T.2.1. The Action Plan
PP6, Intermodal Transport Cluster
Document Control Sheet
Project number: ADRION504 Project acronym NEWBRAIN Project Title Nodes Enhancing Waterway bridging Adriatic-Ionian Network Start of the project December 2017 Duration 24 months
Related activity: T2.1 – Detailed action plan definition in each node Deliverable name: The Action Plan – PP6, Intermodal Transport Cluster Type of deliverable Report Language English Work Package Title Preparation of investments for the strategy implementation Work Package number T2 Work Package Leader Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation - ITL
Status Final Author (s) KIP Version 1 Due date of deliverable 30th September 2018 Delivery date 26/11/2018
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INDEX 1. SUMMARY ...... 1
2. THE TERRITORIAL, ECONOMIC AND LOGISTIC CONTEXT OF THE NODE ...... 2
3. THE LOGISTICS NODE AND ITS MAIN NEEDS ...... 5
4. THE ROLE OF THE NODE IN LOCAL NETWORKS ...... 2
5. THE ROLE OF THE NODE IN THE TEN-T NETWORK ...... 4
6. BOTTLENECKS ...... 6
7. THE SELECTED PROJECTS ...... 8
7.1 PROJECT 1: “ITT – The Integration, Trade and Transport” ...... 9
7.1.1 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERVENTION ...... 9
7.1.2 INVOLVED SUBJECTS AND STAKEHOLDERS ...... 9
7.1.3 THE MATURITY LEVEL OF THE PROJECT ...... 10
7.1.4 THE TIME FRAME ...... 10
7.1.5 THE INVESTMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT COSTS ...... 10
7.1.6 THE FUNDING SOURCES ...... 10
7.1.7 THE CONSTRAINS ...... 10
7.1.8 THE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS ...... 11
7.2 PROJECT 2: “TRANSPOGOOD – Transport of Goods Platform” ...... 12
7.2.1 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERVENTION ...... 12
7.2.2 INVOLVED SUBJECTS AND STAKEHOLDERS ...... 12
7.2.3 THE MATURITY LEVEL OF THE PROJECT ...... 13
7.2.4 THE TIME FRAME ...... 13
7.2.5 THE INVESTMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT COSTS ...... 13
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7.2.6 THE FUNDING SOURCES ...... 13
7.2.7 THE CONSTRAINS ...... 13
7.2.8 THE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS ...... 13
7.3 PROJECT 3: “MultiAPPRO - Multidisciplinary approach and solutions to development of intermodal transport in region” ...... 15
7.3.1 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERVENTION ...... 15
7.3.2 INVOLVED SUBJECTS AND STAKEHOLDERS ...... 15
7.3.3 THE MATURITY LEVEL OF THE PROJECT ...... 16
7.3.4 THE TIME FRAME ...... 16
7.3.5 THE INVESTMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT COSTS ...... 16
7.3.6 THE FUNDING SOURCES ...... 16
7.3.7 THE CONSTRAINS ...... 16
7.3.8 THE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS ...... 17
8. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SELECTED PROJECTS TO IMPLEMENT THE TEN-T NETWORK ...... 18
9. THE COHERENCE OF THE SELECTED PROJECTS WITH THE ACTION PLAN OF EUSAIR PILLAR II ...... 19
10. CONCLUSIONS ...... 20
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1. SUMMARY
This Action Plan is part of activity T2.1 – Detailed action plan definition in each node of NewBrain project. The objective of the document is to identify the main interventions for the strengthening of the node. The document have several parts: In first part the territorial, economic and logistic context of the node is described, its position, gravitational area and transshipment capacity. Next part is about main needs of the node. In this part are described annual daily traffic volume of the node, last mile connection and limitation of transport network. Forth part is role of the node in local networks. Here is explained position of the node in Intermodal Transport Cluster and in local cluster of logistics nodes. After that, role of the node in TEN-T network is explained. Port of Ploče is part of the comprehensive network, but it is also connected to the core Mediterranean corridor. In sixth part main bottlenecks are explained, and in seventh are described projects that are selected. Three projects had been selected – one of infrastructural nature, and two on non-infrastructural nature. These projects are selected because they help to improve the interconnections between port and other stakeholders. In the last part the contribution of the selected projects to implement the TEN-T network and the coherence of the selected projects with the action plan of EUSAIR PILLAR II are explained.
