Rhine-Alpine News
14.03.2024
InnoWaTr Freight Flow Coalitions in Germany
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A new type of overarching cooperation known as Freight Flow Coalitions will aid modal transition. Twenty-five project partners from business and science are now collaborating on this across boundaries. Experts from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany are collaborating in the EU-funded sustainability initiative.
As part of the InnoWaTr initiative, eight “real-life experiments” are planned, two of which will take place in northern Germany. In Hamburg, for example, an urban shuttle supply system for retailers will be tested in the Überseequartier in Hamburg’s HafenCity district.
Such projects can only succeed through extremely close cooperation among all those concerned, which is precisely why so-called Freight Flow Coalitions, in which the participants work closely together, will operate as the driving force behind the whole affair.
The latest conference of the European innovation initiative, held in Hamburg, focused on these Freight Flow Coalitions, or FFCs, and their special job, function, and cooperation under this shared ‘coalition umbrella’.
Kühne Logistics University, one of the project’s scientific partners, hosted the meeting.
A topic of discussion at the North German project meeting was the conditions under which a fixed container line by barge between Bremerhaven and Hamburg could be implemented. To guarantee that the measure is approved, consider whether the anticipated long-term increased value can justify greater expenses in certain instances. Bremenports GmbH & Co. KG’s tasks within the overall project are not so much to implement a specific real-life experiment, but to create a kind of “instruction manual” for establishing similar freight flow coalitions and projects elsewhere.
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Waterway: micro-corridors for speedier large and heavy goods transports
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The German BMDV and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia are starting a prototype wind farm project in Hochsauerland. In a joint pilot project with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs (BMDV) is now experimenting with permanent and short-term permits for certain routes to carry large and heavy items more easily and rapidly.
In addition, special proposals are being developed for linking road permits for pre- and on-carriage in the nationwide application and authorization mechanism VEMAGS. The pilot project is taking done at wind farms in the Hochsauerland area.
The utilisation of rivers for large and heavy cargo is a critical component of transport policy. Waterways have plenty of free capacity, and transporting by inland waterway saves a lot of CO2. In addition, waterways do not require authorization for Large and heavy goods transports (GST), which require a permit to travel on a specified route by road. Wind turbine components, cable drums, and other commodities needed for the energy transition should be transported by inland waterways wherever possible.
The pilot project was initiated on March 1, 2024. The results should be ready by summer 2024. The approach would engage industry associations as well as GST stakeholders.
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