Lightening the Load Marco Polo Leads the Way

LIGHTENING THE LOAD MARCO POLO LEADS THE WAY

LIGHTENING THE LOAD - MARCO POLO LEADS THE WAY

CONTENTS

> Introduction – Marco Polo makes a difference 2 > The hardest part is to convince clients –Reefer Express 4 > Wind power takes the train – ENERCON Tri-Modal 5 > Big clients are more demanding – Via Danube 6 > Less paperwork = less cost – Short Sea XML 7 > More ferry space for bigger trucks – CGTK 8 > Bottled water by the trainload – Sirius 1 9 > Bringing Tangiers closer – Marocco Seaways 10 > Marco Polo was indispensable – T-REX 11 > Rail cuts time and raises quality – L.O.G.I.S.T.I.C. 12 > A freight-only weekend ferry – Gulf Stream 13

> Fixed link delivers the goods – Scandinavian Shuttle 14 European Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation > e-Learning fills skills gap – EWITA 15 Lightening the load - Marco Polo leads the way Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities > A one-stop shop for north-south freight – ItaloExpress 16 2009 - 24 pp. - 21 cm x 29.71 cm ISBN 978-92-9202-062-0 > Baltic shuttle wins back business – BaSS 17 DOI 10.2826/14295 Photos: Cover © EACI; page 2 © EC, © Dan Barnes/ iStockphoto.com; page 3 © Edward Todd/ > Innovative containers ease modal shift – FGI System 18 iStockphoto.com, © Digital Vision/Getty images; page 7 © Rafael Ramirez Lee/iStoclphoto.com; page 10 © Darren Deans/iStockphoto.com; > All aboard for inter-modal learning – GLAD 19 page 14 © DG REGIO/EC; page 15 © Johannes Norpoth/iStockphoto.com; > A mark of quality – The WestMed Bridge 20 page 21 © Duisport/Rheinhold The maps in this brochure are for illustrative purposes only. > Definitely worth the effort – DZRS 21 > EU support enhances credibility – Ro-Ro Past France 22 > Green customers want modal shift – Euro Reefer Rail Net 23 > Upriver by boat and truck – ETS Elbe 24

Find out more about Marco Polo online at http://ec.europa.eu/marcopolo This brochure is published by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation of the European Commission. © European Communities, 2009 Design and layout: Tipik s.a./Chili con carne The responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors. It does not necessarily represent the opinion of the European Community. Statements made by Marco Polo project coordinators in this brochure reflect their own views and not necessarily those of the EACI or the European Commission. The EACI is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein. The information contained is given for information purposes only and does not legally bind any of the parties involved. MARCO POLO MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Efficient transport is the lifeblood of the European The projects described in the following pages economy. We take fast and cheap delivery from come from all regions of Europe. New rail and factory to consumer across Europe for granted. inland waterway projects criss-cross the EU Road is often the preferred transport mode, from north to south and east to west. Motorways but rising road traffic volumes mean more of the sea provide a way round natural land congestion, more pollution and higher costs. barriers and congested road corridors, offering capacity along Europe’s Atlantic, Mediterranean The Marco Polo programme of the European and Baltic seaboards. Union tackles these issues head-on. It helps reduce traffic congestion on Europe’s crowded roads and promotes environment-friendly MAKING THE CASE means of transport. Its strategy is simple: shift as much freight traffic as possible from roads Many projects recognise that even if rail, short- to other modes of transport. While roads are sea shipping and inland waterways offer a overused, rail, sea and inland waterways often greener alternative and can compete with trucks have spare capacity. They also pollute less. on commercial terms, the case for switching A Marco Polo grant can make the difference still needs to be made. The business-as-usual between launching a modal-shift project or not. mentality among operators is hard to break. Some forwarders accustomed to road transport Marco Polo aims at improving the environmental fear that change might mean unnecessary risk. performance of European freight transport, Dynamic marketing, quality service and close by freeing the roads of an annual volume of customer care are shown to be vital tools for 20 billion tonne-kilometres1 of freight, the Marco Polo projects. ROAD IS OFTEN equivalent of more than 700 000 trucks a year THE PREFERRED travelling between Paris and Berlin. This Participants also enlist ingenuity and imagina- T R A N S P O R T M O D E , tion to help their projects succeed. A number B U T R I S I N G R O A D translates into substantial environmental, use innovative technologies to gain a competi- T R A F F I C V O L U M E S societal and economic benefits. MEAN MORE tive edge, or enhance service quality. These C O N G E S T I O N , include common IT management systems, GPS USERS TELL THEIR STORIES M O R E P O L L U T I O N for cargo track-and-trace, and new-design AND HIGHER COSTS. containers to facilitate intermodal handling. This brochure contains a representative sample from the wide spectrum of Marco Some utilise big European infrastructure Polo projects. The information comes from the projects, such as the Oeresund tunnel and participants themselves. A manager involved bridge between Denmark and Sweden, to in each project tells in his or her own words offer door-to-door international transport of the benefits to be derived from Marco Polo. services. Others have turned the Sunday ban Many highlight the difficulties, expected and on heavy trucks in several EU countries to their 1. ‘tonne-kilometre’ means the transport of a tonne of freight, unexpected, which they encountered – and advantage by providing weekend freight or its volumetric equivalent, over a distance of one kilometre. generally overcame. services by rail or sea.

PAGE A MARCO POLO GRANT CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAUNCHING A MODAL-SHIFT PROJECT OR NOT

As a number of participants readily admit, qualify for grants. And when it comes to road they take a commercial risk in launching their traffic, the cleanest journey is the one that did projects. Even if the Marco Polo programme not take place. This is why Marco Polo actively offers funding only in the start-up period, they promotes traffic avoidance, awarding grants say it helps in two ways. On the one hand, it to road hauliers and manufacturers who de- provides an EU stamp of approval for their project vise new practices (like avoiding empty runs or and enhances their green credentials. On the using more efficient packaging) to reduce the other hand, many of the projects described here need for road transport in the first place. would not have got under way, or would have had to be scaled-down, without the benefit of a START-UP FUNDING Marco Polo grant. The grants provide financial support in the MARCO POLO IS YOUR PROGRAMME crucial start-up phase of a modal-shift project before it pays its way to viability. Grants cover Marco Polo is user-driven. If your company has periods of two to five years. Projects should a project to transfer freight from road to rail or short-sea shipping routes or inland waterways, Marco Polo is managed by the Executive Agency you may qualify for a Marco Polo grant. Your for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI) on behalf project has to involve a cross-border route. The of the European Commission’s Directorate-General grant is performance-related. In some cases, for Energy and Transport. you only get the full amount if you meet your declared target for the amount of freight shifted be commercially viable once the period of the from the road to greener transport modes. Marco Polo funding is over. Successful par- € 6 0 M I L L I O N ticipation in a Marco Polo project enhances a I N G R A N T S A V A I L A B L E You do not have to shift all your traffic off the company’s green credentials. So far more than P E R Y E A R U N T I L 2 0 1 3 road. Inter-modal projects, combining road, 400 companies have benefited from funding. rail and waterborne transport, are eligible. The concept of transport as a door-to-door service The current programme runs until 2013, with an is important. Feeder traffic and final distribu- annual budget for grants of about €60 million. tion can be handled by road, but road journeys It publishes calls for proposal from potential should be kept as short as possible. grant applicants at the beginning of each year on its website (http://ec.europa.eu/marcopolo). In addition to direct modal-shift projects, Marco Bidders who feel they meet the conditions can Polo also funds projects that provide supporting apply for a grant. services, including management systems, integrated cargo control or common IT platforms Responding to its users, Marco Polo has already to facilitate inter-operability between partners simplified procedures and lowered thresholds and between modes. Training projects relat- for obtaining a grant. These are part of an ongo- ed to inter-modal transport and logistics also ing series of market-linked enhancements.

