Chapter 2 transportation modalities inland waterway

HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION MODALITIES PRESENTED BY: BICH HOAI, MSc Contents • Air • Road • Rail • Sea • Inland Waterway • Multimodal transport Inland Waterway Transport Geography Inland Waterway Transport Geography Sea ports with major IWT hinterland: • Rotterdam, Antwerp (Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt and beyond) • Hamburg, Bremen (Weser, Elbe and beyond) • Constantza (Danube and beyond) • Odessa (Dniepr) • St Petersburg, Astrakhan, Rostov-on-Don (Neva, Don, Volga) Inland ports with a major multi modal hinterland: • Duisburg, Frankfurt • Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade • Zaporizhzhia, Dniepropetrovsk, Kiev, Brest ? • Volgograd Inland Waterway Transport Geography Main Atlantic seaports: New York, Boston, New Port Main Pacific seaports: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach Main Gulf seaport: New Orleans Main inland ports: Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City Inland Waterway Transport Geography Europe: Rhine - Danube PRC: Yangtze Region Inland Waterway Transport Geography Inland Waterway Transport Geography: Vietnam • 41,000 km Natural waterway • 8,000km: Commercial trade • VN Inland waterway administration: manage 6,000km river terminal Inland Waterway Transport Geography: Vietnam Inland Waterway Transport Geography: Vietnam Red river Mekong river Dong Nai river Saigon river Inland Waterway Transport Vietnam: Transport Capacity IWT Transport Capacity Inland Waterway Transport Vessel Scale IWT in Europe 1980 – 2005: • No of vessels: • Total tonnage: -/-52% -/- 24% • Tonnage/vessel: + 66% • Utilisation/vessel: + 25% • 24-hours operations • Higher sailing speeds • Mechanised handling • Easier maintenance Inland Waterway Transport Vessel Scale Jowi- Class Container Vessels (510 TEU) Inland Waterway Transport Vessel Scale Push barges: Rhine Mississippi Inland Waterway Transport Vessel Scale Inland Waterway Transport Vessel Scale Neo Kemp: “the Water Truck” for smaller Dutch waterways • L * B = 63 * m • Deadweight 600 tons • Capac = 32 TEU in levels • Highly manoeuverable • Front-mounted, vertically movable wheelhouse; no living quarters • No hinder of low bridges, small locks • Anti- heeling system • ICT for navigation and tracking & tracing • Now vessels, 50 planned Inland Waterway Transport Development: Inland Terminals Inland Waterway Transport Vietnam: Inland Port Capacity IWT Inland Port Capacity • The number of inland waterway ports and piers has increased rapidly • According to the 2003 statistics the number of ports and piers on the central river system is 2.608, including 72 ports and 2.536 piers • In the North there are 17 river ports, of them are managed by VIWA • In the South there are 16 river ports scattered all over Mekong Delta plain, where the biggest one can handle 400,000 tons of cargo annually Inland Waterway Transport Development River Shuttle (Germany) Distrivaart (Netherlands) Inland Waterway Transport Development: Smart Barge • Streamlined underwater shape; • Light weight construction; • Fuel reduction 11 – 15% compared to conventional vessel; • Innovative ballast system; • Modular design: options for front / rear accomodation unit Inland Waterway Transport Development: Information Systems • GPS • VTS • Draughts • Locks • Bridges • Booking • Road / Rail • Tr & Tr • Terminals • Customs Inland Waterway Transport Development: Information Systems Navigation and Information Inland Waterway Transport Parties Parties involved in inland shipping: • Standard shipping companies • Working shipping companies • Cargo offices • Container operators • Co-operatives in inland shipping • Ship charterers Inland Waterway Transport Vietnam: Organisation Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration (VIWA) • • • Agency of Ministry of Transport, governs and maintains the ports, rivers, canals and navigable lakes of Vietnam VIWA governs 77 ports in Vietnam, including 33 river ports It manages five of them, all in the north, Hai Phong, Ninh Binh, Bac Ninh, Viet Tri and Hoa Binh VIWA maintains port authorities for four seaports: Port Authority at Hai Phong Port Authority at Hanoi Port Authority at Ho Chi Minh City Port Authority at Can Tho VIWA operates three vocational Inland Waterway Schools: IWS at Nam Dong, Nam Sach District of Hai Duong Province; IWS at Ho Chi Minh City; IW - Technical Worker School at Hai Phong THANK YOU ... vessels, 50 planned Inland Waterway Transport Development: Inland Terminals Inland Waterway Transport Vietnam: Inland Port Capacity IWT Inland Port Capacity • The number of inland waterway ports and... Year: 20 05 20 35 Road: 59% 35% IWT: 31% 45% Rail: 10% 20 % Inland Waterway Transport Applications Chemicals Bulk Cruise Gas Inland Waterway Transport Applications Beer Ro-Ro Bakery products Cars Inland. .. Saigon river Inland Waterway Transport Geography: Vietnam, Mekong Delta Inland Waterway Transport Geography: Vietnam: Mekong Delta Inland Waterway Transport Geography: Vietnam Inland Waterway Transport