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2. THE TERRITORIAL, ECONOMIC AND LOGISTIC CONTEXT OF THE NODE
Port of Ploče is one of the main Croatian ports and it is considered as a strategic port by the Croatian Government. The port of Ploče is international commercial port with special economic interest for the Republic of Croatia. As part of maritime links in the Adriatic Sea, it represent the main cargo port in the southern part of Croatia. The port is managed by the Port of Ploče Authority which is a public non-profit legal entity established by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Croatia on 13th February 1997, as a port authority with national significance. The port services are operated by the private companies which act as concessionaires of the PPA. The main operator/concessionaire in the port is stevedoring company Port of Ploče (Luka Ploče d.d.).1 The port is located on the eastern Adriatic coast at mid-distance between Croatian ports Split and Dubrovnik and is the relevant point of the Pan European corridor V - branch VC (Budapest-Osijek-Sarajevo-Ploce). From the port there is road connection to the A1 highway and railway communication to neighbouring Bosnia & Herzegovina. Ploče is the start/endpoint of the aforementioned corridor and due to that the port is the most important maritime gateway for Bosnia & Herzegovina. The port is in the list of 328 TENT Maritime ports published by the European Commission (REF).
1 https://www.ppa.hr/hr/o-ustanovi/
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Source:https://strukturnifondovi.hr
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Port of Ploče has potentially large gravitational area that includes the northeast part of Croatia, part of Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Poland. Bosnia and Herzegovina has the largest turnover in the port, with almost 90% of total cargo turnover. The total annual transshipment capacity of the Port of Ploče is estimated at 4.8 million tonnes of bulk and general cargo while the total storage capacity of the liquid cargo is 600,000 tons. Container traffic capacity is estimated at 60,000 TEU per year. 2
2 http://www.luka-ploce.hr/hr/o-luci/statistika/
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3. THE LOGISTICS NODE AND ITS MAIN NEEDS
As a logistic node, port of Ploče is situated on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea at 43 ° 03'N and 17 ° 26'E and because of its location is of great importance for the economy of the neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose state border is only 25 km from the port of Ploče and also and for partners from Serbia and Montenegro, Hungary and other Central European countries. It is located in a bay that encloses the Pelješac peninsula on the south and southwest sides, thus representing a natural breakwater. Luka Ploče is directly connected with its hinterland in Bosnia and Herzegovina, further to the north-eastern part of Croatia, and with Central Europe the railway line and the roadway (E-73) stretching along the line C (Budapest - Osijek - Sarajevo-Ploče ) Of the Fifth Pan-European Corridor (Venice - Trieste - Budapest - Uzgorod - Lvov). This roadway is also one of the most important branches of the TEM / TER project and in a broader sense connects the European North (Baltic) with the Adriatic and is of vital importance in economic connections and the traffic of people and goods.3 It could be said that for the current cargo flow, Port of Ploče has satisfactory infrastructure. The problem with congestion on the road can be seen only in summer months with the influx of tourist. However, since city of Ploče is not great touristic destination, congestion is not a major problem. Next two pictures show the traffic volume in this area – Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT – first picture) and Annual Summer Daily Traffic (ASDT – second picture) for the year 2015:
3 https://www.ppa.hr/hr/geoprometni-polozaj/
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Source: http://hac.hr/hr/promet-i-sigurnost/promet
The problem with congestion mostly manifested at state border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, since Port of Ploče is major transit port for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Picture below shows main border crossings in that area:
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Source: www.hak.hr Port of Ploče have a connection to a highway A1 that is connecting capital with the south of the country. It is also part of the corridor Vc that stretches from Budapest and includes the road connection from Hungarian border through Osijek, Sarajevo and Mostar to Metković and Ploče (road E65). The road connection is fairly good, and with the building of new entrance terminal, there will be direct access from main port gate to highway.