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Stuttgart Orléans Strasbourg Nantes SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA BAY München Linz Sankt Pölten Wien Dijon Bratislava poitier Salzburg Eisenstadt FRANCE Bessançon Bregenz OF Worgl ÖSTERREICH Chişinău Bern Innsbruck Budapest Limoges SUISSE Graz ModalMAGYARORSZÁG shift BISCAY Klagenfurt Clermont-Ferrand Lyon Santiago de Compostela Bordeaux Aosta-Aoste Trento SLOVENIJA ROMÂNIA Oviedo Ljubjana Milano Zagreb Santander Trieste Torino Padova Bilbao Casale Venezia HRVATSKA San Sebastián

Vitoria-Gasteiz Toulouse Genova BOSNA I Beograd SAKARTVELO Bologna Bucureşti Porto Pamplona-Iruña Montpellier BLACK SEA Logroño Monaco SRBIJA Valladolid HERCEGOVINA Marseille Firenze A ANDORRA GULF Sarajevo HAÏASTAN Coimbra Ancona D Zaragora Yerevan OF LIONS Perugia R PORTUGAL ESPAÑA I ITALIA A Soﬁja BÂLGARIJA Madrid CORSE T Lisboa Barcelona L’Aquilla IRAN Ajaccio I Toledo Roma C Skopje

Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina T H E H A R D E S T PAMytulini R T ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι Alger IS TO CONVINCEAthinai CLIENTS A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS ReeferMALTA ExpressS E A LIBNAN Irakleion Beyrouth Dimashq

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A big benefit of Europe’s frontier-free and chemicals. The trans-shipment facility Project name: single market is the fast delivery of often in Bilbao has been extended and improved Reefer Express perishable products across the conti- to handle the more refrigerated cargo. nent from producer to consumer. Reefer Size of Marco Polo grant: Geoffrey Smith, managing-director of €1 714 711 Express sets out to show that sea routes can compete for this transport market. It MacAndrews, the lead company, says Duration of project grant: is a short-sea container service between “Marco Polo funding has allowed July 2007 to July 2010 the ports of Bilbao in northern Spain, MacAndrews to enter a market previously Lead partner: Sheerness in England and Rotterdam dominated by trucks and to prove the sea- MacAndrews & Company, London (UK) in the Netherlands. Among its principal borne product works as a viable alterna- Other partner: clients are fruit and vegetable producers tive to trucking without outside funding”. ABRA Terminales Maritima SA (Spain) in southern Spain who Volume of goods shifted off the road: supply the British and “Marco Polo funding has allowed 857m tonne-kilometres Dutch retail markets. (three-year estimate) Before the service was MacAndrews to enter a market previously Estimated environmental benefit: established, this traf- dominated by trucks and to prove the sea- €22m (over three years) fic all went overland by borne product works as a viable alternative truck across the Pyr- Contact: to trucking without outside funding” [email protected] enees and France to the Netherlands and the UK G E O F F R E Y S M I T H , (via the Calais-Dover MANAGING-DIRECTOR OF MACANDREWS ferry service in the latter case). “We have worked with haulage and Refrigerated produce from southern Spain rail suppliers in Spain to improve door- is transported to Bilbao where it is trans- to-door transit times by coordinating shipped into refrigerated containers and delivery schedules and vessel de- loaded onto a vessel bound for Sheer- partures. Respecting the integrity of ness and Rotterdam. The service, operat- schedules is paramount, especially for ing on a fixed-day weekly schedule, was just-in-time cargo deliveries.” Although launched in July 2007 with one vessel. customer support is growing and ton- A second connection was added 12 months nages are rising, Smith says “Our biggest later. General cargo, including tyres, tiles, obstacle was, and remains, to convince foodstuffs, sanitary products, electronics traditional users of overland trucks that and domestic appliances, is also carried. a seaborne route can provide a real The main cargo on southbound journeys alternative – commercially, economically, consists of paper, beer, foodstuffs, metals and environmentally”.

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Stuttgart Orléans Strasbourg Nantes SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA BAY München Linz Sankt Pölten Wien Bratislava Dijon poitier Salzburg Eisenstadt FRANCE Bessançon Bregenz OF Worgl ÖSTERREICH Chişinău Bern Innsbruck Budapest Limoges SUISSE Graz MAGYARORSZÁG

Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES W I N D P O W E R TA K E S Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι THE TRAIN Alger Athinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion ENERCON Tri-Modal Beyrouth Dimashq

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Marco Polo can make things happen. As a high-technology company in the field That at least is the experience of German of renewable energy, ENERCON feels Project name: wind turbine manufacturer, ENERCON. it is natural that it should take a lead in ENERCON Tri-Modal “As soon as it was announced that we promoting sustainable transport, but the Size of Marco Polo grant: had received Marco Polo funding, this project is also being driven by practicali- €1 268 577 had a positive effect on our partners,” ties. “We, like others,” Vogt notes, “are Duration of project grant: says Ursula Vogt, Assistant to ENERCON’s encountering increasing resistance from July 2009 to June 2012 Managing Director. “In Portugal, for local, regional and national authorities to example, the local government began moving exceptional loads by road. This Lead partner: pushing the construction of a new railway translates into extended lead times and ENERCON, Aurich (Germany) line to our Portuguese production site. increased administrative costs.” Other partner: Other partners and governments are also ENEOP 3 Desenvolvimento more aware of our activities, and there However, ENERCON is confident that de Projecto Industrial (Portugal) has been positive feedback from all sides its modal shift is justified on its merits. Volume of goods shifted off the road: to our objective of shifting freight from “European energy policy and the cur- 663m m tonne-kilometres road to rail and ship.” rent discussion of escape routes from the (three-year estimate) latest climate change scenarios can only Estimated environmental benefit: The project involves using rail and ship increase the trend toward more modal 13.6m (over three years) to move components and parts from shift, so we are confident of long-term Contact: Germany to Viana do Castelo in Portugal, economic benefits,” Vogt concludes. [email protected] as well as to installation sites throughout Europe. “European energy policy and the current Smaller parts go in con- discussion of escape routes from the latest tainers. The novelty is that ENERCON is using climate change scenarios can only increase rail for over-size ship- the trend toward more modal shift, so we are ments, i.e. rotor blades, confident of long-term economic benefits” the electrical equipment modules and tower sec- U R S U L A V O G T , tions of wind turbines. ASSISTANT TO THE MANAGING DIRECTOR “Some people have OF ENERCON had reservations about using rail for this, but participating in Marco Polo means it is taken more seri- ously. It adds prestige to our plans and helps us convince our partners to coop- erate with us.”

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina BIG CLIENTS ARE MORE ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι Alger Athinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis DEMANDING Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion Via DanubeBeyrouth Dimashq

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“We are successfully managing a riv- ing. A big advantage of our service is Project name: er-borne freight service that is trusted its regularity. This way, our clients are Via Danube by our clients and is seen as a quality always sure of an exact departure date alternative to road transport throughout and a very good estimate of when the Size of Marco Polo grant: €1 033 655 Europe”. This is how Dimitar Ivanov, who cargo will arrive at its destination.” manages the project at Intershipping of Duration of project grant: Bulgaria, described Via Danube after its “But a regular service means fixed costs, June 2008 to May 2011 first year of operation. The project aims to requiring vessels to sail fully-laden. This Lead partner: upgrade the Danube as a freight corridor has been a challenge for us, particularly Intershipping Ltd, Burgas (Bulgaria) through the heart of Europe, stretching as a result of the global economic down- Other partner: from northern France via Intershipping Romania SRL (Romania) Germany to the Black “We are successfully managing a river-borne Volume of goods shifted off the road: Sea. It seeks to make freight service that is trusted by our clients 518m tonne-kilometres current road routes from (three-year estimate) Maubeuge (France) and and is seen as a quality alternative to road Estimated environmental benefit: Waghäusel (Germany) transport throughout Europe” €13.4m (over three years) to Bulgaria and Romania Contact: into inter-modal ones via D I M I T A R I V A N O V , [email protected] the Danube. INTERSHIPPING OF BULGARIA

Freight travels by road from Maubeuge turn since 2008 and the associated fall in and Waghäusel to Passau in Bavaria and consumer demand.” Ivanov concludes: is transferred to river barges bound for “We coped with this and many other Vidin in Bulgaria where it is offloaded to problems; we came out on top. And we continue by road to Sofia and Bucharest. set guidelines for the successful manage- For some return journeys the departure ment of the project for the following two port has been changed to Russe which years.” is more convenient for the Romanian car plants which have started using the Via Danube service, explains Ivanov.

