Blue modal shift – urban and regional waterborne transport
The NÖKS II project (Närsjöfart i Öresund – Kattegat – Skagerrak) will contribute to a more environmentally friendly and low-carbon transport system in the region, while also developing and enhancing the maritime transport system and encouraging the transfer of freight from road to sea. This will be achieved by developing solutions, tools and techniques to improve the quality and environmental performance of shipping services through the development of cost-effective, secure, flexible and competitive short sea shipping concepts. The project will end in the second half of 2018.
- 21 partners
- 3 countries
- Private, public and academic sector involved
- Financiers: Interreg, Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak, European Regional Development Fund, Västra Götalandsregionen, Fyrbodal, Region Skåne
- Starting 2015 and running till the end in the second half of 2018.
SSPA coordinates 21 partners in three countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). The project is divided into three major tasks. The first main task focuses on developing ports. The second main task aims to develop the concept of a fine-grid, flexible and competitive distribution system adapted for short sea shipping and, in some cases, inland waterways. This involves developing vessel concepts and logistics solutions. In the final work package, the aim is to increase performance of the short sea shipping system by developing innovative ICT logistics concepts.
Read more at the project web noks2.com
Contacts
Ph.D. (Tech. Management and Economics), M.Sc. (Mech. Eng.), M.Sc. (Business Admin.)
Demo tests for urban waterways and city logistics
During the spring, several projects are performing demo tests with the goal to develop the potential of inland waterways and city logistics in Sweden. SSPA is involved in several of these projects and our experts in logistics and shipping have knowledge to share. Waterways in urban areas have unused capacity which could be used for transport of people, goods and waste.
Demonstrating the use of urban and inland waterways
Demonstrating new logistics solutions is shown to be an important step for gaining understanding of system prerequisites for commercialisation, both with regard to technical issues such as vessel design characteristics and cargohandling equipment, and social matters such as the importance of practitioner involvement and the evaluation of performance criteria.
Focus on Blue Modal Shift
In the NÖKS II project, SSPA coordinates partners in three countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). The project’s main objective is to contribute to a more environmentally friendly and low-carbon transport system in the region, while also developing and enhancing the maritime transport system and encouraging the transfer of freight from road to sea.
Modal shift to Short Sea Shipping in the Sound, Kattegat and Skagerrak
There are clear objectives and requirements in both the EU’s environmental, climate and transport policies and in the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish national and regional strategies that harmful emissions caused by transport must be reduced.