- 04.03.2014 ACL - Amber Coast Logistics hands over recommendations to high-ranking politicians
- 04.03.2014 ACL - Successful conclusion: 120 participants at the Final Conference of ACL
- 24.02.2014 ACL - ACL presented at United Nations Headquarters in New York
- 08.01.2014 ACL - Outlook on summary paper: Recommendations on the promotion of accessibility
- 17.09.2013 ACL - German-Lithuanian Evening Forum: ‘You can’t get around Lithuania’
- 22.08.2013 ACL - Accessibility in the Baltic Sea Region
- 23.05.2013 ACL - Maritime in-depth knowledge at the ACL staff exchange week in Hamburg
- 06.05.2013 ACL - Press Release: Mid-term event of the Amber Coast Logistics project
- 27.02.2013 ACL - Important alliances: Representatives of logistics industry met in Rostock
- 06.12.2012 ACL - Press Release: “Making Belarus more attractive for foreign carriers”
- Feb 2014
- Feb 2014
- Jun 2013 PORTlog - virtual freight village
- Feb 2014
Lead Partner:
Hafen Hamburg Marketing e.V.Pickhuben 6
20457 Hamburg
DE
Marina Rimpo
E-mail: rimpo@hafen-hamburg.de
Phone: +49 40 37709 111
Fax: +49 40 37709 199
Project Manager:
PLANCO Consulting GmbHAm Waldthausenpark 11
45127 Essen
DE
Gunnar Platz
E-mail: gp@planco.de
Phone: +49 (0) 201-43771-14
Fax: +49 (0) 201-411-468
Information Manager:
BONUM news + marketing GmbHMattentwiete 6
20457 Hamburg
DE
Janina Arndt
E-mail: arndt@bonum.net
Phone: +49-(0)40-69 79 63 85
Fax: +49-(0)40-69 79 63 88
Summary description of the project:
The Amber Coast region with its natural hinterland, the Baltic States, Northwest Russia, Belarus and the Northern Ukraine, is one of the logistics regions with the greatest potential in Northern Europe. The transport flows have increased substantially in the past years. The number of logistics centres along the eastern and southern coast of the Baltic Sea is rising constantly. They form the foundation for a supply chain that allows logistics players to better balance flows of goods and adapt more quickly to market developments.
Nevertheless, the transport and logistics infrastructure in the southern and eastern Baltic Sea Region today is not adequately developed. Remote areas are often very difficult to reach. The logistics players are not networked. Due to this drawback, the service potential of the region is not being exploited – it remains hidden, just like amber.
This being the situation, the uppermost goal of Amber Coast Logistics was to support the development of multimodal logistics centres in the southern and eastern Baltic Sea Region and thereby improve the accessibility of remote areas.
To achieve this goal, 19 project partners from Belarus, Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are working jointly on three thematic work packages: the ‘Flow of goods and institutional aspects’ work package involves analysis of the influence laws and regulations have on transport organisations and flows. An action plan to promote multi-modal transport structures will be conceptualised within the ‘Sustainable and efficient transport concepts and multi-modal transport chains’ work package. The ‘Regional logistics integration’ work package ultimately builds on the outcome of the previous two packages, effectively putting the results of the conceptual phase into practice.
The project is in line with the “EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region’s Action Plan”. It improves internal and external transport links in the Baltic Sea region.
Achievements of the project so far:
The final ACL conference entitled "Challenges, concepts and recommendations – the transport and logistics sector in the Baltic Sea region", concluded in Hamburg at 27 February 2014, brought the ACL project to a successful end. The conference was used as platform to present the final project results and hand over the final brochure to high-ranking representatives from the politics such as James Pond, Senior Consultant for the TEN-T Corridor "North Sea-Baltic" of the EC (http://www.ambercoastlogistics.eu/sites/default/files/final_brochure.pdf).
