BESTFACT second International Workshop on e-Freight: “East West Corridor information exchange” – Collaborate – Communicate – Harmonize – Adapt – Control – 18th & 19th June 2013 in Vilnius Venue: Lithuanian Railways, Mindaugo Gatvė 12, Vilnius, Lithuania General information The BESTFACT (Best Practice Factory for Freight Transport) project is a Coordination and support action under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. On Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 of June 2013, BESTFACT will organise its third international workshop, which is the second on e-Freight. The workshop is hosted by Lithuanian Railways and will take place at its premises in Vilnius, Lithuania. In practice, BESTFACT intends to develop, disseminate and enhance the utilisation of best practices and innovations in freight logistics which contribute to meeting European transport policy targets: promoting the boost of competitiveness and decreasing the environmental impacts. This second international cluster workshop on e-Freight will deal with the top issues, such as corridor information exchange and information management under changing logistics. Well-known representatives from the private and public sector will present in the first session current examples of best practices and results of collaboration and exchange along transport corridors. In second session it will be discuss how e-Freight can support logistics to be adapted under future logistic challenges in the Baltic Region notably on green corridors. Furthermore, it will present the main targets and challenges in freight transport and logistics and other high priority aspects in the fields of infrastructure, technology and organisation. Finally, a technical visit to the Control Center of Lithuanian Railways will offer the opportunity to see some state-of-the-art solutions for managing transporting goods along East-West corridors. workshop on e-Freight “East West Corridor information exchange” Venue: Lithuanian Railways, Mindaugo Gatvė 12, Vilnius, Lithuania Day 1: Tuesday, 18th June 2013 Time Cluster Workshop – First sessions moderated by prof. Andrius Jaržemskis, VGTU 10:00 10:30 Registration and reception 10:30 11:30 Welcome speeches - Vladislav Kondatovič, Vice Minister MOTC LT - Mr. Stasys Dailydka, Director General LitRail - Marcel Huschebeck, PTV - Fleur Breuillin, DG MOVE (EC) 11:30 12:00 Key note speeches: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS): Opportunities Martin Magold, Sustainable Transport Section, and challenges for intermodal transport Transport Division, UNECE Development Green corridor in Baltic Sea Area Algirdas Sakalys, VGTU ITLKC EU- Belarus border (customs, information exchange, Antanas Šipavičius, Director General of CIM, SMGS consignment note) Lithuanian Customs department 12:00 13:00 Lunch 13:00 13:10 Introductions to BESTFACT cluster on e-Freight Roland Frindik, MARLO, BESTFACT e-Freight cluster leader 13:10 14:40 TIEKE Verkottaja Service - Tools for electronic data Heikki Laaksamo, TIEKE interchange utilizers “KoKoBahn” data exchange between rail hinterland Horst Pahl, Tradav stakeholders Freight information system in Klaipeda seaport Arturas Drungilas, Director of marketing of (KIPIS) Klaipeda Seaport Authority 14:40 15:00 Coffee and Tea Break 15:00 16.00 East West transport corridor Association Gunnar Fastén, NetPort.Karlshamn AB (Information broker system) VIKING train Saulius Stasiunas, Lithuanian Railways Ivan Liptuga, (Vice President of FIATA) 16:00 16:45 Panel Diskussion moderated by Andrius Jaržemskis, VGTU 17:00 18:00 Technical visit: Control Center Lithuanian Railways Lithuanian Railways headquarter “cross border corridor management” (at the venue) 19:30 Common dinner at Restaurant Tores, Vilnius (directions will be provided at the venue) Day 2: Wednesday, 19th June 2013 Time Cluster Workshop – Second sessions 08:30 09:00 Registration and reception moderated by Antti Permala, VTT Samuel Henningsson, 09:00 09:15 Introduction into the session NetPort Karlshamn Christopher Pålsson, 09:15 09:45 An outlook for logistics in the Baltic maritime-insight Jerker Sjögren, 09:45 10:15 Green corridors and their relevance for the Baltic region Closer Dr. Jan Tore Pedersen, 10:15 10:45 How ICT can support logistics in green corridors MARLO 10:45 11:05 Coffee and Tea Break 11:05 11:50 Panel discussion moderated by Antti Permala, VTT Roland Frindik, 11:50 12:00 Conclusions of the workshop (BESTFACT cluster 3 leader) 12:00 13:00 Lunch 13:00 End of the Workshop Objective of the workshop This is the third of a series of international workshops introducing three clusters from the BESTFACT project: urban freight, green logistics and co-modality and e-Freight. This workshop focus purely on the cluster e-Freight. The general nature of the workshop is to provide access, room for discussion and information exchange to different groups of interest with regard to the subjects covered in this cluster on e- Freight. In this way, the