The original Intershipping river fleet of four roll-on/roll-off vessels has increased with the addition of four river-going barges powered by two push-boat units. “We are working with bigger clients”, says Ivanov, “and this is more demand-

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L E S S PA P E R W O R K = LESS COST Short Sea XML

Arild Haraldsen, CEO of the NorStella Foun- cally along the short-sea logistics chain dation, explains the benefits of improved in a single, shared format. Kristiansand Project name: data exchange for short-sea shipping. in Norway was the first European port to Short Sea XML implement Short Sea XML. Size of Marco Polo grant: XML STANDS FOR EXTENSIBLE €900 000 MARKUP LANGUAGE IN COMPUTER … AND THE BENEFITS? PROGRAMMING. WHAT IS THE LINK Duration of project grant: WITH SHORT-SEA SHIPPING? The benefits to us were that the project September 2006 to September 2008 would not have been possible without Marco Lead partner: Administrative paperwork accounts for Polo funding. The benefits were more than NorStella Foundation, Oslo (Norway) 20-30% of the cost of short-sea shipping, financial, however. Through the exposure Other partners: so developing e-solutions is an obvious we obtained, we have become better known 27 from eight countries – way to bring down the costs. But it is not just and built up ‘Short Sea XML’ as a brand. We shipping companies and shippers, about cost savings. It is a means to an end have also found synergies we might not short-sea shipping promotion bodies, – moving goods from road to sea by mak- otherwise have found with EU-funded port authorities, standardisation ing short-sea shipping more competitive. research programmes and other Marco Polo bodies, technology companies projects promoting intermodality. Contact: WHO LED THE PROJECT? [email protected] WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THE MARCO The Short Sea XML project was spear- POLO PROGRAMME TO OTHERS? headed by NorStella, a non-profit foundation for e-business and trade procedures. Definitely; primarily because it takes a NorStella is the official Norwegian contact practical approach and (in the case of point for all international standardisation projects like Short Sea XML) has a two- activities in the field of electronic business year duration: this means that you have and trade facilitation. Norway is, of course, to obtain practical results in a short time- not a member of the EU, but we were able frame. This makes it complementary to to take advantage of being from one of the the research-oriented projects. neighbouring countries which has special relations with the EU. We are one of sever- “We have also found synergies al countries which can benefit from Marco we might not otherwise have Polo funding in this way. found with EU-funded research WHAT WERE THE RESULTS… programmes and other Marco Polo projects promoting intermodality” By the time the project was over, some

40 companies were already using XML A R I L D H A R A L D S E N , – for exchanging messages electroni- CEO NORSTELLA FOUNDATION

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Linköping E FOR BIGGER TRUCKS A K C R S G E R S K A Göteborg Jönköping Visby Edinburgh C Ventspils I NORTH CGTK I Moskva Växjö Rīga LATVIJA Belfast T Halmstd Kalmar SEA L new route T Karlskrona old route IRELAND DANMARK A Telšiai Šiauliai København B Panevėžys Dublin Malmö Klaipėda LIETUVA Utena This project provides a full freight serv- Among the problems encountered during N ÉIRE Baile Átha Cliath Tauragė Project name: Kaunas ice over the shortest sea crossing be- the project, Lassfolk lists a paper work- ROSSIJSKA Vilnius UNITED CGTK – Consolidation of Goods Marijampolė tween Finland and Sweden from Vaasa ers’ strike which reduced cargo volumes, A Kiel FEDERACIJ Alytus Rostock TransportGdańsk over the Kvarken Straits toMinsk Umea. Before the service started in and rising fuel prices. KINGDOM 2004, large trucks travelling between the CELTIC SEA Hamburg Schwerin Size of Marco Polo grantOlsztyn: L BELARUStwo countries often took the overland Lassfolk says the paperwork and report- Cardiﬀ Bremen €600 000 Szczecin Białystok Amsterdam Bydgoszcz route round the northern end of the Gulf ing requirements involved in projects London Duration of project grant: T like his can on occasion be detailed and NEDERLAND Hannover Berlin of Bothnia. This involved a distance of Potsdam January 2004 to December 2006 Poznań time-consuming. But he adds: “The policy Magdeburg POLSKA warszawa 820 kilometres, compared with 90 kilome- Calais BELGIË ZielonaLead Góra partner: and objectives behind the Marco Polo A tres and a crossing time of four hours for C H A N N E L Bruxelles DEUTSCHLAND Łódż L I S H Brussel RG Line, Vaasa (Finland) E N G Lille Düsseldorf the Kvarken Straits sea link. programme are very good”. BELGIQUE Lublin Erfurt Dresden Namur WrocławOther partner: Kyïv Amiens Kielce Rouen UmeaOpole Hamn Ab (Sweden) One of the main problems was that the Caen Wiesbaden Frankfurt a. M. LUXEMBOURG Mainz Volume ofKatowice goods shifted off the road: vessels serving the link were too small. Worms Praha Kraków Rzeszów Paris Châlons-en-Champagne 330m tonne-kilometres “The MarcoUKRA PoloÏNA grant made it possible Rennes Metz Saarbrücken ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA (three-year estimate) for us to buy the ship we needed to han- Stuttgart Orléans Strasbourg dle more and bigger trucks,” says RG Line Nantes EstimatedSLOVENSKÁ environmental benefit: €7.3m (overREPUBLIKA three years) CEO Börje Lassfolk, “Without the grant we BAY München Linz Sankt Pölten Wien Bratislava would have had to buy a smaller vessel.” Dijon Contact: poitier Salzburg Eisenstadt FRANCE Bessançon Bregenz OF Worgl Ö[email protected] Chişinău Bern Innsbruck Budapest “The Marco Polo grant made it possible for us to buy Limoges SUISSE Graz MAGYARORSZÁG the ship we needed to handle more and bigger trucks” BISCAY Klagenfurt Clermont-Ferrand Lyon Santiago de Compostela Bordeaux Aosta-Aoste Trento SLOVENIJA ROMÂNIA B Ö R J E L A S S F O L K , Oviedo Ljubjana Milano Zagreb Santander Trieste CEO RG LINE Torino Padova Bilbao Casale Venezia HRVATSKA San Sebastián “The new vessel had more lane metres for Vitoria-Gasteiz Toulouse Genova BOSNA I Beograd SAKARTVELO Bologna Bucureşti Porto Pamplona-Iruña Montpellier carrying trucks and the gate and freight-BLACK SEA Logroño Monaco SRBIJA Valladolid HERCEGOVINA deck dimensions allowed for more and Marseille Firenze A ANDORRA GULF Sarajevo HAÏASTAN Coimbra Ancona D larger loads. We doubled the cargo Zaragora Yerevan OF LIONS Perugia R volume during the project period as set PORTUGAL ESPAÑA I ITALIA A Soﬁja BÂLGARIJAout in our project proposal”, says Lass- Madrid CORSE T Lisboa Barcelona L’Aquilla IRAN Ajaccio I folk. “With the additional capacity, we Toledo Roma C Skopje were able to market the service more Évora Mérida S Campobasso E intensively than before.” A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina 8 ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro PAGE E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι Alger Athinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion Beyrouth Dimashq BARENTS SEA

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Jean-Marc Dumas, supply “The switch to rail during Sirius 1 chain projects director has not affected our ability to maintain at Evian, says the project is raising capacity from a high service level concerning punctuality two trains a week at and content of shipment” the end of 2008 to four a week in 2010. Each train J E A N - M A R C D U M A S , carries 1 000 tonnes of SUPPLY CHAIN PROJECTS DIRECTOR, water. “Sirius 1 is the EVIAN first stage of an -ambi tious supply chain re-engineering project. In the 2010-2014 period, we intend to shift to rail all shipments of Volvic and Evian

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι Alger Athinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat N SOURIYA Tunis BRINGING TANGIERS CLOSER E A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion Marocco Seaways Beyrouth Dimashq

