Sea-river shipping - Baltnautic Shipping LTD

Sea-river shipping - Baltnautic Shipping LTD

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Sea-river shipping
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sendaal
Den Bosch
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B R A B A N T
Eindhoven
Breda
Sailing into Europe
EN
134 m
12.5 m
3.4
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6.7
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1500/2000
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vessels do not normally exceed 3,000 dwt,
with draughts limited to 5 m and bridge
container transport is now on the increase.➔
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LIMBURG
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Genk
Maastricht
ANTWERP
Antwerpen
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
clearance to 9 m. They generally carry
conventional and bulk loads, although
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restrictions of rivers and canals. Sea-river
BRABANT
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specifications such as draught, height and
length, relating to the navigational
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waters. Sea-river vessels share certain
VLAAMS
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one vessel, sailing both coastal and inland
Albert Canal
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage
Turnhout
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Sea-river shipping is one of the forms of
shortsea transport. Its concept is simple:
ANTWERPEN
Antwerpen
Belgium
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MEU
OOSTCharleroi
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Zeekanaal: Schelde till Ruisbroek 240 m
Puurs
Puurs
VLAAM
SCHELDE
ANDEREN
24
m
8.80 m
44
m
10000
BRABA
BRUSSEL
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Zeekanaal: Ruisbroek till Brussel (Voorhaven)
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
200
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5.80
33.4
4500
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m
m
m
Tees
Stockton on
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Middlesborough
YORKSHIRE
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York
Goole
Leeds
Hull
HUMBER
Huddersfield
Doncaster
United Kingdom
LINCOLN
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
110 m
24.5 m
5.5
m
n.v.t.
3000/4000
Sheffield
port
SHIRE
Mansfield
DERBY
SHIRE
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Nottingham
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King’s Lynn
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FORD
Derby
Leiden
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ZUIDHOLLAND UTRECHT
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Utrecht
Delft
RIJN
Enschede
LAND
Nijmegen
Emmerich
MAAS
The Netherlands
Den Bosch
Breda
135 m
12
m
3
m
6.15 m
1000/1500
ANTWERPEN
Antwerpen
Turnhout
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KALBE
NA RT
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VLAAMS
Oberhausen
LIMBURG
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Ess
Duisburg
Krefeld
D sseldor
IN
Juliana Canal
N O
Tilburg
B R A B A N T
Eindhoven
RH
Maas
135 m
12
m
3
m
6.8
m
1000/1500
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N O O R D -
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The main advantage of sea-river shipping is its
unique market range. Sea-river vessels can
connect the hinterland with overseas destinations
without the need for intermediate transhipment.
This results in lower transport costs and a
reduced risk of damage caused by additional
handling.
Minimum total load for transportation is about a
1,000 tons. However, since separate holds enable
sea-river vessels to carry various types of cargo at
the same time, there is tremendous flexibility in
how the total can be made up. There is also the
added benefit of floating stock - reducing the
need for storage in the company's silo or
warehouse. And finally, apart from being cheaper,
transportation by water is also environmentally
friendly. ➔
Arnhem
Gorinchem
BERGSE
The advantages
GELDER-
Apeldoorn
Amersfoort
Gouda
LEK
Dordrecht
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
OVERIJSSEL
NETHERLANDS
terdam
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Humber till Goole
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LIMBURG
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Gladbach
Heerlen
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Maastricht
Aachen
Sea-river shipping in Europe
The European sea-river fleet (Eastern Europe not
included) comprises about 400 vessels at an
average deadweight capacity of 2,000 dwt.
The Dutch fleet, currently about 80 vessels, is
steadily growing. ➔
Portugal
Douro till Sardouro
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
87
m
11.4 m
3.9
m
7.5
m
2000/2500
GÄVLE
BORG
RG
Karlstad
ÖSTER
Falun
Mariestad
dvika
Vänersborg
Uddevalla
GÖTEBORG
& BOHUS
Sweden
Borås
Göteborg
ERAK
JÖNKÖ
LAGAN
BORG
Varberg HALLAND
KATTE
Halmstad
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Västerås
EBRO
Trollhättan Canal
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
Uppsala
arlskoga
88
m
13.2 m
5.4
m
27
m
3000/4000
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HOLM
VÄST Sala
MANLAND
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Jönköp
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UPPSALA
Avesta
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SKARA
BORG
Gävle
Stockholm
Sweden
Mälären Lake
(Väsateras,
Södertälje, Köping)
Eskilstuna
Örebro
Nyköping
Norrköping
tad
BA
ÖSTERGÖTTLAND
SKARA
Linköping
Visby
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
135
19.6
7.5
41
9000
m
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m
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possibilities seaM nster
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Born
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Krefeld
Hagen
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Wuppertal
Solingen
LIMBURG
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Bochum
Duisburg
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Gladbach
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Dortmund
Oberhausen
Venlo
VLAAMS
W E S T F A L E N
Heerlen
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Germany
Maastricht
Aachen
Li ge
Vila Real
DOURO
Charleroi Namur
MEUS
