THE potential of North Range Baltic short sea shipping has been slashed with more freight expected to be diverted to trucking when low-sulphur fuel mandates take effect January 1.
This one conclusion of a study done by the Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM) and the Bremen's Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) on the existing and future potential of short sea shipping to and from the Baltic Sea region.
Because of the imposition of stringent sulphur emission regulations, the study forecasts a freight shift onto exempt ferries (from which the Baltic short sea shipping already faces tough competition) or onto the roads.
The 2020/2030 base outlook anticipates a 10 per cent drop in containerised short sea volumes to 2020 and returning to 2012 levels in 10 years or more.
The study also investigated the main challenges for a wider use of 45-foot long containers, all of this as HHM's contribution to the TransBaltic Extension project, the reported Florida's Maritime Executive magazine.
In estimating the share of short sea-land traffic in the overall container volumes, the ISL found out that in 2012 the total containerised shortsea-land traffic between North Range ports and BSR amounted to about 1.1 million TEU, with an additional 200,000 TEU within the Baltic area itself (roughly the same as in 2011).
Long-distance short sea shipping services cut out the biggest share, eg North Range-Russia up to almost 600,000 TEU, followed by traffic to/from Sweden and Finland (each with 15,000 TEU).
The use of 45-foot boxes oscillated in 2012 at nearly five million TEU across the whole North Range-BSR container trades (89,000 TEU in Baltic alone).
WORLD SHIPPING
10 September 2014 - 03:21
Short sea trade cut by low-sulphur mandate in North Range-Baltic: study
THE potential of North Range Baltic short sea shipping has been slashed with more freight expected to be diverted to trucking when low-sulphur fuel mandates take effect January 1.
WORLD SHIPPING
10 September 2014 - 03:21
Short sea trade cut by low-sulphur mandate in North Range-Baltic: study
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