Baltnautic Short Sea Shipping

SEA-RIVER SHIPPING

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SHORT SEA TRADE ROUTE GUIDE 2018 sendaal Den Bosch Breda Tilburg BRABANT Eindhoven BELGIUM ANTWERPEN ...... Antwerpen Turnhout ALBER KANAAL Albert Canal T AU RHI E VLAAMS MAAS LIMBURGN length 134 m E N M SAILING BRABANT Hasselt Born G width 12.5 m LIM- ES) draught 3.4 m BURG G IUM Genk He air draught 6.7 m INTO EUROPE Maastricht tonnage 1500/2000 T ANTWERP ...... Antwerpen SE DU OOST - MEU Zeekanaal: ScheldeT tillCharleroi N nt Puurs Sea-river shipping is one of Ruisbroek - Puurs SCHELDE VLAAM the forms of shortsea ANDE R E N transport. Its concept is length 240 m BRABA width 24 m BRUSSEL simple: one vessel, sailing E LGI draught 8.80 m both coastal and inland air draught 44 m waters. Sea-river vessels tonnage* 10000 share certain specifications ...... such as draught, height and Zeekanaal: Ruisbroek length, relating to the till Brussel (Voorhaven) Stockton on Tees navigational restrictions of S Middlesborough rivers and canals. Sea-river length 200 m width 23 m YORKSHIRE vessels do not normally O USE exceed 3,000 dwt, with draught 5.80m ate air draught 33.4 m York draughts limited to 5 m and Hull tonnage* 4500 Leeds Goole bridge clearance to 9 m. HUMBER Huddersfield Doncaster UNITED KINGDOM LINCOLN They generally carry ...... Sheffield port SHIRE conventional and bulk loads, Mansfield Humber till Goole althoughcontainer transport DERBY N is now on the increase. length 110 m nt SHIRE Nottingham Derby Kingʼs Lynn width 24.5 m FORD TRENT draught 5.5 m O VERI JSS E L air draught n.v.t. Leiden ZUID- NETHERLANDS GELDER- ue HOLLAND UTRECHT Apeldoorn tonnage* 3000/4000 Delft Utrecht Amersfoort terdam Gouda Enschede K RIJ Arnhem LE N IJSSELANDL Gorinchem Dordrecht

BERGSE Nijmegen Emmerich MAAS THE NETHERLANDS RHEIN N OORD- ...... Den Bosch Breda N O Tilburg BRABANT Maas Juliana Canal Eindhoven ANTWERPEN Turnhout Antwerpen Oberhausen ALBER Ess KANAAL Duisburg length 135 m 135 m T AU Venlo Krefeld R D sseldor H MAAS VLAAMS LIMBURGI width 12 m 12 m N BRABANT Hasselt Born M nchen S draught 3 m 3 m LIM- Gladbach BURG W G IUM Genk Heerlen air draught 6.8 m 6.15 m K ln Maastricht tonnage* 1000/1500 1000/1500 Aachen

The advantages

The main advantage of sea-river shipping is its unique market range. Sea-river vessels can connect the hinterland with overseas destinations without the need for intermediate transhipment. This results in lower transport costs and a reduced risk of damage caused by additional PORTUGAL handling. Minimum total load for transportation is about a 1,000 tons. However, since separate holds enable sea-river vessels to carry various Douro till Sardouro types of cargo at the same time, there is tremendous flexibility in how length 87 m the total can be made up. There is also the added benefit of floating width 11.4 m stock - reducing the need for storage in the company's silo or draught 3.9 m warehouse. And finally, apart from being cheaper, transportation by air draught 7.5 m water is also environmentally friendly. tonnage* 2000/2500 GÄVLE Karlstad BORG Gävle ÖSTER RG Falun Mariestad UPPSALA STOCK L Avesta HOLM SKARA Uppsala dvika BORG VÄST Sala Vänersborg SWEDEN MANLAND SWEDEN Uddevalla ...... D Västerås Sto...... ckholm GÖTEBORG & BOHUS Borås EBRO Jönköp Eskilstuna Mälären Lake Trollhättan Canal arlskoga

Göteborg Ä LV S Örebro (Väsateras, Södertälje, JÖNKLAGAN Ö Nyköping ERAK B O R G length 88 m tad Köping) width 13.2 m Norrköping B A Varberg HALLAND K ÖSTERGÖTTLAND KATTE draught 5.4 m length 135 m Halmstad Linköping width 19.6 m air draught 27 m SKARA Visby tonnage* 3000/4000 draught 7.5 m air draught 41 m tonnage* 9000

Viana do Castelo MINHO

Braga

P voa de Varzim Guimar es Matosinhos Porto (Leixoes) Vila Real Villa Nova de Gaia D O URO

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Ovar

Aveiro Viseu

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M nster BERGSE Nijmegen Emmerich M D AAS RHEIN N OORD- daal Den Bosch Breda N O RDRHEIN - Tilburg Hamm BRABANT Eindhoven Viana do Castelo ANTWERPEN MINHO Turnhout Dortmund Antwerpen Oberhausen Bochum A Venlo Essen LB KA E R A Duisburg NA T A U Hagen L Krefeld RH D sseldorf Braga VLAAMS MAAS LIMBURGI N N M nchen Wuppertal BRABANT Hasselt Born Gladbach Solingen ...... LIM- S) P voa de Varzim Guimar es BURG Genk Heerlen W E STF A LEN G IUM K ln Maastricht Matosinhos Aachen