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Before Italian shipping line, Grandi Navi Mediterranean rather than going straight Project name: Veloci (GNV), launched its Ro/Pax serv- to Morocco and back. “This was really Marocco Seaways ice from Genoa to Tangiers in Morocco beyond our control,” Fabrizio points out, via Barcelona, the goods it now carries “as we had made all the necessary ap- Size of Marco Polo grant: €1 830 418 by sea took a longer overland route. From plications and enlisted the support of the Italy, they went by road to Algeciras at Italian and Spanish authorities, but it took Duration of project grant: the southern tip of Spain before crossing much longer than we felt it needed to.” December 2006 to December 2009 the Mediterranean. Lead partner: Grandi Navi Veloci s.p.a., Genoa (Italy) “The new route was “The availability of Marco Polo funding Other partners: the result of analysing made a critical difference to the initial Agencia Maritima Condeminas (Spain), the commercial traffic F.A.I. Service S.C (Italy) between Italy and economics of the project” Volume of goods shifted off the road: Morocco, and between 921m tonne-kilometres Spain and Morocco, and F R A N C O F A B R I Z I O , GNV (three-year estimate) of surveying operators,” Estimated environmental benefit: says Franco Fabrizio of €28.8m (over three years) GNV. “This revealed a clear opening for As with any new product, it also took a cheaper and faster alternative.” time to convince customers that there is Contact: [email protected] a cheaper and better alternative to the The service carries goods from the hinter- way they are used to doing things – even land of both European ports – stretching though they might be saving as much as as far as the Milan region in the case of It- 50% of their costs. “So, the availability aly. These are generally consumer goods, of Marco Polo funding made a critical but there is also machinery. “And we car- difference to the initial economics of the ry raw materials for factories in Morocco, project,” says Fabrizio. “However, by which then ship the finished goods back May 2009 we had exceeded expectations by the same route,” adds Fabrizio. and added a second vessel on the route earlier than we had originally planned.” The project got off to a difficult start. GNV had hoped to launch the service in Sep- tember 2006, but had underestimated the difficulties of getting the necessary- per mits from the Moroccan authorities. It is unusual for such trips to call at an additional port in Europe before crossing the

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE T- R E X Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R new route CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι Alger old route Athinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E When times are hard, a Marco Polo grant Not everything has gone according to A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS can make all the difference. T-REX (Trans- plan. IFB had hoped to be operating four MALTA S E A LIBNAN Project name: Irakleion Beyrouth Dimashq Romanian Express) rail freight services round trips a week by September 2008, T-REX between Belgium and Romania are an but stopped at three “when the global Size of Marco Polo grant: example. “Without the Marco Polo pro- economic crisis put a – hopefully tem- €1 250 000 gramme, we would probably have started porary – stop to our ambitions for this Duration of project grant: the service, but with limited scope – one route and for building a much broader September 2006 to September 2009 round trip reserved for one customer at intermodal network linking the Benelux an agreed price, and with a risk of stop- and Romania.” Lead partner: ping if competitive conditions changed IFB sa/nv, Brussels (Belgium) drastically,” says Tony Struyf, Interna- IFB admits it underestimated the competi- Other partner: tional Business Development Manager tive responses from road freight opera- Intercontainer Austria GesmbH at IFB in Belgium. “With Marco Polo, tors, so “we actually only reached 84% (Austria) we can offer a regular service not just of our modal shift volume targets in the Volume of goods shifted off the road: to our main customer on 642m tonne-kilometres the route, but also to the “With Marco Polo, we can offer (three-year estimate) market as a whole – and a regular service not just to our main Estimated environmental benefit: maintain it in difficult €12.7m (over three years) customer on the route, but also times.” Contact: to the market as a whole – [email protected] The new service is fast- and maintain it in difficult times” er than sending goods by road – 42 hours T O N Y S T R U Y F , rather than 48 hours, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT the timings are more MANAGER, IFB BELGIUM reliable and the service is available over the weekend – when first year and 59% in the second,” says Austrian and German roads are closed Struyf. “We nevertheless believe that to trucks. “Goods loaded on the train achieving 65% of our targets on average in Genk, in the hinterland of Antwerp, over the two years of operation is a very on Friday evening will be delivered in good figure.” Bucharest/Sofia on Monday morning. This is ‘mission impossible’ by road,” Struyf points out. IFB estimates that the rail service is taking 11 500 trucks a year off the road – or 225km of trucks head to tail.

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso E L.O.G.I.S.T.I.C. A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro new route Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES old route Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia Are youSEA small but smart? Then Marco arrival time – and delays or problems. GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai Polo could be for you. “The Marco Polo Our customers can optimise their hu- R Project namePalermo: Αθήναι Alger Athinai LogisticA Operational network Tripolis programmeErmoupolis is a way for smaller but man and economic resources, and their Rabat N SOURIYA Tunis for Gas Innovative Supply smart operators to take part in an am- customers can make plans based on E and Transport betweenA Italy bitious project,” says Furio Bombardi,ΚΥΠΡΟΣ ‘just-in-time’ logistics.” N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS and Central EuropeValletta – L.O.G.I.S.T.I.C. Sales Manager at FS Logistica in Milan.ΚΥΡROS MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion Size of Marco Polo grant: “Without Marco Polo, Beyrouth Dimashq €487 374 I don’t think all the part- “The Marco Polo programme is a way ners in our project would Duration of project grant: for smaller but smart operators January 2006 to January 2009 have come together.” to take part in an ambitious project” Lead partner: FS Logistica s.p.a. (ex-Cargo Chemical), The project had two Milan (Italy) other major benefits: F U R I O B O M B A R D I , “It shortened the time S A L E S M A N A G E R , Other partners: FS LOGISTICA, MILAN Montana Gas GmbH (Germany), Primagaz to break-even point and Central Europe GmbH (Austria), Trenitalia was an opportunity to s.p.a. (Italy) introduce new technology to the logistics It was not all plain sailing. Market condi- Volume of goods shifted off the road: industry,” by developing and testing a new tions changed in 2007 and 2008 in ways 269m tonne-kilometres (three-year estimate) GPS tracking and tracing system for main- LOGISTIC could not have foreseen, Estimated environmental benefit: taining control of shipments of hazardous and the project fell short of its targets. €5.2m (over three years) materials over a wide geographic area. “Despite the difficulties, the LPG transport contracts were extended even after the Contact: [email protected] The project took advantage of rising project came to an end, so I am hopeful,” demand for LPG (liquefied petroleum says Bombardi, “not only that the service gas) in central and eastern Europe, and will continue in the years to come, but falling consumption in Italy at a time when that the model can be extended to other production was rising as a by-product of dangerous goods in future.” increased diesel fuel and petrol output. A rail service existed, but was not competitive because it was based on single, ad hoc loads. LOGISTIC launched a dedicated block train service – 12-14 wagons at a time.

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA A F R E I G H T- O N LY Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina WEEKEND FERRY Mytulini ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι Alger Athinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis Gulf Stream Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS new route MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion old route Beyrouth Dimashq

Gulf Stream is a Marco Polo project with the project business plan. “Economic offering a motorway-of-the-sea alterna- conditions force us to remain very atten- Project name: tive for freight traffic between northern tive to customer needs and to be able to Gulf Stream Spain and southern England. It has two propose innovative solutions which help Size of Marco Polo grant: special features: their profitability and their green image”, €870 077 he says. > It is a freight-only roll-on/roll-off service. Duration of project grant: This means that trucks and unaccom- “Ingrained habits are sometimes hard to March 2008 to March 2011 panied trailers do not have to compete break. We have to convince clients to test Lead partner: for space with tourist vehicles during for themselves the advantages of the new Brittany Ferries, Roscoff (France) the holiday season. service,” says Potier. “We show them our Other partners: commercial operations on the ground. Puerto de Santander (Spain), > The service operates one return sailing And we try hard to raise awareness Poole Harbour (UK), Brittany Ferries every weekend between the Spanish among transporters and logistics firms (UK) & Brittany Ferries (Spain) port of Santander and Poole on the Eng- of the cost differentials and productivity Volume of goods shifted off the road: lish south coast, so as to take advantage gains a direct sea link can provide.” 435m tonne-kilometres of the weekend ban on heavy trucks (three-year estimate) using the French national road network. Estimated environmental benefit: €12.1m (over three years) According to Brittany Ferries, which operates the service, the door-to-door cost Contact: and duration is less than overland transit [email protected] via France. The main users of the service are “Economic conditions force us to remain transport firms based in very attentive to customer needs Spain and Portugal at the southern end and UK and to be able to propose innovative and Irish hauliers at the solutions which help their profitability English end. The service and their green image” eases congestion at the Franco-Spanish frontier F R A N C O I S P O T I E R , and at the Channel ports. R&D MANAGER, BRITTANY FERRIES

