The SuperGreen project promotes the environmentally friendly development of Europe’s main freight corridors. The project evaluates main transport routes across Europe in terms of their “greening potential”. Based on a defined set of criteria the 9 most promising freight corridors were selected. These will be analysed in detail in order to develop targeted measures for their further development. The Rhine/Meuse-Main-Danube corridor was high-ranked and will be in the focus of future SuperGreen activities. [more]

The SuperGreen project promotes the environmentally friendly development of Europe’s main freight corridors. The project evaluates main transport routes across Europe in terms of their “greening potential”. Based on a defined set of criteria the 9 most promising freight corridors were selected. These will be analysed in detail in order to develop targeted measures for their further development. The Rhine/Meuse-Main-Danube corridor was high-ranked and will be in the focus of future SuperGreen activities.

The Super Green project provides support for the development of sustainable transport networks across Europe. In order to reach this objective, SuperGreen is developing a methodology for benchmarking Green Corridors and identifying areas for improvements. Future  activities include the analysis of innovative technologies, the definition of more efficient ways to exploit information and communication technologies and recommendations for future research and development.

The objective in the first project phase was to select corridors with high greening potential according to a defined set of criteria. The nine selected corridors are listed in the first SuperGreen report, which is now available for download on the project website: www.supergreenproject.eu/info.html. The ranking determines the most favourable corridors for the definition of key performance indicators, best practises and measures for greening transport corridors. The high-ranked Rhine-Main-Danube waterway will be included in the in-depth analysis.

Source: SuperGreen, Editorial: Simon Hartl

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PLATINA has launched an innovative manual presenting good practises in sustainable waterway planning. The document provides guidelines for planning waterway development projects that are compatible with environmental protection requirements, creating a win-win harmony. It offers general advice for waterway infrastructure projects and addresses both technical planners and other interested stakeholders who want to be involved in a waterway development planning process. [more]

PLATINA has launched an innovative manual presenting good practises in sustainable waterway planning. The document provides guidelines for planning waterway development projects that are compatible with environmental protection requirements, creating a win-win harmony. It offers general advice for waterway infrastructure projects and addresses both technical planners and other interested stakeholders who want to be involved in a waterway development planning process.

The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) has co-ordinated the production of the Manual, which is the result of a consultative process between waterway operators and managers, and environmental organisations. According to Philip Weller, Executive Secretary of ICPDR: “This new planning tool will substantially enhance and smoothen communication between the transport and environment sectors.” To Mr Weller, the public discussions make it clear that “there is a strong need to guide future actions with an eye to reconciling what might be conflicting interests. Some innovative processes and measures have shown that it is indeed possible to create win-win solutions for environment, transport and other river uses.”

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 Manual on Good Practices in Sustainable Waterway Planning
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Source: PLATINA, Photo credits: Robert Tögel, Editorial: Caroline Smith

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In the Port of Riesa, at the German Elbe, a modern logistics warehouse has recently been constructed for Goodyear Dunlop Tires Germany GmbH by the port authority. The tire producer can now organise its logistics chains via the new facility which is situated next to the company’s production site. Due to its location within the port, an optimal integration of inland navigation into the logistics chain can be guaranteed. [more]

In the Port of Riesa, at the German Elbe, a modern logistics warehouse has recently been constructed for Goodyear Dunlop Tires Germany GmbH by the port authority. The tire producer can now organise its logistics chains via the new facility which is situated next to the company’s production site. Due to its location within the port, an optimal integration of inland navigation into the logistics chain can be guaranteed.

The construction of the logistics warehouse is a further step in optimising the modal mix within the company’s logistics processes. Goodyear Dunlop Tires can now also organise its internal logistics flows more efficiently. In the year 2012 the company plans to produce up to 20,000 tires a year in Riesa.

The new facility was built by the port authority, Sächsische Binnenhäfen Oberelbe GmbH, on former wasteland and let to the international company on a long term contract. Goodyear Dunlop has the opportunity of managing both the delivery of raw materials as well as the transport of the produced tires via inland vessel, rail or truck according to actual requirements and destinations.

Source: ShortSeaShipping Inland Waterway Promotion Centre (SPC), www.goodyear.de, Editorial: Simon Hartl

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Three years ago, Mercedes-Benz finalised the last expansion phase at its international shipping centre in the Port of Stuttgart. Today more than 100 containers, stuffed with axles, engines and gear units produced at the production plan in Stuttgart / Untertürkheim are shipped to contractual partners around the globe every week. In this inland navigation plays an important role. The upgrading of locks along the river Neckar will provide a further incentive for the use of inland waterways. [more]

Three years ago, Mercedes-Benz finalised the last expansion phase at its international shipping centre in the Port of Stuttgart. Today more than 100 containers, stuffed with axles, engines and gear units produced at the production plan in Stuttgart / Untertürkheim are shipped to contractual partners around the globe every week. In this inland navigation plays an important role. The upgrading of locks along the river Neckar will provide a further incentive for the use of inland waterways.

The 35,000 m² Mercedes-Benz shipping centre in the Port of Stuttgart bundles all the international shipping activities of the company. Its closeness to the multimodal container terminal and other existing transhipment facilities enable the company to choose the most suitable mode of transport for each shipment. They do this based on logistical and economic requirements as well as from an environmental point of view.

90 per cent of all shipments are carried out via rail and inland vessels. Inland navigation accounts for 27 per cent of all transports to the sea ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. Since the shipping centre was opened in 2004, the use of rail transport and inland waterways has enabled the plant to save around 4,500 long-haul road trips each year to the ports of Bremerhaven and Rotterdam. As a result of these savings, CO 2 emissions were reduced by more than 16,000 tons.

Volker Stauch, director of the Untertürkheim plant, emphasises that the development of the site has clear environmental aims. “For the Daimler AG, environmental compatibility is a crucial concern, but it's not the only one. Ensuring sustainable manufacturing and logistics is also a high priority,” says Stauch.

The importance of inland navigation will increase once the scheduled modernisation of locks along the river Neckar is finalised. This “upgrading” allows vessels of the 135-metre-class, a size which is very common for Rhine navigation, to sail to the Port of Stuttgart, thereby increasing the freight capacity of the current 105-metre-vessels by 40 per cent.

Source: Internationales Verkehrswesen Nr. 7/8 2010, http://media.daimler.com, Editorial: Simon Hartl

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On Friday, 13 August 2010, a new container line service was launched on the Danube in Budapest. The first container barge arrived in the Hungarian capital on schedule and was attached to a convoy proceeding downstream to Belgrade and Constanta. This new service provided by the Helogistics Holding GmbH creates an opportunity to transport containers on the Danube from Central Europe to the Black Sea according to a fixed schedule. [more]

On Friday, 13 August 2010, a new container line service was launched on the Danube in Budapest. The first container barge arrived in the Hungarian capital on schedule and was attached to a convoy proceeding downstream to Belgrade and Constanta. This new service provided by the Helogistics Holding GmbH creates an opportunity to transport containers on the Danube from Central Europe to the Black Sea according to a fixed schedule.

Last week’s launch of the container line HELO 1 created the first regular container service, which operates weekly deliveries to the ports of Budapest, Belgrade and Constanta. The barge can also be used for project cargo up to 250 tons.

The first departure on the 25 August 2010 from Constanta will mark the start for the service in the upstream direction. From that time on there will be weekly passages in both directions using container barges offering a capacity of 144 TEU.

Source: www.helogistics.at, Editorial: Helogistics

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