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ACL - Amber Coast Logistics hands over recommendations to high-ranking politicians

Hamburg, 27 February 2014: One highlight of the ACL closing conference last week in Hamburg: Project manager Marina Rimpo, Port of Hamburg Marketing, handed over the final brochure of the project to high-ranking politicians – among others to James Pond, Senior Advisor for the TEN-T Corridor “North Sea-Baltic” of the European Commission. “ACL has shown how important it is to plan national transport and logistics strategies not only with a view to national interests. The politicians are also called upon in this respect,” said Rimpo. In addition to Pond, Andreas Rieckhof, State Secretary of the City of Hamburg, Ministry of Economy, Transport and Innovation, and Uwe Beckmeyer, Parliamentary State Secretary to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and coordinator of the German Federal government for the maritime sector, were among the first recipients of the recommendations for action. “We hope that consideration will be given to the results that we have elaborated within the framework of ACL in your further political work,” added Rimpo. The brochure summarizes the studies that have been conducted in 30 months of project lifetime and the resultant recommendations for action. Interviews with project partners and the business sector as well as a retrospect on how ACL promoted transnational cooperation in the southern and eastern Baltic Sea region round the final brochure out.

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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.

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