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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Online Decision Support System

Nautical Enterprise is developing an online decision support system that is capable of the statistical analysis of cargo movements and the modelling of intermodal transportation.

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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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eFreight Web Services Integration Proposal

Intelligent Agents & Web Services Integration Gateway for Maritime Services

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SKEMA Copenhagen Workshop 18th Feb 2010

Nautical Enterprise in conjunction with its SKEMA project partners are pleased to announce details of the upcoming SKEMA Workshop entitled “Sailing Through Troubled Waters” which takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 18th February 2010.

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Irish Transport Statistics

Transport is not only an important economic sector but also a sector of major social and environmental importance. As concerns over cross-cutting issues such as health, sustainable travel and energy consumption have emerged, so have the demands for data.

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Modal Backshift Task-2

The German Transport Ministry has recently become a contributor to the project and it is now envisaged that additional routes, operating between Germany and the Nordic states, shall also be included in the study.

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