The town of Alblasserdam – east of Rotterdam – will get a Container Transferium (CT).The founding agreement was signed on Monday June 29 between the Dutch Transport Ministry and the Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoRA). The ‘Binnenlandse Container Terminals Nederland’ (BCTN) will operate the terminal. Total costs for acquiring the land, a special berthing area and the superstructure are estimated €38 million. It is planned to open by the end of 2011.
ContainertransferiumReduction
Within three years the transferium should draw 200,000 TEU from the road to water. This equals some ten percent of the number of container trucks on the A15 motorway. Trucks deliver to and collect at Alblasserdam and the distance of approximately 50 kilometres with the Maasvlakte is bridged by inland vessels. The final destination and origin of the boxes will usually not be far from the CT. It is the first time the port authority stimulates such a concept. It should keep the transport times at least constant at tariffs that appeal to the market.
Partners
The PoRA buys the land and plans and pays for the water related infrastructure. It leases this infrastructure of the 6.5 hectare large site to the operator BCTN. Besides that the port authority and APL, APM Terminals, ECT, Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk Line, MOL and Rotterdam World Gateway signed a ‘Letter of Support’ to endorse the principle of the CT and to support the concept. BCTN already operates terminals in Nijmegen (in the east of the Netherlands), Den Bosch (south), Wanssum (southeast) and Hengelo (northeast). The transferia fits into the policy of the Dutch government and the PoRA to promote transport by rail and water and to shift containers from road to the other modes of transport in order to diminish the number of trucks in the road.
ContainertransferiumReduction
Within three years the transferium should draw 200,000 TEU from the road to water. This equals some ten percent of the number of container trucks on the A15 motorway. Trucks deliver to and collect at Alblasserdam and the distance of approximately 50 kilometres with the Maasvlakte is bridged by inland vessels. The final destination and origin of the boxes will usually not be far from the CT. It is the first time the port authority stimulates such a concept. It should keep the transport times at least constant at tariffs that appeal to the market.
Partners
The PoRA buys the land and plans and pays for the water related infrastructure. It leases this infrastructure of the 6.5 hectare large site to the operator BCTN. Besides that the port authority and APL, APM Terminals, ECT, Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk Line, MOL and Rotterdam World Gateway signed a ‘Letter of Support’ to endorse the principle of the CT and to support the concept. BCTN already operates terminals in Nijmegen (in the east of the Netherlands), Den Bosch (south), Wanssum (southeast) and Hengelo (northeast). The transferia fits into the policy of the Dutch government and the PoRA to promote transport by rail and water and to shift containers from road to the other modes of transport in order to diminish the number of trucks in the road.