Integrated Supply Chains - Intermodality in Ports
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Efforts focused on sustainability for ports require their transformation into efficient intermodal hubs, where goods and data flow easily from one mode of transportation to another, where processes are optimized and efficient.
The European Union transport policy recognizes the importance of the waterborne transport as key element for sustainable mobility in Europe. By 2030, 30% of total road freight over 300 km should shift to rail or water-enabled means of transport, and over 50% by 2050.
Challenges and opportunities
Port operations require seamless and efficient intermodality to reduce CO2 emission and congestion in the port and its hinterland. This can only be achieved through a massive digitalization process and infrastructure investments where the tracking of containers and ships, trucks and cranes is readily available and coordinated, and safety in this highly trafficked land and water space is ensured.
Norms and standards ease the physical and digital flow and support the optimization of related processes. Examples of projects in this area of action are autonomous 0-emission vessels, automated cargo handling and planning solutions.
In practice
More specifically, in the port of Lisbon, the potential of the river Tagus as alternative logistic corridor to road transport will be addressed. This modal shift from road to river could be achieved by the development of autonomous or semi-automated zero-emission barges while improving at the same time the efficiency in port operations and reducing traffic congestion in the city of Lisbon.
Moreover, various automated port vehicles - from straddle carriers to cranes and reach stackers - could largely benefit from the deployment of a 5G network and the digitalization of processes to significantly contribute to this effort of more coordinated sustainability at intermodal hubs.
In Lisbon, city and port are closely intertwined. In our Community of Interest, we want to seize the opportunity to put together different existing digital twins and data sources with the port’s logistic layer, federating the collaboration between public and private entities and optimizing the global efficiency and quality of life in the Lisbon region.
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This Movin'On Community of Interest aims to implement and test automated and zero-emission barges in the port of Lisbon and on Tagus River in order to identify the technological, data related and normative challenges we need to tackle in the coming years while improving the efficiency of operations and scale up these solutions in the port, urban and hinterland environment.
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In 2024, Movin'On is renewing its commitment to the ambitious vision set out by the European Green Deal. To achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, legislative measures include initiatives covering climate, the environment, energy, transportation, industry and sustainable finance - all of which are closely linked. The European Commission has furthermore stressed "the need for a comprehensive, cross-sectoral approach, encompassing all relevant sectors to achieve the ultimate climate objective". Movin'On, as a business-led, multi-modal and cross-sectoral ecosystem, is perfectly in line with this approach.
We are therefore proud to announce our collective commitment throughout the year to achieving one goal: to help make the decarbonization of land transportation in Europe a success, in line with the objectives of the "Fit for 55" package by the year 2030 and in tune with the signing of the call for "Fossil-Free Transportation" initiated by our long-standing institutional partner SLOCAT.
Pease discover the themes we have together defined to meet this challenge, and for you, too, to collectively be a real part of it: Energy - Intermodality - Circular economy - Financing the transition - Inclusive mobility - Supporting the transition. - Sovereignty
These 7 themes are the starting point for our 2024 Communities of Interest, working groups that bring together various ecosystem stakeholders. They study the burning question of sustainable mobility, develop a common vision and jointly experiment with new solutions.
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