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Stuttgart Orléans Strasbourg Nantes SLOVENSKÁ BAY REPUBLIKA München Linz Sankt Pölten Wien Scandinavian Shuttle Dijon Bratislava poitier Salzburg Eisenstadt FRANCE Bessançon Bregenz OF Worgl ÖSTERREICH Chişinău Bern Innsbruck Budapest Limoges SUISSE Graznew route MAGYARORSZÁG BISCAY Klagenfurt old route Clermont-Ferrand Lyon Santiago de Compostela Bordeaux Aosta-Aoste Trento SLOVENIJA ROMÂNIA Oviedo Ljubjana Milano Zagreb Santander Trieste The Scandinavian Shuttle uses the Oeresund UBQ director Sven-Erik Andersson says Torino Padova Bilbao Casale Venezia HRVATSKA San Sebastián Project name: fixed link, one of Europe’s biggest - infra the different rules and regulations of the Vitoria-Gasteiz Toulouse Genova BOSNA I Beograd SAKARTVELO Bologna Bucureşti Porto Pamplona-Iruña Montpellier structure projects co-funded by the EU, to nationalBLACK railway SEA authorities in Europe Logroño MonacoScandinavian Shuttle SRBIJA Valladolid HERCEGOVINA Marseille Firenze A help create a viable rail freight corridor be- were a major obstacle. “Although traffic ANDORRA GULF Size of Marco Polo grant: Sarajevo HAÏASTAN Coimbra Ancona D Zaragora tween continental Europe and Scandinavia. volumes are rising and the quality of the Yerevan OF LIONS €2 500 000 Perugia R PORTUGAL ESPAÑA I ITALIA A It targets theSoﬁja centralBÂLGARIJA stretch of the corridor service is constantly improving, we have Madrid CORSE T Lisboa Barcelona Duration of project grant: L’Aquilla IRAN Ajaccio I Toledo – from the Ruhr region of Germany to south- found that rail transport is much harder Roma C Skopje June 2006 to May 2010 Évora Mérida S Campobasso E ern and central Sweden via Denmark. to handle than more conventional road A Tiranë Komotini Lead partner: Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca UBQSARDEGNA AB of Malmoe, Sweden Potenza The Scandinavian Shut- Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla “The project has given us a higher market ISLAS BALEARES Other partners: tle operates a daily rail Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina profile as an environment-friendly company Van Dieren (Netherlands) & NGIL, serviceΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA with fixed jour- Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA and has raised awareness of environment GIBRALTAR Almería M I T EOeresund Logistic (Sweden) ney times, providing Tanger R CEUTA Patrai Volume ofR goods shiftedPalermo off the road: just-in-time goodsΑθήναι deliv- issues among our staff” Alger Athinai 923m tonne-kilometresA eries inTripolis both directions.Ermoupolis Rabat N SOURIYA (four-yearTunis estimate) It uses the Oeresund SVEN-ERIK ANDERSSON, E UBQ DIRECTOR ΚΥΠΡΟΣ Estimated environmental benefitA : tunnel and bridge be- N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta tween Copenhagen and ΚΥΡROS €27.5m (over four years)MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion Malmoe. Before the Scandinavian Shut- Beyrouth Dimashq Contact: transport”, he says. Asked about the ben- [email protected] tle, the main option for customers was a efits for UBQ, he says “the project has combination of truck and ferry services given us a higher market profile as an between Germany and Sweden. environment-friendly company and has raised awareness of environment issues The project sets out to provide the rail among our staff”. transit service with the levels of quality and reliability associated with road transport. Each container or trailer has a mobile phone module with a GPS card reporting its position in near-real time to a Reliability Control Centre to facilitate cargo track-and-trace. The train locomo- tive is equipped to cope with the switch between the Danish and Swedish elec- tricity and Automatic Train Control (ATC) systems in the middle of the Oeresund fixed link. The Scandinavian Shuttle is open to any train operator wishing to use it.

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Project Manager Sabine Piribauer of February 2006. The budget for the new lead partner via donau shows how train- project has been more than doubled. Project name: EWITA ing is vital for changing minds and modes Size of Marco Polo grant: €756 445 on Europe’s great waterways. The initial programme developed a Euro- pean concept for training on intermodal Duration of project grant: WHY DID YOU DEVELOP THE EWITA inland waterway transport which it then June 2008 to May 2010 PROJECT AND ITS E-LEARNING applied to the Danube corridor via an In- Lead partner: via donau PLATFORMS? land Navigation eLearning System (INeS). (Österreichische Wasserstrassen- Gesellschaft mbH, Vienna (Austria) Europe’s inland waterway sector is facing “We very much liked Other partners: Stichting Projecten a skills and labour shortage at a critical Binnenvaart (Netherlands), European the Marco Polo focus time. EWITA aims to fill the gap by creating Intermodal Association (Belgium), a common European training concept and on operational activities Forschung- & Entwicklungs-GmbH, practical training programmes for intermo- related to the economy Campus Steyr FH OÖ (Austria), dal inland waterway transport. It covers Imagination Computer Services and the business sector rather both the Danube and Rhine corridors. (Austria), Promotie Binnenvaart than on research projects” Vlaanderen (Belgium), Romanian Spreading knowledge on this highly envi- Maritime Training Centre, CERONAV ronment-friendly and cost-effective mode S A B I N E P I R I B A U E R , (Romania), Regionaal Opleidingen of transport and making it easily accessi- PROJECT MANAGER, VIA DONAU Centrum Zeeland (Netherlands), ble, helps shift traffic from roads to inland Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa C. Schroedter & Co (Germany) waterways in the longer term. EWITA of- EWITA refines and expands the concept, fers the latest training concepts and state- updates the INeS Danube, and creates a Contact: [email protected] of-the-art e-learning platforms for water- similar platform, INeS RMS, for the Rhine- borne logistics in Europe. They are tailored Meuse-Scheldt corridor. Both platforms in a flexible way to interface with the train- are available in English, German, Dutch ing needs of future inland shipping opera- and/or Romanian. tors and interested transport users. HOW DID MARCO POLO HELP? IT THIS PART OF A LONGER-TERM PROCESS? We very much liked the Marco Polo focus on operational activities related to the EWITA stands for European web platforms economy and the business sector rather and training concepts for inter-modal than on research projects. Practical inland waterway transport. It is a direct projects with industrial partners can be follow-up to an earlier Marco Polo project handled in a less complicated way. eWIT, which ran from December 2003 to

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso new route E A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia old route ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES When outside evaluators looked at the in Denmark on the Danish-German border Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina Project name: ItaloExpressΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA project Mytulini for the European once terminal improvements there were Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T ItaloExpressE Commission, they commented positively ready. “We are particularly proud,” Lüttig Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo on the punctualityΑθήναι and reliability of this adds, “of having turned what was initially Alger Size of Marco Polo grant: Athinai A Ermoupolis €3 500 000 new railTripolis service from northern Germany a project into a sustainable product.” Rabat N SOURIYA Tunis to northern Italy. These had previously Duration of project grantE : A been major issues on this route. By in- The barriersΚΥΠΡΟΣ to a successful new service January 2005-December 2008 N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta were economic,ΚΥΡROS technical, operational – MALTA S E A troducing tracked-and-traced intermodal LIBNAN Irakleion Lead partner: Beyrouth service using its own locomotives and and psychological. “We hadDimashq to overcome TX Logistik AG, Bad Honnef (Germany) wagons, ItaloExpress has been able to the reluctance of competing firms to bun- Other partners: offer change not only in reliability and dle their shipments on the same train, and Trenitalia s.p.a. (Italy), punctuality, but also in the form of flexibil- fears about loss of flexibility compared DHL Express (Sweden) ity and transparent pricing. to the road. Recognising that promoting Volume of goods shifted off the road: intermodality means changing mindsets 1,35 billion tonne-kilometres “We offer a one-stop-shop between was for us a key part of the project, and (four-year estimate) freight forwarders. The three-stop-shop, it is important to understand that,” Lüttig Estimated environmental benefit: involving operator, rail company and says. €28.3m (over four years) terminal, is a thing of the past,” says Thorsten Lüttig, Divisional Manager at TX Contact: [email protected] Logistik, the lead company and a German private-sector affiliate of the Italian railways. “We offer a one-stop-shop between Its partners were the freight forwarders. The three-stop-shop, Italian railways and DHL Express Sweden. “The involving operator, rail company prospect of Marco Polo and terminal, is a thing of the past” funding created lever- age in getting all the T H O R S T E N L Ü T T I G , partners on board,” says D I V I S I O N A L M A N A G E R , TX LOGISTIK Lüttig.