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The only railway line which goes from port of Ploče is the railway line Ploče – Metković – state border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the mainline, official HŽ Infrastructure designation MG 304, which is 22,7 kilometres long. This a one track line electrified with 25 kV AC system. The line is equipped with automatic block signalling system for both directions which allows the maximum line capacity of 100 trains per day. Maximum speed on the section Ploče – Rogotin (4,5 km) is 80 km/h, while on the rest of the line maximum speed is 110 km/h. Maximum length of trains is limited from 583 metres (Metković) to 718 metres (Ploče freight station). Maximum axle load on the section is 22,5 tonnes. This section is all in practically flat terrain which allows the haulage of very heavy trains. Stretch from Ploče to Metković has block signalling and also radio connection with trains can be used. The biggest limitation of the railway is in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina – part Mostar – Sarajevo. It has steep slopes which makes it a heavy mountain tracks. Steep slopes limit the maximum gross weight of the trains to 1015 tonnes by using two locomotives. With one locomotive the maximum gross weight can only be 580 tonnes. With using three locomotives the maximum gross weight of the trains can be increased up to 1.380 tonnes but this is very rarely used in practice. The section has a maximum capacity around 50 trains per day and it is the biggest limitation in railway transport from and to Port of Ploče. At the moment, there is no congestion on this line. Even at the Mostar – Sarajevo mountain section, where heavy trains have to be split into smaller trains there is no congestion, and the number of trains is still below the maximum capacity per day. It could be said that port of Ploče has a good infrastructure, especially if we took into consideration soon to be new entrance terminal, that will be directly connected with highway network. Railway infrastructure is also in good condition in the port, and the only problem is the connection and cooperation between two countries – Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The main problem that port of Ploče now consider is lack of information exchange. At the moment, there is still paper information exchange between actors. Also, main problem is information exchange from the sea side – between ships and port. Because of that problem, in the last few years, there were few accidents where ships made a collision with the terminal and made a huge damage to the operation of the port. Because of that, main focus of the port should be in informatization of operations and information exchange.
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4. THE ROLE OF THE NODE IN LOCAL NETWORKS
Port of Ploče is a member of a cluster – Intermodal Transport Cluster. Intermodal Transport Cluster (KIP) was founded in 2005 as a Croatian Shortsea Promotion Centre with a goal of promoting and developing of shortsea shipping in the Republic of Croatia. Intermodal Transport Cluster as a non-profit organisation was founded after signing a Cooperation Agreement between Croatian Shortsea Promotion Centre and Pro-Rail Alliance, Association of Ship Brokers and Agents of Croatia, Inland Navigation Development Centre Ltd and Association of Croatian Road Hauliers. Cluster is founded on the initiative of the Croatian Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure and its members are maritime port authorities, operators, Croatian railways, bigger agents and transporters as well as other transport stakeholders. However, on local level, there is no defined local cluster of logistic nodes, but other kind of network. Port authorities are concessionaires on the port area. Port Authorities manage the concession. They have a very good cooperation with all participants in the port logistics chain. This cooperation, however, in most cases, does not include cooperation on a project level. For example, Port can be part of the project, and it can be beneficiary for all concessioners, but Port authority does not represent them. Port of Ploče Authority organisation structure can be seen below4:
4 https://www.ppa.hr/hr/organizacijska-struktura/
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Sector for legal and general affairs is responsible for managing the concessions. There are two types of concessions – one are concessionaires in the port area and the other are concessionaires for activities in the port area. Legal acts that regulate the concession and approval procedures in detail are Maritime Domain and Seaports Act, Regulation on the procedure for granting a concession in the maritime domain and The Concessions Act. Approval for concessions is given by the Port authority at the request of the applicant. If we are looking at wider picture, Port of Ploče authority have a good relationship with many organizations in this part of Europe. This relationship come mostly from participations at EU funded projects as project and associated partner. PPA worked on projects from IPA Adriatic CBC programme, and at the moment is working on a few projects from Interreg Italy-Croatia CBC and Interreg Adrion programme. Through these projects, PPA made connections with many ports, port authorities and other logistic stakeholders in the area.
