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A SUCCESSFUL SHIFT TOWARDS RAIL AND INLAND WATERWAY CRAFT LEADS TO SUBSTANTIAL RELIEF FOR HIGHWAYS AND CORRESPONDING REDUCTION OF EMISSIONS
A ‘Plus’ for inland waterway craft and rail
‘Hamburg-NRWplus’ has united two German states in a single aim. The inter-state cooperation project aims to boost hinterland transport services and improve the modal split. With political support, business is developing measures to unleash the potential for shifting traffic to inland waterways and rail.
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For the Port of Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is the most important German state, after Ba- varia, for containerized hinterland services. Around 500,000 TEU per year are transported between the two states. For distances between 200 and 500 kilo- metres, the trucking share currently exceeds 80 per- cent. Rail runs mainly to Dortmund, Minden, Warstein and Bönen, inland waterway craft only to Minden. Eastern NRW has so far barely been served at all by trains or inland waterway craft. This demonstrates the urgency of transferring services by road to rail and inland waterways.
RELIEVING HIGHWAYS
Initiated by the NDR Ministry of Transport and the State of Hamburg’s Ministry of Economics, Trans-
port & Innovation, ‘Hamburg-NRWplus’ aims to join trade & industry in identifying weak points that hin- der increased use of rail and inland waterway craft and to stimulate measures to eliminate these ob- stacles. A successful shift towards rail and inland waterway craft would lead to substantial relief for highways and corresponding reduction of emis- sions.
Port of Hamburg Marketing and Planco Consulting are responsible for implementing and jointly docu- menting the project. The project management sup- ports the core team consisting of its two initiators plus Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) that aims to ef- ficiently control and process project elements. The project organization is completed by an expert panel drawn from 14 companies from the logistics
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