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Stuttgart Orléans Strasbourg Nantes SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA BAY München Linz Sankt Pölten Wien BaSS Bratislava Dijon poitier Salzburg Eisenstadt FRANCE Bessançon Bregenz OF Worgl ÖSTERREICH Chişinău Bern Innsbruck Budapest Limoges SUISSE Graz MAGYARORSZÁG new route BISCAY Klagenfurt Clermont-Ferrand Lyon old route Santiago de Compostela Bordeaux Aosta-Aoste Trento SLOVENIJA ROMÂNIA Oviedo Ljubjana Milano Zagreb Santander Trieste Torino Padova Using short-sea routes for shipping cargoBilbao network to/from different destinationsCasale in Venezia HRVATSKA San Sebastián SAKARTVELO is, of course, desirable on environmentalVitoria-Gasteiz the BalticToulouse Sea area. Tesch says: “progressGenova BOSNA I Beograd Bologna Project name: Bucureşti Porto Pamplona-Iruña Montpellier BLACK SEA Logroño Monaco SRBIJA grounds, but at the end ofValladolid the day it has was fast – in the first nine months, truck HERCEGOVINA Marseille Firenze BalticA Sea Shuttle (BaSS) ANDORRA GULF Sarajevo HAÏASTAN to make economicCoimbra sense as well. This is and trailer traffic between Rostock and Ancona D Zaragora Yerevan OF LIONS Perugia SizeR of Marco Polo grant: why ScandlinesPORTUGAL turned toESPAÑA the Marco Polo Ventspils doubled and went up by another I ITALIA €1 316A 000 Soﬁja BÂLGARIJA Madrid CORSE T Lisboa Barcelona L’Aquilla IRAN Ajaccio I Programme for short-term Toledosupport to ad- 35% the following year” Roma C Skopje Duration of project grant: Évora Mérida S just to increased competition from road Campobasso E January 2006 toA JanuaryTiran ë2009 Komotini “Without Marco Polo funding to under- Bari transport for its Baltic freight services Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca write the start-up costs in the earlySARDEGNA years, Lead partnerPotenza : after theFaro EU enlargement of 2004. Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Scandlines Deutschland GmbH, Murcia I don’t think we would have increasedTYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina Rostock-Warnemünde (Germany)ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini The aim of BaSS was to increase the the frequency,” says Tesch. “And we Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E share of seaTanger transport in the overall were successful. Traffic did R move back Other partners: CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι freight traffic between Germany and the to the seaAlger and we met all our Marco Polo Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Athinai A Ermoupolis Rostock mbH (Germany); Tripolis Baltic states,Rabat and on SOURIYA Tunis N E Free Port of Ventspils (Latvia) to Poland and Russia. “Without Marco Polo funding to underwrite ΚΥΠΡΟΣ A IRAQ An existing service be- VolumeN of goods shifted off the road: Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia EL MAGHREB the start-up costsEL DJAZ inÂ IR the early years,TOUNIS I don’t Valletta ΚΥΡROS MALTA S E A LIBNAN tween Rostock (Germa- 658m tonne-kilometres Irakleion think we would have increased the frequency” Beyrouth Dimashq ny) and Liepaja (Latvia) (three-year estimate) was moved to Ventspils, Estimated environmental benefit: GERNOT TESCH, another Latvian port, D E P U T Y L I N E M A N A G E R €20.8m (over three years) and expanded through SWEDEN/BALTICUM/FINLAND, SCANDLINES Contact: the deployment of an ad- [email protected] ditional vessel. This doubled capacity and project milestones. In general, the first frequency (from two to four departures aim should always be to get rid of the per port and per week. Since then, a third competitive disadvantage of sea traffic ferry has been employed on the route. compared to land traffic, in order to make support programmes like Marco Polo re- “By moving to Ventspils, we were able dundant in the long-term.” to offer customers better port infrastructure”, says Gernot Tesch, Deputy Line Manager Sweden/Balticum/Finland for Scandlines, “and to develop this port as a hub for all Scandlines activities in eastern Europe”. At the Rostock end, one of the attractions for this traffic was the ability to transfer not just to rail and road, but to utilise synergies with the existing route

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini FGI SystemBari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES new route Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN oldCagliari route Kerkyra Ioannina ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Production of glass is not evenly distrib- gium to Spain and Portugal. As the Span- Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R utedPalermo across Europe. Broadly speaking, ish railwayΑθήναι gauge is different from that of Project nameAlger : Athinai FGI System A the production plants are in northern Tripolis France and ErmoupolisBelgium, the containers must Rabat N SOURIYA Tunis Europe, in particular Belgium, France be transferred to trucks at the Franco- Size of Marco Polo grant: E and theA Netherlands, and the consum- Spanish border. Over the life of the project, ΚΥΠΡΟΣ €3 000 000 N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS ers, of course,Valletta are everywhere. This cre- Lannutti hopes to shift more than half a ΚΥΡROS Duration of project grant: MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion ates a need for specialist long-distance million tonnes from road to rail in trans- Beyrouth April 2008 to April 2013 Dimashq transport. ports from Belgium to Italy and Spain. Lead partner: Lannutti s.p.a., Cuneo (Italy) Jumbo sheets of flat “The Marco Polo funding was important to us, Other partner: glass – 6m x 3.21m – in- because it reduces the risk associated Lannutti sprl (France) tended mainly for the Volume of goods shifted off the road: construction and auto- with a highly innovative investment 496m tonne-kilometres motive industries are and allows us to give a higher technical (five-year estimate) normally carried by road content to our services” Estimated environmental benefit: in specially designed €9.9m (over five years) trailers (inloaders) with F R A N C O G H I G L I O N E , hydraulic systems and Contact: LANNUTTI air bags to cushion them [email protected] [email protected] from shocks. The FGI System project is for “While all this may sound simple,” the first time deploying a modified design Ghiglione adds, “it actually required of the special inloaders and using cranes investment in a new intermodal fleet. to transfer them from the road to flatbed We believe the project has good long- railway wagons. term prospects, but the Marco Polo funding was important to us, because it “This made intermodal transport possi- reduces the risk associated with a highly ble for the first time,” Franco Ghiglione of innovative investment and allows us to lead company Lannutti points out. “It also give a higher technical content to our has the added benefit that more weight services.” can be carried per inloader. There are weight restrictions when we ship by road. Between Belgium and Italy, the first route used for the new system, there is a weight gain per inloader of about 25%.”

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Eduard Rodés, Director of the Escola Authority into a school with a European Europea de Short Sea Shipping in dimension. We take students from seven Project name: Barcelona, describes his experience different EU countries. GLAD – Green Logistics Action with Marco Polo. & Deployment WHAT DO YOU TEACH? Size of Marco Polo grant: WHAT IS THE ESCOLA EUROPEA €1 355 152 DE SHORT SEA SHIPPING? GLAD provides two courses: Motorways of the Sea Training (MOST) and SURCO, Duration of project grant: As the name suggests, we teach short- Simple Use Railway Connections. Each March 2009 to February 2011 sea shipping – combining hands-on train- four-day course is stand-alone, but they Lead partner: ing and high academic standards. We run can be combined over a week. During Escola Europea de Short Sea Shipping, courses for students and people working the first two years, we ran three short- Barcelona (Spain) in the industry on board vessels plying sea shipping courses – an introduction to Other partners: the Mediterranean between Barcelona in maritime logistics, basic operations and Port Authority of Barcelona (Spain), Spain and Civitavecchia in Italy. We be- services, and global logistics operations. Grimaldi Compagnia di Navigazione lieve this approach makes us unique. and Grandi Navi Veloci (Italy), WHAT IS DIFFERENT NOW FROM Port Authorities of Rome/Lazio WHAT HAS BEEN THE ROLE WHEN YOU STARTED? and Genoa (Italy), Ferrocarriles OF THE MARCO POLO PROGRAMME? de Via Estrecha-FEVE (Spain) We are emphasising inter-modality much Contact: Marco Polo first gave us €1m for an initial more. We have an additional partner, [email protected] two-year project which has been com- FEVE, a Spanish railway company, giv- pleted. We successfully bid for another ing us on-train classrooms in addition to two-year grant of €1.3m to cover the second “We teach students how to measure phase known as GLAD. The Marco Polo grants the true long-term environmental cost met just over one third of different forms of transport” of our costs initially and almost half the second EDUARD RODÉS, DIRECTOR OF THE ESCOLA time. Those are short EUROPEA DE SHORT SEA SHIPPING, BARCELONA time spans in terms of what we would like for forward planning our classrooms at sea. The environmental purposes, but Marco Polo has neverthe- content of the courses is also greater. We less been vital for us. We would otherwise teach students how to measure the true not have been able to expand the similar long-term environmental cost of different local courses run by the Barcelona Port forms of transport.

