Inland Waterway transport Challenges and Perspectives

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1 Inland Waterway transport Challenges and Perspectives Gerhard Gussmagg GET- Symposium Rotterdam, Oct 01, 2015

2 Agenda 1 2 Presentation of the Rhenus Group Inland waterway transport practical experiences 2

3 We live to provide services for several hundreds of thousands of customers every day RETHMANN-Group A group with a turnover of more than 12.0 bn* and a workforce of 63,000* Water- and Lifecycle Public Private Partnership Company Partnership Disposal and Recycling Plants and Production Logistics Contract Logistics Freight Logistics Port Logistics Public Transport Bio-Industry Food additives Primary products for fodder Cosmetic additives New energy sources Fertilisers Turnover*: 6.4 bn. Employees*: 31,200 Turnover*: 4.2 bn. Employees*: 25,000 Turnover*: 1.6 bn Employees*: 6,800 * Consolidated figures for

4 We are growing in line with your demands As a family business, our thinking is dictated by the long term, we want to develop partnerships and provide reliability, stability and continuity. 4

5 Our locations in Sea- and Inland Ports Present at all important European waterways Own terminals at the large sea ports Own port operation Large network In backcountry Own areas and halls at all the important locations Inland Ports Sea Ports 5

6 Selected Sea Ports Nordenham Cuxhaven Hamburg Rotterdam Wilhelmshaven Bremen 6

7 Selected Inland Ports Basel Duisburg Hanau Mannheim Hille Stuttgart Hildesheim Krems Nancyport SAS 7

8 Our offers in detail - multimodal transport options Rail Inland navigation Short Sea Shipping Road Private railway enterprise with own locomotives and wagons Vessel fleet of 350 units with up to tons capacity per convoy Daily up to 60 vessels in operation Fleet of more than 180 own trucks. Up to 500 vehicles of subcontractors 8

9 Agenda 1 2 Presentation of the Rhenus Group Inland waterway transport practical experiences 9

10 Challenges for a company operating on the Rhine-Main-Danube corridor Free flowing sections - fluctuating water levels 50 locks between Rhine and Danube Average transport distance 2.000km - transit time 2-3 weeks Heterogenous fleet: self propelled vessels vs. pushed convoys 10 Danube riparian countries with different languages and regimes No full coverage of state-of-the-art information and communication technology 10

11 Infrastructure bottlenecks along the Danube Source: EU-strategy for the Danube Region, priority 1a mobility and multimodality: inland waterway navigation 11

12 Fluctuating water levels Wildungsmauer (between Vienna and Bratislava) HNW 564 LNW 162 HNW : Highest navigable water level LNW: Lowest navigable water level 12

13 Consequences Complex logistics planning No full usage of capacities = higher costs Lack of capacities in terms of transport equipment (barges) and port capacities (transshipment) Need for multimodal integration (combination with truck and rail transport) Need for innovation (education, fleet, IT) 13

14 Danube as a backbone for development of cargo flows towards Black Sea Russia Turkey Middle East 14

15 Gerhard Gussmagg Head of Sales Department Rhenus Logistics Austria GmbH Karl-Mierka-Straße 7-9, A-3500 Krems Office:

16 Since 1912

17 INLAND WATERWAYS

18 SCENARIO Exporting goods via the Danube

19 ROBUST PLANNING Optimize resource usage Minimize probability of re-planning

20 INTEGRATED MONITORING No matter how robust our planning is we need integrated monitoring and prediction: traffic congestion -> ETA lock status -> delay

21 ONLINE PLANNING No matter how robust our planning is we may need to re-plan.

22 TRUCK MATCHING

23 7 DEMO

24 CONCLUSION planners are encouraged to choose multi-modal options, by: avoiding disruptions facilitating planners when running into disruptions anyway functions in this scenario support Fuel and CO 2 efficiency Planner efficiency 8