Reports

eFreight & PROPS Workshop, Cork Port, July 2011

The eFreight/ PROPS Workshop “Transport Innovation for the Advancement of Trade’ was held in Cork Port Company, Ireland on 19th July 2011. The workshop was organised by Nautical Enterprise (NECL), Irish Exporters Association (IEA) and Cork Port Company (CPC). Forty five people with various Maritime Transport & Logistics interests and from six European states attended [...]

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Props & Skema Workshop, Dublin Port, March 2011

The SKEMA/ PROPS Workshop “Economic Recovery through Trade & Transport’ was held in Dublin Port Company, Ireland on 1st March 2011. The workshop was organised by Nautical Enterprise (NECL), Irish Exporters Association (IEA) and Dublin Port Company (DPC). Sixty three people with various Maritime Transport & Logistics interests and from six European states attended the [...]

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Single Windows considering the port formalities directive

4th WORKSHOP ON INNOVATION IN THE PORT CLUSTER ICTs and the Integration of Ports with their Hinterland Valencia, 25-26 October 2010 In the first thematic area, with Ignacio Rodríguez Arévalo. Deputy Director of Research, Development and Innovation. Spanish State Ports Agency as chair person, Gráinne Lynch gave presentation entitled “Single Windows considering the port formalities [...]

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Competitiveness of Short Sea Shipping

Maritime transport in Europe has always been a reliable way of moving goods and passenger at a low cost from one place to another. In the current context, all transport modes, including maritime, are called upon by legislators to improve their efficiency and reduce the amount of pollutants emitted into the environment. Road transport has been subject to increasingly stringent emissions standards since the early nineties, while emission standards for maritime transport are/were less stringent.

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Appraisal of the Irish Economy 2010

In the first half of the decade 2000 – 2010 the Irish economy grew at an annual average rate of 5.4%. The Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) produced their ‘Middle Term Review 2005 – 2012’ in December 2005 in which they made predictions for the Irish economy out to 2012. These predictions, for the most part, were positive. Circumstances, however, changed in the second half of the decade and things went terribly wrong, with the foundations for much of the economic disaster being laid in the first half of the decade.

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Feasibility of New RoRo / RoPax Services between Ireland and Continental Europe

This 2007 study, on the feasibility of new direct RoRo services between Ireland and Continental Europe, is carried out against a backdrop of thriving ferry and trucking services via the British Land Bridge. Since the Act of Union with Britain in 1801, trade between Ireland and Britain has flourished, to the extent that much of Ireland’s trade with the rest of the world was streamed through Britain. Even today, Britain remains a strong distribution centre for Ireland and the Land Bridge services complement this distribution
network.

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MARPOL Annex VI’s Impact on the Competitiveness of SSS

SKEMA Study “Modal Backshift” overview presented on the 18th of March 2010 at the SSS & MoS Focal Points meeting in Brussels

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PROPS Workshop to be held in Turku on 16th June 2010

PROPS Marketing Workshop to be held in Turku on the 16th of June 2010 on issues affecting short sea shipping in the Baltic Sea.

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PROPS Riga Breakout Session Report

PROPS Riga Breakout Session Report

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SKEMA Riga Workshop Report

The SKEMA Workshop “Accelerated Implementation of EU Maritime Transport Policy” was held in Riga, Latvia on 11th June 2009.

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