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina A MARK OF QUALITYMytulini ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι Alger The WestMed BridgeAthinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS new route MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion old route Beyrouth Dimashq

Why go by road through northern Italy, “We transported 4% fewer trailers in Project name: across southern France and down the the first year than we had expected,” The WestMed Bridge Spanish coast to get from Civitavecchia Kyprianou admits. “Nevertheless, we are just north of Rome to Barcelona in Spain, optimistic about this route, particularly Size of Marco Polo grant: €4 500 000 when you can go across the Mediterra- once further upgrades to road and rail nean? Even if the ultimate destination is links to the hinterland at either end and Duration of project grant: Lisbon, the new route still makes sense. planned improvements to port infrastruc- April 2008 to March 2011 This was the thinking behind the Marco ture are complete.” Lead partner: Polo Eurostars project, which ran from Atlantica S.p.A. di Navigazione, 2004-2006 and launched this route for Ro- Despite short-term setbacks, Kyprianou Naples (Italy) Ro transport. is enthusiastic about the Marco Polo Other partner: programme: “The investment cost of new Grimaldi Logistica España (Spain) That success gave rise to a succes- ships to upgrade the service is huge, so Volume of goods shifted off the road: sor project: The Westmed Bridge – an the programme has brought us significant 2.25 billion tonne-kilometres improved service with bigger vessels financial benefit in the start-up phase. (three-year estimate) increasing loading capacity for rolling Being awarded Marco Polo funding Estimated environmental benefit: freight (accompanied and unaccom- is also a form of quality mark for our €66.5m (over three years) panied trailers) by 65%. It is over 40% business.” cheaper and one-third faster by sea than Contact: [email protected] by moving the same freight by road. “We are faster and “Being awarded Marco Polo funding is also cheaper, and this is a a form of quality mark for our business” more reliable service with departures and P A U L K Y P R I A N O U , arrivals on fixed days EXTERNAL RELATIONS MANAGER, of the week and at GRIMALDI GROUP fixed times,” says Paul Kyprianou, External Relations Manager for the Grimaldi Group. “Over the life of the project, we expect the equivalent of 72 585 trucks or trailers to be shifted from road to sea.”

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A DEUTSCHLAND C H A N N E L BELGI Ë Łódż I S H Bruxelles Düsseldorf N G L Lille Brussel E BELGIQUE Lublin D E F I N I T E LY W O R T H Namur Erfurt Dresden Wrocław Kyïv THE EFFORT Amiens Kielce Rouen Opole DZRS Caen Wiesbaden Frankfurt a. M. LUXEMBOURG Mainz Katowice new route Worms Praha Kraków Rzeszów Paris Châlons-en-Champagne old route Saarbrücken UKRA ÏNA The procedures associatedRennes with Marco for the Far East and the UK. In Duisburg, Metz ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA Polo funding can sometimes appear too they can transfer directly to a Vienna- Project name: much of a challenge for some companies. Budapest rail shuttle or make use of in- DZRS – Duisburg-Zeebrugge Complaints about the Brussels bureauc- ternational combined transport networks Rail Shuttle Stuttgart racy are not uncommon. But Norbert operating out of a dedicatedOrléans terminal. Size of Marco Polo grant: Strasbourg Rekers, Director of Sales Nantes €503 847 SLOVENSKÁ for the Duisport Agency “We would reapply. Duration of project grant: in Germany says things The hurdles to getting the money October 2006 to October 2009 REPUBLIKA BAY have got better: “We München Linz Sankt Pölten Wien would reapply. On the have been reduced; on the other hand, Lead partner: Duisport Agency GmbH, Bratislava one hand, the hurdles to Dijon the poitieramount of money has been increased” Duisburg (Germany) getting the money have Salzburg Eisenstadt FRANCE Other partners: Port Connect NV Bregenz been reduced; on the N O R B E R T R E K E R S , Bessançon OF other hand, the amount DIRECTOR OF SALES FOR THE DUISPORT AGENCY, (Belgium), CMA/CGM (Belgium), ÖSTERREICH Chişinău IFB Inter Ferry Boat (Belgium) Bern Budapest of money has been in- GERMANY Innsbruck creased. All in all, that Volume of goods shifted off the road: Graz MAGYARORSZÁG makes the benefit very worthwhileLimoges for The traffic shifted from road to rail- ex 252m tonne-kilometres SUISSE new intermodal projects.” In the case ceeded forecasts by well over 5% in (three-year estimate) BISCAYof the DZRS (Duisburg-Zeebrugge Rail the first two years. Duisport was able Estimated environmental benefit: Klagenfurt Shuttle) project, the benefit covers just to go from threeClermont-Ferrand services each way per €4.0mLyon (over three years) week to four within three months – “fast- Santiago de Compostela under half the losses anticipatedBordeaux in the Contact: first three years of operation. The project er than we had expected,” says Rekers. [email protected] Aosta-Aoste Trento SLOVENIJA ROM ÂNIA “The final objective was five times a Oviedo is taking the equivalent of more than Ljubjana 25 000 standard containers of cargo off week, and we achieved this in 2008. We Milano Zagreb Santander the roads each year. unfortunately had to cut back to four again Trieste once EU economies entered recession in Torino Venezia HRVATSKA DZRS provides a train link between the 2008-2009, but the project is still meeting world’s largest inland container port – its traffic shift targets.” Duisburg (Duisport) – and two of northern Vitoria-Gasteiz Europe’s major seaports, Zeebrugge and Toulouse Genova B O S N A I Beograd SAKARTVELO Antwerp. Previously the containers had Bologna Bucureşti Porto a difficultPamplona-Iruña road journey. “Congestion was Montpellier B L A C K S E A Logroño actually a threat to the growth of traffic,” Monaco SRBIJA Valladolid Rekers says. HERCEGOVINA Marseille Firenze A In Zeebrugge, containers arrive at termi- Sarajevo nals for direct transfer to ships - ANDORRAmainly GULF HA ÏASTAN Coimbra Ancona D Zaragora Yerevan 21 OF LIONS Perugia R PORTUGAL ESPAÑA PAGE I ITALIA A Soﬁja BÂLGARIJA Madrid CORSE T Lisboa Barcelona L’Aquilla IRAN Ajaccio I Toledo Roma C Skopje

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Évora Mérida S new route Campobasso E old route A Tiranë Komotini Bari Valencia ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro “European Union support is important them. Then manyKozani trailers did not have T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES for us and sends a powerful signal to the ferry eyes (fixture points) for lashing them MurciaProject name: TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina Ro-Ro Past France market that our project has a European di- on board ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA the vessel. In addition, someMytulini Catanzaro E D I mension.” For KarelSEA Van Zijl from the lead operators were notLamia familiar withSEA unac- GIBRALTAR Almería Size of Marco PoloM grant: T E Tanger R CEUTA company, Spliethoff’s Bevrachtingskan- companied transportPatrai (trailers without the €6 800 000 R Palermo Αθήναι Alger toor of Amsterdam, this is one of the big driving unit and driver). WeAthinai spent time Duration of project grant: A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat benefits of theN Marco Polo programme. helping hauliers from Spain and Portugal SOURIYA September 2007 to December 2011 Tunis E and those from the northern end of the link Lead partner: As its name indicates, thisA project pro- ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N to sort out how they could provide driving Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB Spliethoff’sEL Bevrachtingskantoor, DJAZÂ IR TOUNISvides a motorway-of-the-seaValletta alternative ΚΥΡROS MALTA S unitsE forA each other’s trailers.” LIBNAN Amsterdam (Netherlands) Irakleion to get freight off the congested interna- Beyrouth Dimashq Other partners: tional road transit corridor across France. “We expected to break even after year Transfennica Iberia S.L (Spain), Ro-Ro Past France initially offered three one; but the economic crisis came along. Transfennica Belgium BVBA (Belgium), sailings a week (rising to five in Septem- Volumes are rising again and we are con- Oy Transfennica AB (Finland) ber 2009) in each direction between Bil- fident for the future. We trust the EU sub- Volume of goods shifted off the road: bao in northern Spain and the Belgian sidy will partly compensate us for what 8.4 billion tonne-kilometres port of Zeebrugge. Each vessel carries up we have invested in this service,” says (4.3-year estimate) to 200 unaccompanied road trailers. Van Zijl. Estimated environmental benefit: At the Spanish end, €211m (over 4.3 years) “European Union support is important for us trucks deliver trailers to Contact: Bilbao destined for the and sends a powerful signal to the market [email protected] Benelux, north Germany, that our project has a European dimension” the United Kingdom and Sweden. Trailers for KAREL VAN ZIJL, the UK and Sweden are SPLIETHOFF’S BEVRACHTINGSKANTOOR, AMSTERDAM transhipped to another ferry at Zeebrugge. Other trailers continue by road to their final destination. Southbound freight does the same in reverse.

