Potential of Örebro Area to Funnel Flows Between the Northernmost BSR Territories and the Scanmed Corridor

Potential of Örebro area to funnel flows between the northernmost BSR territories and the ScanMed Corridor TENTacle, Region Örebro County, WP 5.3, Activity 5.3.3 Final version 2018-04-10 Authors: Lovisa Uhlin, Region Örebro County, Adriana Huelsz Prince, WSP Dag Hersle, WSP, Daniel Pettersson, WSP, Daniel Moback, WSP Lead Partner Content List of figures ........................................................................................................................................ 4 List of tables ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Abbreviations ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................. 7 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 9 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................................ 9 1.1.1 TENTacle .............................................................................................................................. 10 1.1.2 Task 5.3................................................................................................................................ 10 1.2 Purpose ................................................................................................................................ 12 1.3 Scope ................................................................................................................................... 12 1.4 Methodology ........................................................................................................................ 13 1.4.1 Work process ........................................................................................................................ 13 1.4.2 Data collection ..................................................................................................................... 14 1.5 Delimitations ........................................................................................................................ 16 2. Explorative study ....................................................................................................................... 17 2.1 Hub characteristics ............................................................................................................... 17 2.2 Existing transportation connections ...................................................................................... 18 2.2.1 Green Cargo ......................................................................................................................... 18 2.2.2 Scandfibre Logistics .............................................................................................................. 20 2.2.3 HUPAC ................................................................................................................................. 21 2.2.4 Kombiverkehr ....................................................................................................................... 22 2.2.5 Samskip Van Dieren .............................................................................................................. 23 2.2.6 SCT....................................................................................................................................... 26 2.2.7 RealRail................................................................................................................................ 27 2 2.2.8 CargoNet .............................................................................................................................. 28 2.2.9 Green carrier ........................................................................................................................ 29 2.2.10 DB cargo NRE ................................................................................................................... 29 2.3 Region Örebro County .......................................................................................................... 31 2.4 The Örebro Region and northern BSR areas ........................................................................... 37 2.5 Imbalances in freight flows ................................................................................................... 39 2.6 Infrastructure ....................................................................................................................... 40 2.7 Terminal............................................................................................................................... 41 3. Market analysis .......................................................................................................................... 42 3.1 Identified freight flows ......................................................................................................... 43 3.2 Evaluation model .................................................................................................................. 44 3.2.1 Commodity ........................................................................................................................... 44 3.2.2 Transport distance and infrastructure requirements ............................................................... 45 3.2.3 Order flexibility and reliability ............................................................................................... 46 3.2.4 Competition from other modes of transport ........................................................................... 46 3.2.5 Company intention ............................................................................................................... 47 3.2.6 Overall assessment ............................................................................................................... 47 3.2.7 Aggregating the grades for each flow .................................................................................... 48 3.3 Modal shift opportunities ..................................................................................................... 50 3.4 Challenges ............................................................................................................................ 54 3.5 Hub evaluation ..................................................................................................................... 60 4. Discussion and conclusion ......................................................................................................... 62 Appendices ......................................................................................................................................... 65 3 List of figures Figure 1 ScanMed Corridor road and rail............................................................................................. 9 Figure 2 Task 5.3 coverage, the Stockholm Mälar Region towards northern parts of BSR areas .... 11 Figure 3 Work process ....................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 4 Green Cargo; Single wagon load system (green dots) and intermodal terminals (yellow dots) .................................................................................................................................................... 18 Figure 5 Scandfibre network .............................................................................................................. 20 Figure 6 Network HUPAC ................................................................................................................. 21 Figure 7 Network Kombiverkehr ....................................................................................................... 22 Figure 8 Network Samskip ................................................................................................................. 23 Figure 9 Samskip terminals in Norway and Sweden .......................................................................... 26 Figure 10 Network CargoNet ............................................................................................................. 28 Figure 11 The North Rail Express ...................................................................................................... 30 Figure 12 Road and railway network for freight in Sweden .............................................................. 31 Figure 13 Import, export and transit transport volumes within the Örebro region, for different modes of transport* ....................................................................................................................................... 34 Figure 14 Freight transports in the Stockholm Mälar Region ............................................................ 36 Figure 15 Nordic Triangle, Northern Axis and Bothnian Corridor .................................................... 37 Figure 16 Flows from the market study ............................................................................................. 43 Figure 17 The five different "grades" possible for each parameter .................................................... 48 Figure 18 Flows either originating or terminating in Norrland (left) and flows within the Norrland region (right) .....................................................................................................................................

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