In addition to the final brochure all fundamental findings from the analytical project part (WP 3 & 4) has been merged in form of a summary recommendation paper on the promotion of accessibility and connection of remote areas in southern and eastern BSR (http://www.ambercoastlogistics.eu/sites/default/files/acl_4.4_recommendations.pdf). Finally a guideline was elaborated summarising the results of WP 5 entitled: Strengthening the logistics sector
in the Baltic Sea Region (http://www.ambercoastlogistics.eu/sites/default/files/acl_activity_5.4b_final_report_0_0.pdf).
This paper covers an assessment of the experience gathered at four logistics centres in the BSR, which serves as a basis for the formulation of general recommendations for building, implementing and operating logistics centres.
Moreover the improvement of transport management, particularly the use of appropriate IT solutions, is a key element of ACL. Accordingly ACL has developed two IT solutions, which facilitate transport chain organisation, operation as well as logistics promotion:
1. The Transport Border EDI package, which improves the information flow between all partners in an intermodal transport chain. Especially for smaller ports like the port of Elblag this slim tool will be an enormous benefit. Selected ACL partners have taken over the task of promoting the tool further on.
2. The online service PORTlog is a marketing tool for logistic service providers.
The core idea is to act as a broker for professional contacts between service providers and (potential) clients. According to matching criteria, companies can be selected for specific purposes.
For more details on outputs and results please check the project homepage: www.ambercoastlogistics.eu.
An active involvement of the business sector was a core element of the ACL strategy. Close contacts with the business sector have been strengthened with the result to establish joint logistic activities and to learn about obstacles and challenges of border-crossing transport into the East. As a result ACL has significantly contributed to establish new business cooperation e.g. between the Ports of Klaipeda and Sassnitz as well as between the Logistics Centres of Frankfurt Oder (DE), Prilesie (BY) and Kaluga (RU).
To build up these and further cooperation ACL partners and associates joined networking events like TransRussia Moscow 2012 and the Transport & Logistics Fair in Minsk 2013.
Project Duration: | Jun 2011 - Mar 2014 |
Approximate total project budget in EUR: | 2.770.300,00 |
ERDF co-financing: | 1.888.240,00 |
ENPI co-financing: | 306.450,00 |
Norwegian national contribution: | 0,00 |
List of partners
Port of Hamburg Marketing | ||||||||
20457 Hamburg | GERMANY Pickhuben 6 Region: Hamburg |
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Contact person: Marina Rimpo Phone: +49 40 37709 111 E-mail: rimpo@hafen-hamburg.de Web: www.hafen-hamburg.de |
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Ferryport Sassnitz (FPS) | ||||||||
18546 Sassnitz | GERMANY Im Fährhafen 1 Region: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
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Contact person: Patrick Schwabe Phone: +49511 35384932 E-mail: schwabe@faehrhafen-sassnitz.de Web: www.faehrhafen-sassnitz.de |
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Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services | ||||||||
21073 Hamburg | GERMANY Schwarzenbergstraße 95D Region: Hamburg |
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Contact person: Ralf Fiedler Phone: +49 4042878 6038 E-mail: ralf.fiedler@tu-harburg.de Web: www.cml.fraunhofer.de |
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Baltic Sea Forum e.V. | ||||||||
22525 Hamburg | GERMANY Große Bahnstraße 31 Region: Hamburg |
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Contact person: Dr. rer. med. Markus Köhl Phone: +49 (0)40 2393 698 1 E-mail: markus.koehl@baltic-sea-forum.org Web: www.baltic-sea-forum.org |
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Investor Center East Brandenburg GmbH | ||||||||
15236 Frankfurt (Oder) | GERMANY Im Technologiepark 1 Region: Brandenburg - Nordost |
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Contact person: Sybille Rehse
Phone: +49 335 557 2206 E-mail: rehse@ettc.de Web: www.icob.de, www.kv-terminal.de |
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Elblag Sea Port Authority (ESPA) | ||||||||
82-300 Elblag | POLAND Portowa str. 1-3 Region: Warminsko-Mazurskie |
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Contact person: Arkadiusz Zgliński Phone: +48 (055) 234 57 66 E-mail: arkadiusz.zglinski@port.elblag.pl Web: www.port.elblag.pl |