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5. THE ROLE OF THE NODE IN THE TEN-T NETWORK
TEN-T network is a European Commission policy directed towards the implementation and development of a Europe-wide network of roads, railway lines, inland waterways, maritime shipping routes, ports, airports and rail-road terminals. It consists of two planning layers: 1. The Comprehensive Network: Covering all European regions 2. The Core Network: Most important connections within the Comprehensive Network linking the most important nodes5 Port of Ploče is part of the comprehensive network. Port of Ploče is located along the Adriatic Highway („Jadranska magistrala“), a road that runs from Trieste through Rijeka and Split to the extreme south of this part of Europe. Adriatic Highway is an undivided two-lane road for almost its entire length. However, Port of Ploče has also connection to the A1 motorway. The A1 motorway (Croatian: Autocesta A1) is the longest motorway in Croatia. It connects Zagreb (capital of Croatia) with the south Croatia and as such represents a major north-south transportation corridor in Croatia. The motorway consists of two traffic lanes and an emergency lane in each driving direction separated by a central reservation. A1 is a part of European route E 65 that begins in Malmö, Sweden and ends in Chania, Greece. The road is about 4,400 km (2,700 mi) in length. With connection to a highway A1, Port of Ploče is connected to Rijeka and Zagreb which are part of Mediterranean corridor. The Mediterranean Corridor is the main east-west axis in the TEN-T Network south of the Alps. It runs between the south-western Mediterranean region of Spain and the Ukrainian border with Hungary, following the coastlines of Spain and France and crossing the Alps towards the east through Italy, Slovenia and Croatia and continuing through Hungary up to its eastern border with Ukraine.6
5 https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/infrastructure/about-ten-t_en 6 https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/infrastructure/mediterranean_en
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Source: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/infrastructure/tentec/tentec- portal/map/maps.html?corridor=3&layer=8,9 Port of Ploče is directly connected with its hinterland in Bosnia and Herzegovina, further to the north-eastern part of Croatia, and with Central Europe the railway line and the roadway (E-73) stretching along the line C (Budapest - Osijek - Sarajevo-Ploče ) Of the Fifth Pan- European Corridor (Venice - Trieste - Budapest - Uzgorod - Lvov). In a broader sense connects the European North (Baltic) with the Adriatic and is of vital importance in economic connections and the traffic of people and goods.
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6. BOTTLENECKS
Port of Ploče total annual transhipment capacity is estimated at 4.8 million tonnes of bulk and general cargo, while the total storage capacity for the liquid cargo is 600.000 tons. Container traffic capacity is estimated at 60.000 TEU per year. In 2015 there was transhipped 503.000 tons of general cargo, 1.863.000 tons of bulk cargo and 464.000 tons of liquid cargo. There was also 20.676 TEUs.7
The most container’s origin is Far East, and 95% of containers is in transit to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From this statistical data, it could be seen that Port of Ploče is not using its full capacity. Since Port of Ploče is situated as a main cargo port for the Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as very favourable port for Serbia, Montenegro, part of Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Poland, it is obviously that port have potential, but it is not utilized. The main physical infrastructural bottleneck of the Port of Ploče is lack of direct access to motorway. Also, at the moment, the road that connect the terminal gates and motorway have two intersections with the city road network, which is safety bottleneck. This problem is being solved with the construction of the new Entrance terminal. This terminal will provide direct access from main port gate to motorway. It will also include an overpass above rail tracks so there will be no more intersections. Also, the problem is at the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, where congestion manifested, especially in peak touristic season. This problem cannot be easily solved, but one of the possible solutions is to send as much goods as possible using the railway mode of transport. Other physical bottleneck is lack of designated parking space, as well as unavailability of facilities for drivers. Port of Ploče has enough surface for parking lot, but it is still not exploited. This problem is also in the process of solving. With newly constructed parking lots, facilities for drivers, such as bars, restaurants, rest rooms and showers will be provided. The non-physical bottlenecks of Port of Ploče are the unavailability of the bottleneck management system – to improve capacity of entire system, it is important to have a good strategy for identification and management of bottlenecks. That is why Port of Ploče is involved in a lot of project that deals with this problem. Also, there is no available waste
7 http://www.luka-ploce.hr/hr/o-luci/statistika/statistika-dokumenti/
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management system – ships are big polluters, and ports must have plans for effective means of minimising and avoiding the potential effects of operational and illegal discharges of oil and garbage from ships on the marine environment. It could be said that main non-physical bottleneck is lack of information exchange between all stakeholders. Port of Ploče has a PCS information system for information exchange. However, main operator (concessionaire) – Luka Ploče d.d did not integrate its system into PCS. Other operators are integrated and data exchange is satisfactory. One more bottleneck is of operational nature – railway line Ploče-Sarajevo-Doboj does not have full interoperability. All companies which operate certain parts of the line change their locomotives in Čapljina and Doboj even though they use same types of locomotives. The change of locomotives is imposed by political will which is backed by legislative issues. Changing locomotives increases costs, uses time and therefore additionally limits the lines already very limited capacity. From all of the above, it could be concluded that most of the bottlenecks are not infrastructural in nature, nor they occurred in the port itself. They are in areas where port and port authority does not have any impact and cannot do anything. Port of Ploče is a port which is mostly oriented to area of Bosnia and Hercegovina, and bottlenecks starts there, in other country. There is the problem of information exchange of all involved stakeholders and operators, as well as a gap caused by no exchange of information between sea part and port part of the systems in port areas which have impact on transport of cargo and port positioning in world of modern technological ports.
