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Seaports in the transport chain

Seaports in the transport chain. The Danish Perspective Jakob Svane, Danish Ports UNECE Transport Committee 2 June 2010 Geneva. Ports and hinterland infrastructure. In any network, the nodes are just as important as the corridors – if not more

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Seaports in the transport chain

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  1. Seaports in the transport chain The Danish Perspective Jakob Svane, Danish Ports UNECE Transport Committee 2 June 2010 Geneva

  2. Ports and hinterland infrastructure In any network, the nodes are just as important as the corridors – if not more Ports and corridors have not been thought together on infrastructural or on statistical level (international, EU, national) Dawning realization on both levels: Ports and terminals are essential

  3. With the huge growth in global trade, ports and their role in the transport chain have moved into the centre of transport debate • Subject to analysis from growing number of academics, the European Commission, UNECE, and others • Hinterland connections a crucial topic • Port volumes are well measured, but what happens afterwards og before? • Impossible to separate debate on hinterland connections from modal split and port related traffic Analyzing ports

  4. Big European container ports – modal split

  5. Big ports measure modal split - small & medium sized ports don’t • National Statistical Bureaus or Eurostat don’t either • How to measure port related traffic on national level? • How to make a genuine national modal split analysis? • Danish Ports has tried Modal split & port related traffic

  6. The Danish Ports More than 125 commercial ports No port above 15 mio. tonnes/year Aarhus largest container port (500.000 TEU) NB for Hamburg No big ports in international comparison – only medium-sized. Ca. 30 significant True network of ports Less economies of scale, but more flexibility

  7. The Danish market Total port turnover / year – ca. 100 million tonnes, 750.000 TEU, 45 million passengers, 1 million tonnes of fish 75 % of Danish external trade volumes 85 % short sea shipping - 15 % deep sea Container is feeder only (with one exception) One of the most developed – and relatively large - ferry and ro-ro markets in the world

  8. No inland waterways, but Intra-Danish shipping is equivalent • National shipping carries ca. 20 % of tonnekilometres in national transport - an increase from 13 % in 1999 • Rail 1 % - road the remaining ca. 80 % • Policy aim of modal shift • Investments in direct hinterland infrastructure The Danish Case

  9. Analysis in National Infrastructure Commission - recommendation for hinterland upgrades- Political decision based on concrete demand – traffic, congestion or port development plans- Direct hinterland connections to 16 ports decided or planned – public spending ca. 750 mln. €- More ports to come- Work on an improved national traffic model, incl. freight traffic model Hinterland connections to Danish ports

  10. Data from 2005 (COWI)- 17 major ports, 60 % of volumes - focus on hinterland infrastructure- Data from 2007 (Bøgetorp) - 21 major ports, 70 % of volumes - focus on markets (tonnes) and traffic - only figures for road and rail- Data from 2009 (Danish Ports, ongoing)- 24 major and minor ports, 45 % of volumes - specific focus on modal split - will repeat in 2011 Three different questionnaires

  11. - Three data-sets comparable - Figures are not exact, only approximate, ”best guess” New analysis by Danish Ports • The close results strengthens validity • However, it is an incomplete modal split…

  12. Modal split of total volumes, Danish ports, 2009 The full picture ”According to Eurostat (…) the previous or next mode of transport for intermodal units” is ”missing on a coordinated basis.” (P.29 in ”Hinterland connections of Seaports”) - But why only focus on intermodal units?

  13. Overall a very valuable input • Focuses on intermodal transport – but there’s more to the transport system than that • Huge difference between container and ro-ro/ferry hinterland traffic – should be better recognized • Distinguishes between short sea shipping and coastal shipping – what is the difference? UNECE report on hinterland connections of seaports – remarks

  14. Port hinterland connections – a tricky issue Various degrees of capacity, traffic and congestion Various solutions & level of difficulty Remove administrative bottlenecks Simple upgrades and/or links Larger projects (tunnels, bridges, highways) Move the port Interport connections (short sea shipping)

  15. ”TODAY”

  16. ”TOMORROW”

  17. Focus on capacity, traffic and congestion, not on port size or turnover • Include all transport modes (incl. sea, pipelines etc.) and types (not only containers) • Take Inter-port connections and environmental aspects into consideration • Not introduce unnecessary bureaucracy Measuring hinterland connection performance should...

  18. Thank you Jks@danskehavne.dk www.danishports.com

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