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