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Institute of Logistics and Warehousing | ||||||||
61-755 Poznan | POLAND E. Estkowskiego str. 6 Region: Wielkopolskie |
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Contact person: Tomasz Dowgielewicz Phone: +48 61 8504949 E-mail: Tomasz.Dowgielewicz@ilim.poznan.pl Web: www.ilim.poznan.pl |
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FDT – Association of Danish Transport and Logistics Centres | ||||||||
9100 Aalborg | DENMARK Ved Stranden 22 Region: Nordjylland |
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Contact person: Kent Bentzen Phone: +45 99 30 00 08 E-mail: fdt@ntu.eu Web: www.fdt.dk |
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Scandinavian Transport Centre / Port of Køge | ||||||||
4600 Køge (KOEGE) | DENMARK Baltic Kaj 1 Region: Sjælland |
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Contact person: Thomas Elm Kampmann Phone: + 45 56 64 62 60 E-mail: tek@stc-koege.dk Web: www.stc-koege.dk |
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Klaipeda State Seaport Authority (KSSA) | ||||||||
92251 Klaipeda | LITHUANIA J. Jannonio Str. 24 Region: Lietuva |
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Contact person: Kristina Gontier Phone: +370 46 499 624 E-mail: k.gontier@port.lt Web: www.portofklaipeda.lt |
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NPPE “Klaipeda Shipping Research centre” | ||||||||
92294 Klaipeda | LITHUANIA Igulos 18A-5 Region: Lietuva |
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Contact person: Prof. Vytautas Paulauskas Phone: +370 46 255503 E-mail: donatasp@takas.lt Web: NONE |
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Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and State Development Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | ||||||||
19048 Schwerin | GERMANY Schlossstrasse 6-8 Region: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
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Contact person: Karl Schmude Phone: +49-385-588-8412 E-mail: karl.schmude@em.mv-regierung.de Web: www.regierung-mv.de |
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Freeport of Riga Authority (FRA) | ||||||||
1030 Riga | LATVIA Saivas iela 40 Region: Latvija |
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Contact person: Leonids Loginovs Phone: +371 7030847 E-mail: info@rop.lv Web: www.freeportofriga.lv |
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Latvian Logistics Association | ||||||||
1010 Riga | LATVIA Skolas str. 21-605 Region: Latvija |
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Contact person: Normunds Krumins Phone: +371 67790861 E-mail: normunds.krumins@lp.lv Web: www.lla.lv |
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Free Port of Ventspils Authority | ||||||||
3601 Ventspils | LATVIA Jana str.19 Region: Latvija |
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Contact person: Igors Udodovs Phone: +37163602334 E-mail: igors.udodovs@vbp.lv Web: www.portofventspils.lv |
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CASE Belarus – Centre for Social and Economic Research Belarus | ||||||||
00-010 Warsaw | POLAND ul.Sienkiewicza 12 Region: Mazowieckie |
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Contact person: Sierz Naurodski Phone: +48 22 6226627 E-mail: sierz.naurodski@case-research.eu Web: www.case.com.pl |
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Scientific and Technological Park BNTU "Polytechnic" | ||||||||
220013 Minsk | BELARUS Nezavisimosti Ave. 67-123 Region: Minskaya Oblastj, g. Minsk. |
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Contact person: Dmitry Solomakho Phone: +375 17 292 76 78 E-mail: d.solomakho@bntu.by Web: www.polytechnic.by |
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Belarusian Association of International Forwarders | ||||||||
220012 Misnk | BELARUS Chernyshevskogo str. 10A, room 401 Region: Minskaya Oblastj, g. Minsk. |
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Contact person: Elena Ilyina Phone: +375172809939 E-mail: director@baifby.com Web: /www.baifby.com |
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School of Business and Management of Technology of BSU | ||||||||
220030 Minsk | BELARUS Oktyabrskaya Str.4, room 202 Region: Minskaya Oblastj, g. Minsk. |
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Contact person: Anatoly Denisovich Molokovich Phone: +375 17 2104106 E-mail: Mol_A@tut.by Web: www.sbmt.by |
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