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7. THE SELECTED PROJECTS
For this Action Plan, three projects were selected. First is ITT project - The integration, trade and transport. The purpose of the ITT project was to increase the port capacity, efficiency and quality of services that strengthen the port of Ploče's position on the transport market. This is part of the long term strategy of the Port of Ploče. The second project is TRANSPOGOOD. The project's expected results contribute to improving the quality, safety and ecological sustainability of maritime and coastal transport in the program area, promoting multimodality and the use of sustainable modes of transport. The third selected project is MultiAPPRO. MultiAPPRO project is based on a Freight Transport Logistic Action Plan (COM(2007) 607). MultiAPPRO combines different approaches to reach most of the goals highlighted by the EC. Therefore, overall objective of the project is development of intermodal transport in Adriatic-Ionian region.
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7.1 PROJECT 1: “ITT – The Integration, Trade and Transport”
7.1.1 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERVENTION
ITT project is part of long term development strategy of the Port of Ploče which does not only plan on traditional transshipment services, but also improves the entire business system which will, due to the high level of globalized production and the need for additional logistic services, adapt port of Ploče to the new business environment. Activities on the development project of the Port of Ploče started in 2005, on the basis of an agreement between the Government of the Republic of Croatia, the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The purpose of the ITT project was to increase the port capacity, efficiency and quality of services that strengthen the port of Ploče's position on the transport market . As such, this project has several components or subprojects: • Container terminal • Bulk cargo terminal • Entrance terminal • Port information system – PCS
7.1.2 INVOLVED SUBJECTS AND STAKEHOLDERS
Port of Ploče authority was the holder of the ITT Project and responsible for part of the capital infrastructure investments in the Port of Ploče, all with the aim of strengthening the competitiveness and market positioning of the Port of Ploče. Terminals are based on the principle of public-private partnership, after which, after the Port of Ploče Authority's investment in infrastructure, the concessionaire Luka Ploče d.d. has the obligation to invest in the transhipment equipment with which the terminals become operative and the obligation to perform the activity.
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7.1.3 THE MATURITY LEVEL OF THE PROJECT
The project was finished in 2016. Infrastructure is constructed, however entrance terminal is still not operating, it should be operative as soon as the license is obtained. Also, at the moment, Port of Ploče authority is working with the Croatian Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure on PCS information System. The idea is to make all ports in Croatia and other stakeholders in the ports use the same PCS information system.
7.1.4 THE TIME FRAME
2005-2016
7.1.5 THE INVESTMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT COSTS
The estimated value of the initial investment in the construction of infrastructure amounted to as much as one billion kunas (135,14 mil EUR). The funds were provided from several sources.
7.1.6 THE FUNDING SOURCES
The funds were provided from several sources. The largest source of funding was the World Bank with loans amounting to EUR 108.8 million, the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the Port of Ploče Authority itself.
7.1.7 THE CONSTRAINS
Port of Ploče is subjected to Urban Plan of Ploče City as well as Urban Plan of Dubrovnik Neretva County. All infrastructural works must be in accordance to the Plans, and must respect Landscape conservation measures and Measures to prevent adverse effects on the environment. Within the port area of the Port of Ploče, it is possible to build port infrastructure and superstructure in accordance with the Maritime Domain and Seaports Act. The port must comply with the prescribed conditions of safety of navigation, protection against pollution and security protection. Ownership of the land: in Croatia, Ports are part of Maritime Domain. As such, this land is Common good and belong to no one. Port Authority is responsible to manage this land in accordance with the Maritime Domain and Seaports Act.
