PORT ENERGY OPERATIONS AND CLEAN POWER INVESTMENT ANALYSIS TRAINMOS II LOGISTIC PLATFORMS AND ENERGY LOCATION October 2015 José Luis Almazán CONTENTS EVOLUTION OF PORTS LOGISTICS PLATFORM LOGISTICS PLATFORMS IN SPAIN DRY PORTS EVOLUTION OF PORTS Ports evolution has changed its management forms, and could be classified as follows: • Ports conceived to transport goods between land and sea and vice versa, through a local or regional hinterland, unrelated to the socioeconomic environment of the territory where it was located. • Industrial ports, that begin to be seen as a transportation hub and a center of industrial and commercial activity. Services are limited to ships and goods but in its vicinity processing industries are installed. • Ports incorporate logistics functions related to the distribution of goods in services, data processing and use of telecommunications systems, and help to generate added value. LOGISTICS PLATFORM DEFINITION The space located strategically in the territory to act as complementary and central element with the different ways of transportation. These platforms are interspersed inside the network of intermodal traffic of merchandise and they have a mission to serve as a link among the different methods of transportation: railroad‐highway, maritime‐highway, air cargo‐ highway, and their possible combinations. LOGISTICS PLATFORMS Apart from the previous classification, some ports are logistics platforms with security and communications systems at the highest technological level. Also called network ports, are able to integrate into a multimodal transportation network. They have business and management units, and a growth and expansion strategy in common with other ports that are similar. LOGISTICS PLATFORMS IN SPAIN • BARCELONA ZAL is the intermodal logistics platform of the Port of Barcelona. Its aim is to attract maritime traffic with services of logistics infrastructure with added value to the goods. A real logistics hub and economic engine of the city. LOGISTICS PLATFORMS IN SPAIN • TARRAGONA The Port of Tarragona consolidates as the Mediterranean door that brings Chemichal Industry to the world. LOGISTICS PLATFORMS IN SPAIN • VALENCIA The ZAL Port of Valencia will become a multimodal distribution centre for maritime goods logistics completing the logistics offer of the Port of Valencia. DRY PORTS A dry port is an inland intermodal terminal directly connected by road or rail to a seaport and operating as a centre for the transshipment of sea cargo to inland destinations. In Spain, the main dry ports are: ‐ PLAZA: Zaragoza Logistics Platform ‐ Dry Port of Coslada PLAZA: ZARAGOZA LOGISTICS PLATFORM With an area of 13.117.977 m2, the Logistics Platform of Zaragoza (PLAZA) is the largest logistics premises on the European continent. The principle characteristic of PLAZA is that it is based on an intermodal transport centre (railways, roads, and air routes), a combination which activates capacities which make Zaragoza one of the most important logistical cities in Europe, with connections to the most relevant European production and consumer centres. DRY PORT OF MADRID Puerto Seco de Madrid ( Dry Port of Madrid ), has built a railway container terminal in Coslada‐Madrid and has set new rail service between Madrid and spanish ports: Bay of Algeciras, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia. DRY PORT OF MADRID The Puerto Seco de Madrid ( Dry Port of Madrid ) working face accomplishing the following goals: • Increase the "hinterland" and the competitiveness of the ports of Algeciras, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia to improve its connection with the TEN Intermodal. • Leverage the combined transport on the peninsula with direct trains connect the main nodes of the system. • The creation of new scheduled services will favor the emergence of new rail operators under the Community initiative, which will mean a reduction in freight rates and improved quality. • Operational coordination of major ports set to the Dry Port of Madrid Company. The development of joint strategies is enhanced, both for promoting projects of technical harmonization, computer systems, customs clearance, combined transport, etc. as to reach the critical size that allows a better connection of the Spanish network with the European Network, from a perspective of intermodality. • The integration of Dry Port of Madrid within the Logistics Platform Barajas‐Coslada complete intermodal whole, thus becoming the main logistics center of Spain. Thank you for your attention Prof. José Luis Almazán Gárate Port Engineering Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) Head of Port & Maritime Engineering Research Group (UPM) www.gipuertos.es [email protected].