Li ge Bonn Porto (Leixoes) RHEIN GERMANY E Vila Real MEUS Villa Nova de Gaia Charleroi Namur D O URO L I È G E GER M ANY AMUR D O URO Koblenz Upper Central Lower Koblenz RHEI N L AND-PF A L Z MEUSE Bastogne RHEIN L AND-P F A L Z L Frankfurt L Frankfurt Rhine SE Wiesbaden am Main Rhine Rhine Wiesbaden am Main L UXEMBO URG MO OSE M

Ovar Mainz LUXEMBOURG Mainz

RHEIN Darmstadt RHEIN Darmstadt length 110 m 110 m 135 m NNES Arlon Trier Trier Aveiro Viseu AISNE LUXEMBOURG Gernsheim G Gernsheim Worms width 11.4 m 14 m 22.4 m Worms S

Thionville A S A A Kaiserslautern P A G NE- R A Kaiserslautern Mannheim

R Mannheim C L d i h f draught 2.5 m 2.5 m 3.5 m Ludwigshafen SAARLAND Heidelberg B EIR A Saarbr cken Germersheim air draught 6.8 m 8.3 m 9.1 m

N E Karlsruhe tonnage* 1000/1500 1000/1500 2000/4000 A L SACE Mikkeli

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a Lappeenranta FINLAND Vyborg A Karhula Saima Canal

length 82 m width 11.8 m draught 4.3 m F FINLAND St. Pe air draught 24.5 m tonnage* 2000/2500

Dunkerque BELG Calais Roubaix Brusse Boulogne Lille (Bruxel Béthune Douai ...... HANNE L PAS-DE-CALAIS Arras Valencie Dieppe FRANCE

Amiens St. Quenti Le Havre PICARDI E Rouen Compiègne Seine till Gennevilliers (Paris) R en SEIN CHA E length 120 m O R M ANDI E Paris MARNE width 15.5 m Versailles AR ILE-DE-FRANCE draught 3.5 m air draught 8.7 m T tonnage* 1500/2000

RHÔNE rmont- Annecy rand Lyon

St. Etienne

RRH H Ô N E - NE E R G N E Ô ...... Grenoble I A LPES Valence FRANCE RhôneSaône PROVENCE -ALPE S

Avignon Nimes Mon length 135 m 135 m C Ô TE D ʼ A Z U R Montpellier Aix en Provence width 11.4 m 11.4 m QUEDOC draught 3 m 3 m Sète Marseille GOL F E Toulon air draught 6.2 m 5.1 m tonnage* 1000/1500 1000/1500

* dependent of the water-level

SEA-RIVER SHIPPING IN EUROPE

The European sea-river fleet (Eastern Europe not included) comprises about 400 vessels at an average deadweight capacity of 2,000 dwt. The Dutch fleet, currently about 80 vessels, issteadily growing. GEOGRAPHIC REACH

This brochure contains an overview of sea-river shipping options within Europe. Although there are other shipping options apart from the canals and rivers indicated, these are only navigable by a small number of special sea-river vessels.

The Humber in England and the Trollhattan canal in Sweden are also navigable, either full- length or in part, by conventional coaster. So is the Nene river and a few ports close to its estuary. Although Russia has many rivers allowing navigation by sea-river vessels, this is at present restricted to vessels under the Russian flag.

With its abundance of waterways, our country the Netherlands has a number of rivers and canals such as the Rhine, Maas and IJssel rivers and the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal, all of which are accessible to sea-river vessels.

However, the existence of navigable waterways is not enough in itself: loading and unloading terminals are also required. For this reason, the development of so-called ROCs (Dutch for Regional Transhipment Centres) is important. Already there are ROCs in Kampen, Heijen, Stein and Oss, mainly for container loading and unloading purposes, but also for handling sea-river vessels with conventional loads. TYPE OF LOAD

Sea-river vessels carry mainly bulk loads such as coal, grain, raw building materials and fertilizer.

They also carry neo-bulk loads such as steel, steel products, sawn timber and paper, and are used for container transportation.

The two major users of sea-river shipping are the German steel industry, which is concentrated in the Ruhr area, and the Swedish and Finnish timber industries.

These regions of origin are determining the predominant transport pattern in this market. Steel products flow downstream on the Rhine, while Scandinavian timber and paper products go upstream, both destined for all parts of Europe.

Transportation of bulk products such as grain and ore, in the form of return loads from the Ruhr area and to Scan-dinavia, is also considerable. THE FUTURE

Although sea-river transport has been a forgotten market segment for some time, we have recently been witnessing renewed and considerable investment in this area, with various (Dutch) shipping companies placing orders for new sea-river ships. New technology has resulted in increased bridge clearance and lower draught developments, which have made a growing number of European inland destinations more easily accessible. Trends in shipbuilding often lead to bigger vessels, but this would be counter- productive for this type of coastal shipping as increased size would almost certainly result in a decrease in shipping reach.

The new generation of sea-river vessels is also smaller by tonnage. An example of a new type of sea-river vessel is printed on the back, showing a vessel measuring 80 metres in length, 6.3 metres in height and 1,700 dwt in tonnage, all at just 3.4 metres draught. Moreover, its box-shaped hold makes it suitable for all types of load, including containers.