentric Port

Scenarios and

Framework Conditions

Work Package F:

Petroleum Sector

Transport


Challenges in the NMC II

• Maintain the broad network with limited resources

• Develop a structured cooperation with similar projects in order to create synergy effects, also with projects in other programme regions

• Cooperation with national level authorities


Summing up the NMC project

• Well defined common focal point and aims

• Large and comprehensive project• Common and shared project

management• Competition and cooperation on

the same arena – not a consensun project


The Motorway of the Northern Seas

Thank you for your attention!

www.northernmaritimecorridor.no

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INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Northern Maritime Corridor – The Motorway of the Northern Seas NMC Achievements Februar 2006 Olav Hauge, Project