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7.1.8 THE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS
In accordance with Art. 44 and 45 of the Statute of the Port of Ploče Authority, The Director is obliged to submit to the Administrative Council a proposal for the Annual Work and Development Plan of the Port, together with the Financial Plan of the Port of Ploče Authority. This plan, together with the Plan of Ploče City as well as Urban Plan of Dubrovnik Neretva County is the basis for all infrastructure and other investments and works in the Port of Ploče.
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7.2 PROJECT 2: “TRANSPOGOOD – Transport of Goods Platform”
7.2.1 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERVENTION
TRANSPOGOOD project (Transport of Goods Platform) will develop through the capitalization of the main results of the INTERMODADRIA project - an innovative approach to the development of intermodal and multimodal transport in the Adriatic, using coherent and complex tools to enable key stakeholders (shipping, operators etc.) in business. The goal is to achieve the following results: • Innovative ICT tool (TRANSPOGOO platform) to find the best solution for transport services • Profile calculator to track logistic and ecological performance by demonstrating specific benefits in transport and logistics operations • Guidelines and recommendations for transferring stakeholders to the TRANSPOGOOD platform from existing systems The project's expected results contribute to improving the quality, safety and ecological sustainability of maritime and coastal transport in the program area, promoting multimodality and the use of sustainable modes of transport. Port of Ploče Authority will test developed platform in the port environment. In particular, the Port of Ploče Authority as administrative public body controls gate in/out procedures to/out port of Ploče by using the platform and the reporting application based on KPIs. The TRANSPOGOOD platform will be used for monitoring the entrance/exit control of vehicles for the port area, creating a green line for “marked” vehicles, advance management of the available spaces in port terminal, synchronization of operations in the terminal and in loading/unloading ships, information availability to port operators about transport services, pre-booking, load and costs optimisation.
7.2.2 INVOLVED SUBJECTS AND STAKEHOLDERS
TRANSPOGOOD project has 8 projects partners from Italy and Croatia. Those partners are: Intermodal Transport Cluster, Istrian Development Agency Ltd., Port of Ploče Authority, Port of Zadar Authority, Intermodal Logistic Training Consortium-IT, Elevante Trading and
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Consulting srl, Regional Association of Chambers of Commerce of Veneto Region, Special Chamber of Commerce of Chieti Project partners also intends to involve other stakeholders: • Local, regional and national public authorities • Regional development agencies • Enterprises, transport operators including operators of multimodal logistics hubs, infrastructure providers
7.2.3 THE MATURITY LEVEL OF THE PROJECT
At the moment, Project is still in the first phase – collection of the information and data required for the development of the Platform.
7.2.4 THE TIME FRAME
01/2018 – 06/2019 (18 months)
7.2.5 THE INVESTMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT COSTS
Total budget of the project is 1.170.990,00 EUR, and the EU contribution is 85% or 995.341,50 EUR. Port of Ploče Authority has a budget 134.665,00 EUR, out of which: ERDF 114.465,25 EUR and own sources 20.199,75 EUR.
7.2.6 THE FUNDING SOURCES
The TRANSPOGOOD project is funded from the Interreg Italy-Croatia CBC Porgramme.
7.2.7 THE CONSTRAINS
Since TRANSPOGOOD project has no infrastructural investments and works, this project has no particular restrictions and/or limitations to which the project could be subjected.
7.2.8 THE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS
Every year, the Director of the Port of Ploče Authority is obliged to submit to the Administrative Council a proposal for the Financial Plan of the Port of Ploče Authority. This
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plan ensures that money for the implementation is secured and will not be spent on something else.
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7.3 PROJECT 3: “MultiAPPRO - Multidisciplinary approach and solutions to development of intermodal transport in region”
7.3.1 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERVENTION
MultiAPPRO (Multidisciplinary approach and solutions to development of intermodal transport in region) project is based on a Freight Transport Logistic Action Plan (COM(2007) 607) that is proposing a series of measures to promote the freight transport logistics, make intermodal transportation more competitive, create a framework which will allow European ports to attract investment for their modernization, put maritime freight transport on an equal footing with other transport modes and review progress made in development of sustainable mobility. MultiAPPRO combines different approaches to reach most of the goals highlighted by the EC. Therefore, overall objective of the project is development of intermodal transport in Adriatic-Ionian region. Port of Ploče Authority is responsible for the creation of National Working Groups that will be composed by representatives of relevant institutions. National Working Groups will be responsible for solving collected bottlenecks. Also, based on the already established main bottleneck that is lack of the exchange of information, PPA will conduct analysis that should include a view of existing system which are used in ports by terminal operators, by public bodies like port authorities and customs, and by VTS operational departments which controls ships arrival and departure on sea part.
