Freight Market Structure and Requirements for Intermodal Shifts Project no.TREN/06/FP6TR/S07.60148 FREIGHTWISE Management Framework for Intelligent Intermodal Transport Integrated Project (IP) Sustainable surface transport - Rebalancing and integrating different transport modes Deliverable 11.1 ‘Freight Market Structure and Requirements for Intermodal Shifts’ Due date of deliverable: 31/05/07 Actual submission date: 09/07/07 Start date of project: 31/10/2006 Duration: 36M Organisation name of lead contractor for this deliverable: AMRIE, Walter Vassallo Revision [Final] Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002- 2006) Dissemination Level PU Public PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission RE Restrictedi) to a group specified by the consortium (including the Confidential,ii onlyi) for members of the consortium (including the CO Commission Services) 1 Freight Market Structure and Requirements for Intermodal Shifts Document Title: WP Deliverabl Document number: e number: number: WP11 ‘Freight market structure and WP11 D11.1 1 requirements for intermodal shifts’ Document Version Comments Date Authorised History by 0.1 First distributed 2007-10-24 kef 1.0 Final 1.5 RESUBMISSION 2.0 Revised Walter Vassallo 2008-04-16 WV 2.5 Joined With SETREF contr ch 7 & 8 2008-04-17 SAW 2007-10-24 Classificati Public on: Number of pages: 162 Number of annexes: 6 2 Freight Market Structure and Requirements for Intermodal Shifts Main Author and WP Leader: Walter Vassallo, AMRIE Authors and Contributors: Annalisa Alcinesio, AMRIE Irina Roussina, AMRIE Chris Rowland, MDST Tony Morall, BMT Eva Gelova, CDV Ioan Cuncev, SETREF Elli Krassopoulou, SETREF Csaba Orosz, SETREF Dimitar Stoyanov, SETREF Smiljan Vukanovic, SETREF 3 Freight Market Structure and Requirements for Intermodal Shifts TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................ 7 1 Executive Summary ........................................................................................................... 8 2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 15 2.1 Freightwise ................................................................................................................. 15 2.2 Context ....................................................................................................................... 15 2.3 Workpackage 11 ......................................................................................................... 16 3 Definition and analysis of the macro transport economic environment ........................... 18 3.1 The Intermodal Market ............................................................................................... 18 3.2 The Main Intermodal Actors ...................................................................................... 19 3.2.1 Freight Forwarders ............................................................................................. 20 3.2.1.1 Operator description ......................................................................... 20 3.2.1.2 Market description ........................................................................... 22 3.2.1.3 The Difference between a Freight Forwarder and a Broker: Why It Matters 24 3.2.2 The Shippers ...................................................................................................... 25 3.2.2.1 Operator description ......................................................................... 25 3.2.2.2 Market description ........................................................................... 25 3.2.3 Freight Villages ................................................................................................. 26 3.2.3.1 Operator description ......................................................................... 26 3.2.3.2 Market description ........................................................................... 27 3.3 The Freight Integrating Services and their Impacts on the Intermodal Market .......... 28 3.3.1 Freight Integrators ............................................................................................. 28 3.3.2 Development of Third and Fourth Party Logistics Providers ............................ 29 3.4 Main Hard and Soft Modal Shift Drivers ................................................................... 31 3.5 Requirements from the Intermodal Transport Users .................................................. 34 3.5.1 Infrastructure...................................................................................................... 34 3.5.2 Motorways of the Sea ........................................................................................ 34 3.5.3 Open up the Rail Market .................................................................................... 35 3.5.4 Market Access to Port Services: ........................................................................ 35 4 ICT ................................................................................................................................... 35 4.1 A Strategy for Improving the Use of ICT .................................................................. 35 4.2 Opportunities for SME’s provided by a wider use of ICT ......................................... 36 4.3 FREIGHTWISE contribution ..................................................................................... 37 5 Trades, Traffic and Corridors Scenario ............................................................................ 38 5.1 Intermodal Corridors and Foreseen Logistics Development Scenario ....................... 38 5.1.1 Potential of Intermodal Transport ...................................................................... 38 5.1.2 Definition of Corridors ...................................................................................... 39 5.1.3 Identification of Corridors ................................................................................. 40 5.1.4 Existing and New Corridors .............................................................................. 41 5.1.4.1 Current Corridors ............................................................................. 41 5.1.4.2 Potential New Corridors .................................................................. 44 5.1.5 Trade Data for European Corridors ................................................................... 45 5.2 The Role of Logistics in Europe for the Future Development of Trade and Transport Flows .................................................................................................................................... 46 5.2.1 Transport Growth – Trends for Intermodality ................................................... 46 5.2.2 Multimodal transport ......................................................................................... 46 5.2.3 Development of the European Logistics Market ............................................... 51 5.2.4 Trends in Service Development ......................................................................... 51 6 The Size of the Potential European International Intermodal Market .............................. 55 6.1.1 Objective & scope .............................................................................................. 55 6.1.2 Methodology ...................................................................................................... 55 4 Freight Market Structure and Requirements for Intermodal Shifts 6.2 European Intermodal Market Size 2005 ..................................................................... 56 6.2.1 Trade by Member State in Tonnes ..................................................................... 56 6.2.1.1 Intra-EU trade .................................................................................. 56 6.2.1.2 Extra-EU Trade ................................................................................ 58 6.3 Intra-EU27 Trade by Commodity .............................................................................. 59 6.3.1 Total Trade between Member States ................................................................. 59 6.3.1.1 Estimated unitised trade between Member States ........................... 60 6.4 Extra-EU27 imports by commodity ........................................................................... 60 6.4.1 Total imports ...................................................................................................... 61 6.4.2 Estimated unitised imports ................................................................................ 61 6.5 Extra-EU27 exports by commodity ............................................................................ 61 6.5.1 Total exports ...................................................................................................... 62 6.5.2 Estimated Unitised Exports ............................................................................... 62 6.6 Overall Statistical Conclusions and Considerations ................................................... 63 7 The impact from Enlargement on the Intermodal Market ................................................ 64 7.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 64 7.2 The Main Changes in Period of Access Negotiations 1996 – 2003 ..........................