“We encountered a number of problems at the outset”, says Van Zijl. “First, we had to convince customers we were serious. Other operators had promised similar services but never delivered on

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Évora Mérida S Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Valencia Bari WANT MODAL SHIFT Napoli ANKARA Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia SEA GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai Euro Reefer Rail Net R Palermo Αθήναι Alger Athinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E A ΚΥΠΡΟΣ N new route Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ EL MAGHREB EL DJAZÂ IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS MALTA S E A LIBNAN old route Irakleion Beyrouth Dimashq

A new rail freight network and innovative “These are early days. The service is multimodal refrigerated containers are at stable and developing, but the econom- Project name: the heart of this ambitious project. Its aim ic recession has meant lower freight Euro Reefer Rail Net is to switch freight from 11 long-distance volumes and decreasing prices in the Size of Marco Polo grant: road routes onto rail. These truck routes freight transport market”, says Schouten. €2 128 948 cross Europe from Finland in the North to “We have carried out our modal shift Duration of project grant: Italy in the south and from Poland in the carefully and successfully and are January 2009 to December 2011 east to the UK in the west. They are being making all efforts to achieve the principal replaced by a network of nine dedicated targets.” Lead partner: rail freight services with fixed routes and HZ Holding B.V. Maasdijk (The Netherlands) schedules. Other partner: According to the lead “The project helps us to realise Danone N.V. (Belgium) company, Dutch trans- our strategy to force a change of mindset Volume of goods shifted off the road: port group HZ Hold- 1.09 billion tonne-kilometres ing, pressure for this in the existing road transport market” (three-year estimate) modal shift from road Estimated environmental benefit: to rail is coming from E D W I N S C H O U T E N , DIRECTOR; HZ LOGISTICS €15.2m (over three years) environmentally aware Contact: manufacturers and cus- [email protected] tomers rather than from governments or freight forwarders. “The project helps us to realise our strategy to force a change of mindset in the existing road transport market”, says HZ logistics director Edwin Schouten.

In addition to launching and operating the new rail network, the Euro Reefer Rail Net will also demonstrate and utilise innovative 45-foot reefer containers to transport products that need to be kept cool during transport. Most of the new rail routes are more than 1 000 kilometres long, serving freight terminals in seven countries: Bel- gium, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Finland and Austria.

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LUXEMBOURG Mainz Katowice Worms Praha Kraków Rzeszów Paris Châlons-en-Champagne Rennes Metz Saarbrücken ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA UPRIVER BY BOAT AND TRUCK UKRA ÏNA ETS Elbe Stuttgart Orléans Strasbourg Nantes SLOVENSKÁ new route REPUBLIKA BAY München Linz Sanktold route Pölten Wien Bratislava Dijon This project sets out its green credentials downstream rail and waterway services. poitier Project nameSalzburg: ETS Elbe Eisenstadt up front. ETS stands for Ecological Trans- Stefan Kunze of Sächsische Binnen- FRANCE Bregenz port Service. The aim is to expand the häfen Oberelbe says that even during the Bessançon Size of Marco Polo grant: potential for freight transport on the River extreme low water levels of 2008 “cargo OF €1 635 330ÖSTERREICH Chişinău Bern Innsbruck Elbe between Germany and theBudapest Czech tonnages remained unaffected, thanks Duration of project grant: Republic by introducing scheduled to the intensive efforts we made to April 2007 to March 2011 Limoges SUISSE Graz servicesMAGYARORSZÁG using an integrated transport ensure customers’ interests were our top Lead partner: Sächsische Binnenhäfen container system. priority”. BISCAY OberelbeKlagenfurt GmbH, Dresden Clermont-Ferrand Lyon Other partners: The biggest obstacle to “The big extra bonus for us from the project Bordeaux Industriehafen Roßlau GmbH, expanding freight traf- Santiago de Compostela has been the knock-on effect of our marketing Aosta-Aoste Trento MagdeburgerSLOVENIJA Hafen GmbH, (Germany), fic on the Elbe has been ROM ÂNIA for ETS Elbe. New customers have now started Oviedo CSPL a.s., Česko-SaskeLjubjana Přistavy s.r.o. periods of extremely low Milano (CzechTrieste Republic), Odra Rhein Lloyd Zagrebwater, when the size to use the service, bringing new business, Santander GmbH (Germany) and draught of usable Torino Venezia especially for our port installations” Bilbao Volume of goods shifted off the road: HRVATSKAvessels were limited. San Sebastián 440m tonne-kilometres This also made it hard STEFAN KUNZE, (four-year estimate) to introduce scheduled SÄCHSISCHE BINNENHÄFEN OBERELBE services. The result Vitoria-Gasteiz Toulouse Genova Estimated environmental benefit: B O S N A I Beograd SAKARTVELO Bologna €10.5m (over four years) was that many shippers migrated to road “One unexpected problem we ran into Bucureşti Porto Pamplona-Iruña Montpellier Contact: transport for the whole inland journey was the different technical specifications B L A C K S E A Logroño Monaco [email protected] from the German seaports of Hamburg or SRBIJAof the vessels and barges we use,” says Valladolid HERCEGOVINABremerhaven. Kunze. “These are from Germany, the Marseille Firenze A Czech Republic and Poland. And despite The ETS Elbe projectSarajevo overcomes the European norms, they had to be modified ANDORRA GULF problem by providing a scheduled inland HA ÏASTAN Coimbra Ancona D to make them compatible with each other waterway service connecting the deep- and with the equipment and installations Zaragora Yerevan OF LIONS Perugia R water system of the Mittellandkanal and in each country.” the shallow-draught River Elbe system. PORTUGAL ESPAÑA I The project uses inland waterways for “The big extra bonus for us from the ITALIA A the whole journey when possible, with lo- project has been the knock-onSoﬁja effect of BÂLGARIJA Madrid CORSE T cal replacement road services when part our marketing for ETS Elbe. New custom- Lisboa Barcelona L’Aquilla of the river is not navigable. The use of ers have now started to use the service, IRAN Ajaccio I Toledo containers allows a mix of modes. bringing new business, especially for our Roma C port installations,” SkopjeKunze says. Évora The hub for the ETS Elbe project is the Mérida river portS of Magdeburg. It complements Campobasso E A Tiranë Komotini Bari 24 Valencia PAGE ANKARA Napoli Thessaloniki Palma de Mallorca SARDEGNA Potenza Faro Kozani T ÜRKIYE Sevilla ISLAS BALEARES Murcia TYRRHENIAN Larisa AEGEAN Cagliari Kerkyra Ioannina ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕLLΑDA Mytulini Catanzaro E D SEA Lamia S E A GIBRALTAR Almería M I T E Tanger R CEUTA Patrai R Palermo Αθήναι Alger Athinai A Tripolis Ermoupolis Rabat SOURIYA Tunis N E A Κ Υ Π Ρ Ο Σ N Λευκσίσ - Lefkosia IRAQ E L M A G H R E B E L D J A Z Â IR TOUNIS Valletta ΚΥΡROS MALTA S E A LIBNAN Irakleion Beyrouth Dimashq

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LIGHTENING THE LOAD MARCO POLO LEADS THE WAY

Freight transport clogs Europe’s roads. Yet its railways, sea routes and inland waterways are under- used. Marco Polo is an EU programme designed to promote these environment-friendly modes of transport and to shift freight from congested roads. In this brochure, a number of companies describe how, with Marco Polo support, they launched rail, short-sea shipping and inland waterway projects as greener alternatives for handling freight. Their message is clear. To succeed, their projects had to make economic as well as ecological sense. Many road transport users hesitate to change modes without clear economic benefit. Contributors all say projects would have been scaled back or not launched at all without Marco Polo funding during the critical start-up phase. This helped make the economic case to customers for a switch to rail, short-sea shipping routes or inland waterways. But this brochure also shows how Marco Polo support added credibility to projects – a valuable marketing tool – and enhanced the green credentials of project participants, another significant benefit.

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