7.3.2 INVOLVED SUBJECTS AND STAKEHOLDERS
MultiAPPRO project has 9 project partners from 6 countries. Partners are from Croatia: Intermodal Transport Cluster, Ploče Port Authority; Greece: National Technical University in Athens, Piraeus Port Authority; Italy: CFLI - Intermodal Logistic Training Consortium, Codognotto Holding; Slovenia: Ministry of Infrastructure; Montenegro: Port of Bar; Albania: Institute of Transport. Project partners also intends to involve other stakeholders: • local public authority • regional public authority
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• national public authority • infrastructure and (public) service provider • higher education and research • education/training centre and school • enterprise, excluding SME • SME • business support organisation • general public
7.3.3 THE MATURITY LEVEL OF THE PROJECT
The project is in the implementation phase, partners are collecting bottlenecks and organizing National Working Groups for their solving. Also, International Transport Network is being organized for solving bottlenecks that cannot be solved on the national level.
7.3.4 THE TIME FRAME
02/2018 – 01/2020 (24 months)
7.3.5 THE INVESTMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT COSTS
Total budget of the project is 1.177.060,00 EUR and the EU contribution (ERDF and IPA II) is 85% or 1.000.501,00 EUR. Port of Ploče Authority has a budget 125.140,00 EUR, out of which: ERDF 106.369,00 EUR and own sources 18.771,00 EUR.
7.3.6 THE FUNDING SOURCES
MultiAPPRO project is funded under the Interreg ADRION transnational programme.
7.3.7 THE CONSTRAINS
MultiAPPRO project is funded under the Interreg ADRION transnational programme. Total budget of the project is 1.177.060,00 EUR and the EU contribution (ERDF and IPA II) is 85% or 1.000.501,00 EUR.
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7.3.8 THE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS
Every year, the Director of the Port of Ploče Authority is obliged to submit to the Administrative Council a proposal for the Financial Plan of the Port of Ploče Authority. This plan ensures that money for the implementation is secured and will not be spent on something else. Also, members of International Transport Network signed Memorandum of Understanding for the duration of the project where they agreed to participate and maintain the Intermodal Transport Network and participate in the related activities for at least the duration of MultiAPPRO project. The activities will be conducted with meetings including discussions, exchange of opinions, bottlenecks, best practices, recommendations and any other useful instrument, such as site visits, to reach the purpose of each meeting.
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8. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SELECTED PROJECTS TO IMPLEMENT THE TEN-T NETWORK
TEN-T Network is a policy directed towards the implementation and development of a Europe-wide network of roads, railway lines, inland waterways, maritime shipping routes, ports, airports and rail-road terminals. The ultimate objective of TEN-T is to close gaps, remove bottlenecks and eliminate technical barriers that exist between the transport networks of EU Member States, strengthening the social, economic and territorial cohesion of the Union and contributing to the creation of a single European transport area.8
Port of Ploče is part of comprehensive network. By finding solutions to bottlenecks and gaps, selected projects are contributing to the main objective of TEN-T policy. ITT project will remove physical bottleneck - the new entrance to terminal will provide a direct access from main port gate to the motorway. TRANSPOGOOD project will help remove gap in communication, as well as help to monitor the entrance/exit of vehicles from the port area. The development of more efficient and sustainable transports is one of the crucial components of the EUROPE 2020 strategy and one of the pillars of both the TEN-T Guidelines and the White Paper on transport. According to them, it becomes of fundamental importance to study the conditions of development, the degree of integration between the Adriatic areas involved in the project and specifically the adoption and the use of ICT to overcome the identified barriers. This advanced management will improve quality, safety and ecological sustainability of maritime and coastal transport in the program area and promote the use of multimodal solutions. MultiAPPRO project also follows the White Paper and Freight Transport Logistic Action Plan guidelines. In White Paper is stated that “information technology tools should be widely deployed to simplify administrative procedures, provide for cargo tracking and tracing, and optimise schedules and traffic flows (e-Freight). Their uptake should be encouraged by requiring their deployment on TEN-T infrastructure and a gradual integration of modal systems.” Within MultiAPPRO and TRANSPOGOOD project, Port of Ploče is working to achieve this goal.