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DOURO
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Bonn
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Matosinhos
Porto (Leixoes)
Villa Nova de Gaia
Hamm
Turnhout
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Braga
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N O R D R H E I N -
Tilburg
B R A B A N T
Eindhoven
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KALBE
NA RT
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Guimar es
RH
Den Bosch
ANTWERPEN
Antwerpen
P voa de Varzim
Emmerich
N O O R D Breda
MINHO
Viana do Castelo
Nijmegen
MAAS
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G E R M A N Y
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Bastogne
Koblenz
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LUXEMBOURG
Wiesbaden
Mainz
LUXEMBOURG
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LUXEMBOURG
Thionville
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Kaiserslautern
Darmstadt
Gernsheim
Worms
Kaiserslautern Mannheim
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Mainz
Gernsheim
Worms
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Trier
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Trier
Arlon
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Frankfurt
am Main
Darmstadt
Viseu
RHEIN
Aveiro
Frankfurt
am Main
Wiesbaden
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Koblenz
Ovar
Upper Rhine Central Rhine Lower Rhine
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Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
SAARLAND
Heidelberg
Saarbr cken
Germersheim
Karlsruhe
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A L S A C E
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
110 m
11.4 m
2.5
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6.8
m
1000/1500
110 m
14
m
2.5
m
8.3
m
1000/1500
135 m
22.4 m
3.5
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9.1
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2000/4000
Mikkeli
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Finland
Lappeenranta
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Imatra
Vyborg
Saima Canal
Karhula
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St. Pe
Dunkerque
Calais
Dieppe
France
St. Quenti
Amiens
Seine till Gennevilliers (Paris)
P I C A R D I E
Le Havre
Rouen
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Compiègne
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Paris
O R M A N D I E
82
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11.8 m
4.3
m
24.5 m
2000/2500
B E L G
Roubaix Brusse
(Bruxel
Boulogne
Lille
Béthune
Douai
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PAS-DE-CALAIS
Valencie
Arras
H A N N
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
MARNE
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Versailles
ILE-DE-FRANCE
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length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
120 m
15.5 m
3.5
m
8.7
m
1500/2000
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rmontrand
Annecy
Lyon
St. Etienne
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France
Valence
PROVENCE-ALPES
Avignon
Nimes
Mon
CÔTE D’AZUR
Aix en Provence
Montpellier
QUEDOC
Sète
GOLFE
Marseille
Toulon
length
width
draught
air draught
tonnage*
* dependent of the water-level
-river shipping
Rhône
Saône
135 m
11.4 m
3
m
6.2
m
1000/1500
135 m
11.4 m
3
m
5.1
m
1000/1500
Future
Geographic reach
This brochure contains an
overview of sea-river shipping
options within Europe.
Although there are other
shipping options apart from the
canals and rivers indicated,
these are only navigable by a
small number of special seariver vessels.
The Humber in England and the
Trollhattan canal in Sweden are
also navigable, either fulllength or in part, by conventional coaster. So is the Nene
river and a few ports close to
its estuary. Although Russia has
many rivers allowing navigation
by sea-river vessels, this is at
present restricted to vessels
under the Russian flag.
With its abundance of waterways, our country the
Netherlands has a number of
rivers and canals such as the
Rhine, Maas and IJssel rivers
and the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal,
all of which are accessible to
sea-river vessels. However, the
existence of navigable waterways is not enough in itself:
loading and unloading
terminals are also required.
For this reason, the
development of so-called ROCs
(Dutch for Regional
Transhipment Centres) is
important. Already there are
ROCs in Kampen, Heijen, Stein
and Oss, mainly for container
loading and unloading
purposes, but also for handling
sea-river vessels with
conventional loads. ➔
Type of load
Sea-river vessels carry mainly
bulk loads such as coal, grain,
raw building materials and
fertilizer. They also carry neobulk loads such as steel, steel
products, sawn timber and
paper, and are used for
container transportation.
The two major users of seariver shipping are the German
steel industry, which is
concentrated in the Ruhr area,
and the Swedish and Finnish
timber industries. These regions
of origin are determining the
predominant transport pattern
in this market. Steel products
flow downstream on the Rhine,
while Scandinavian timber and
paper products go upstream,
both destined for all parts of
Europe. Transportation of bulk
products such as grain and ore,
in the form of return loads from
the Ruhr area and to Scandinavia, is also considerable. ➔
Although sea-river transport
has been a forgotten market
segment for some time, we
have recently been witnessing
renewed and considerable
investment in this area, with
various (Dutch) shipping
companies placing orders for
new sea-river ships. New
technology has
resulted in increased
bridge clearance
and lower draught
developments,
which have made a
growing number of
European inland destinations
more easily accessible.
Trends in shipbuilding
often lead to bigger
vessels, but this
would be counterproductive for this
type of coastal
shipping as increased
size would almost certainly
result in a decrease in shipping
reach. The new generation of
sea-river vessels is also smaller
by tonnage. An example of a
new type of sea-river vessel is
printed on the back, showing a
vessel measuring 80 metres in
length, 6.3 metres in height and
1,700 dwt in tonnage, all at
just 3.4 metres draught.
Moreover, its box-shaped hold
makes it suitable for all types
of load, including containers. ➔
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