Chapter 2 transportation modalities inland waterway

Petersburg, Astrakhan, Rostov-on-Don Neva, Don, Volga Inland ports with a major multi modal hinterland: • Duisburg, Frankfurt • Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade • Zaporizhzhia, Dniepropetrovsk

MODALITIES

PRESENTED BY: BICH HOAI, MSc

Geography

Sea ports with major IWT hinterland:

• Rotterdam, Antwerp (Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt and beyond)

• Hamburg, Bremen (Weser, Elbe and beyond)

• Constantza (Danube and beyond)

• Odessa (Dniepr)

• St Petersburg, Astrakhan, Rostov-on-Don (Neva, Don, Volga)

Inland ports with a major multi modal hinterland:

• Duisburg, Frankfurt

• Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade

• Zaporizhzhia, Dniepropetrovsk, Kiev, Brest ?

• Volgograd

Geography

Main Atlantic seaports:

New York, Boston, New Port.

Main Pacific seaports:

Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach Main Gulf seaport:

New Orleans.

Main inland ports:

Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City.

Geography

Europe: Rhine - Danube PRC: Yangtze RegionGeography

Geography

Geography: Vietnam

• 41,000 km Natural waterway

• 8,000km: Commercial trade

• VN Inland waterway administration: manage 6,000km river terminal

Geography: Vietnam

Red river Dong Nai river Saigon river.

Mekong river

Geography: Vietnam

Geography: Vietnam, Mekong Delta

Geography: Vietnam: Mekong Delta

Geography: Vietnam

• Bridges: traffic height

(high cubes); curfew

• Locks: size, operating times

• Maintenance (dredging)

• Tides

• Draught restrictions

Characteristics

Inland shipping in the Netherlands

• Dutch fleet: ca 7,000 vessels (60% of W European fleet)

• Transport within Dutch borders: 330 Mton (30% of total).– bulk transport (market share 80% on distances > 100 km)– container transport (market share 33%)

– palletised transport (market share 4%)

Policy Port of Rotterdam for Maasvlakte 2

Cruise

Gas Chemicals

Applications

Beer Bakery products Ro-Ro Cars

Applications

Vietnam: Transport Capacity

IWT Transport Capacity

Jowi- Class Container Vessels (510 TEU)Vessel Scale

Push barges:RhineMississippiVessel Scale

Vessel Scale

Neo Kemp: “the Water Truck”

for smaller Dutch waterways

• L * B = 63 * 7 m.

• Deadweight 600 tons

• Capac = 32 TEU in 2 levels

• Highly manoeuverable

• Front-mounted, vertically movable

wheelhouse; no living quarters

• No hinder of low bridges, small

locks

• Anti- heeling system

• ICT for navigation and tracking &

tracing

• Now 9 vessels, 50 planned

Vessel Scale

Development: Inland Terminals

Vietnam: Inland Port Capacity

IWT Inland Port Capacity

• The number of inland waterway ports and piers has increased rapidly

• According to the 2003 statistics the number of ports and piers on the central river system is 2.608, including 72 ports and 2.536 piers

• In the North there are 17 river ports, 5 of them are managed by VIWA

• In the South there are 16 river ports scattered all over Mekong Delta plain, where the biggest one can handle 400,000 tons of cargo annually

Distrivaart (Netherlands)River Shuttle (Germany)

Development

• Streamlined underwater shape;

• Light weight construction;

• Fuel reduction 11 – 15% compared to conventional vessel;

• Innovative ballast system;

• Modular design: options for front / rear accomodation unit

Development: Smart Barge

Navigation and Information

Development: Information Systems

Parties involved in inland shipping:

• Standard shipping companies

• Working shipping companies

Vietnam: Organisation

Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration (VIWA)

• Agency of Ministry of Transport, governs and maintains the ports, rivers,

canals and navigable lakes of Vietnam

• VIWA governs 77 ports in Vietnam, including 33 river ports It manages five of them, all in the north, Hai Phong, Ninh Binh, Bac Ninh, Viet Tri and Hoa Binh VIWA maintains port authorities for four seaports:

Port Authority 1 at Hai Phong

Port Authority 2 at Hanoi

Port Authority 3 at Ho Chi Minh City

Port Authority 4 at Can Tho

• VIWA operates three vocational Inland Waterway Schools:

IWS 1 at Nam Dong, Nam Sach District of Hai Duong Province;

IWS 2 at Ho Chi Minh City;

IW - Technical Worker School at Hai Phong.

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