The paper discusses a number of processes and direct or indirect occurrences that will cause delay to the availability of infrastructures, availability of cargo or to the vessel itself. These include late arrival of a seagoing vessel, unavailability of berth, infrastructure capacity restraints, survey or inspection requirements. Administration matters and regulatory issues can also prevent a vessel from loading or leaving incurring long delays if not rectified. The paper recognises that though some of these delays are unavoidable, many can be predicted, or if known in advance could facilitate a change in logistics planning. The paper highlights a number of obstacles for short sea shipping and the need for more transparency in information that up to now has been considered commercially confidential. The recommendations draw attention to using the experience gained of services such as PortNet to integrate European ports at a regional level and through inter-regional exchange to fulfil pan-European interoperability. It recommends to survey information requirements that can impact directly or indirectly on inland and short sea shipping, survey information tools that are already within domain systems, and to design a new information tools that extract the information required from each domain and presents them within a multidiscipline data tool to optimise strategic and tactical planning for berths, vessels and infrastructures.
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Author: Gert-Jan Muilerman; Copyright: Euronautech; Published by: Gert-Jan Muilerman (Muilerman) factID: 229131.1; published on 27 Jan. 2006 15:10