transferability of different cases is promoted and better coordination between industrial and administrative stakeholders is achieved. It will also serve as the basis to identify best practices and to promote their transferability. Who will you meet? The workshop intends to bring together different types of expertise regarding freight solutions, covering both the public and private spectrum. More specifically, the workshop attendees will be from the public sector (e.g. governmental representatives, urban planners and transport associations) and the industry (e.g. shippers, transport companies, logistics providers and researchers). Registration There is no attendance fee for all the activities of the BESTFACT workshop, but due to participants’ number limitation, registration is necessary. In the provided registration form, participants are advised to confirm whether they will be attending both or only one of the two days of the workshop, the dinner and the technical visit (at day 1). This information is necessary in order to efficiently organise the transportation details of the event. Register online at: http://www.bestfact.net/events.html. Venue The conference will be held at Lithuanian Railways in Vilnius, Lithuania. Full address: in English: in Lithuanian: Lithuanian Railways Lietuvos geležinkeliai Mindaugo str. 12 Mindaugo Gatvė 12 03603 Vilnius Vilnius 03603 Lithuania Lietuva http://www.litrail.lt (see Map below) How to reach the venue? By air transport Vilnius airport is connected to a number of European cities, the most frequent via Kopenhagen or direct by low cost airlines. Flight and airport information is available at http://www.vilnius- airport.lt/en/flight-information/flight-timetable/ City buses No. 1 and No. 2 provide a service to the airport. The fares and schedules can be found at http://www.vilniustransport.lt A scheduled taxi is a fast way to travel from the airport. The fare price is 3 Litas. A special scheduled train runs between the airport and Vilnius Railway Station. The train fare is 2.5 Litas. The train schedule can be found at http://www.litrail.lt The airport can be reached by cabs of any of the taxi companies servicing the city. A shuttle service can be organized when you indicate it while registering for the event on the BESTFACT website http://www.bestfact.net. By train There is a train connection from Warsaw to Vilnius with change of train in Sestokai and Kaunas crossing the polish-lithuanian border. Timetable at http://rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en By public transportation The venue can be reached by short walking distance from nearby bus stops served from the railway station and the airport. For more information on the route schedules, please consult http://www.vilniustransport.lt By car A parking space can be reserved for you in Getting by car to Lithuania it is reccommended to take the ferry by DFDS Seaways from Karlshamn SE, Sassnitz DE or Kiel DE (http://www.dfdsseaways.com) to Klaipeda LT. Onwards the 310 km long road travel to Vilnius on A1 / E85 takes about 3 hours. From Stockholm Talllink Silja Line (http://www.tallinksilja.com/en) cruise to Riga going onwards 3 h 30 min to Vilnius. Common dinner 19:30 Dinner at Restaurant Tores Adress: Užupio str. 40, 01203 Vilnius Lithuania about 1,2 km from the old town Map Neringa Hotel Novotel Vilnius Centre Restaurant Tores Hotel Artis Centrum Lithuanian Railways head quarter Radisson Blu Astorija Hotel meeting venue Hotel Europa Royal railway station Airport 3km (map source: http://www.openstreetmap.org) Hotel recommendations Novotel Vilnius Centre **** Gedimino prospektas 16, 01103 Vilnius, Lithuania, tel. +370 5 2666200 Single rooms rated 72 – 266 EUR http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-5209-novotel-vilnius-centre/index.shtml walking distance to meeting venue at LitRail: 1,0 km Neringa Hotel **** Gedimino prospektas 23, 01103 Vilnius, Lithuania, tel. +370 5 2681914 Single rooms rated 69 – 124 EUR http://www.neringahotel.com walking distance to meeting venue at LitRail: 1,1 km Radisson Blu Astorija Hotel ***** Didzioji 35/2, 01128 Vilnius – Lithuania; tel. +370 5 2120110 Single rooms rated 114 – 750 EUR http://www.radissonblu.com/hotel-vilnius walking distance to meeting venue at LitRail: 1,2 km Hotel Artis Centrum **** Liejyklos str. 11/23, 01120 Vilnius – Lithuania; tel. +370 5 266 03 66 Single rooms rated 107 – 157 EUR http://www.artis.centrumhotels.com walking distance to meeting venue at LitRail: 0,8 km Hotel Europa Royal **** Aušros Vartų St 6, 01129 Vilnius – Lithuania; tel.: +370 5 2660770 Single rooms rated 79 – 209 EUR http://www.groupeuropa.com/europa_royale/vilnius_hotel walking distance to meeting venue at LitRail: 1,4 km Tourism information on Vilnius can be obtained from http://www.vilnius-tourism.lt/en/tourism. Contact For further information on this workshop, please contact: [email protected] You can also find more information on: http://www.bestfact.net/ status: 15.03.2013 .