8 https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/infrastructure/about-ten-t_en
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9. THE COHERENCE OF THE SELECTED PROJECTS WITH THE ACTION PLAN OF EUSAIR PILLAR II
The overall objective of Pillar 2 "Connecting the Region" is to improve connectivity within the Region and with the rest of Europe in terms of transport and energy networks. The MultiAPPRO support first specific objective: To strengthen maritime safety and security and develop a competitive regional intermodal port system. MultiAPPRO contribute to the section related to Maritime transport – indicative actions: Clustering port activities/services throughout the region; Developing ports, optimising port interfaces, infrastructures and procedures/operations, presenting sort of clustering not just in the ports but overall transportation. TRANSPOGOOD enhances the general objective of improving the connectivity within the Programme Area and in terms of transport networks, by a precise coordinative action on infrastructures operations of the Adriatic and Ionian transport system. In this regard, the project aims at improving the multimodal transport systems through developing and testing an innovative IT solution (TRANSPOGOOD platform) able to boost the quality, safety, efficiency and environmental sustainability of marine and hinterland transport services in the Programme Area. ITT project support second specific objective: To develop reliable transport networks and intermodal connections with the hinterland, both for freight and passengers. Investments in the entrance terminal will help to better connect Port of Ploče with the highway, and its hinterland. Also, with PCS system, communication between railway operators and Port Authority is better, which means that railway service is more competetive. ITT contribute to action Developing motorways of the sea – by improving road infrastructure linking port with the hinterland and improved infrastructure within a port and ITS solutions.
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10. CONCLUSIONS
Port of Ploče is one of Croatian main ports. It is situated near the mouth of the Neretva river on the Adriatic Sea coast. As of 2010, it ranked as the second largest cargo port in Croatia — after the Port of Rijeka — with a cargo throughput of 4.5 million tonnes, consisting mostly of general cargo and bulk cargo. Based on the analysis it is determined that almost all parameters within road network meet ports requirements. Althought there is still no direct access to motorway, the new entrance terminal is built, and it should be released by the end of this year. For now, flow capacity of cargo traffic meet requirements and can be evaluated as extremely good. With direct access to highway, Port of Ploče will be able to attract more cargo in transit. The only problem that could manifest is state of road network in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Port of Ploče is main transit port for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and existing roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina are mainly two-line roads with non-adequate roads and their maximum capacity. Existing traffic volume in some sections reach maximum road capacity and with increase in traffic flows, a lot of congestion may occur on this line. Planned modernisation will fundamentally improve the main road infrastructure on the Corridor Vc which will facilitate transport of goods and enable shorter travel time from Port of Ploče to the hinterland area. Most of the projects that Port of Ploče is currently working on aims to analyse bottleneck problems. However, as can be seen from above, these botlenecks are mostly outside of the port area. They are in areas where ports and port authorities does not have any impact and cannot do anything. Because of that, Port is trying to work in Intermodal Transport Network, where this problems can be observed on International level. On the other hand, there is problems that can be solved, but they are not infrastructural in nature. Problems for the Port of Ploče are mostly in lack of information exchange between sea part and port part of the systems in port areas which have impact on transport of cargo and port positioning in world of modern technological ports. Also, not all stakeholders have integrated their systems with the PCS information system, and that is a problem for all the other stakeholders. Because of that, Port of Ploče is working on analysis of IT systems with AS-IS and TO-BE situation where technical part which will deal with IT systems and technical requirements for the integration will be described. The Port of Ploče goal is to have all ports in Croatia, as well as all the stakeholders in the port logistic chains connected to one system where all users will send information to the central system. All membes will
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be able to get the necessary information, system information will be easyliy searched and system will send information to the required system users upon request.
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This Action Plan has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The content of the document is the sole responsibility of Intermodal Transport Cluster and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union and/or ADRION programme authorities.
Marijan Cukrov, Director
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