ChemMultimodal
The chemical industry is an important economic sector in central Europe with 117 billion Euro turnover and 340.000 employees. Chemical companies are important logistic stakeholders responsible for 8 percent of freight transport. The main objective of ChemMultimodal is the promotion of multimodal transport of chemical goods. The project aims to achieve this by coordinating and facilitating cooperation between chemical companies, specialised logistics service providers (LSP), terminal operators and public authorities in chemical regions in central Europe.
Based on a detailed analysis of the needs for improving multimodal transport of chemical goods, the project will develop a toolbox to support chemical companies and
logistics service providers in their strategic and operational planning for increasing the share of multimodal transport. This toolbox will be tested in 6 pilots with 30 chemical companies in the partner countries to facilitate real modal shift. In these pilots it is the objective to increase multimodal transport by 10 percent and reduce CO2 footprint by 5 percent until the end of project duration. Furthermore, 6 training seminars will be implemented to teach usage of the tool to additional 120 companies. 1 common strategy and 7 regional action plans will be developed to continue and intensify activities after the project end.
13.09.2018
News
Project Partners Already Saved More than 8000 t CO2 Emissions
During the working group meeting in Linz, partners discussed preliminary results of the pilot phase. Since the start of the pilot phase in autumn 2017, project partners have worked together with 59 companies and identified 45 potential transport routes that are suitable for shifting road transports of chemical goods to multimodal modes of transport. So far, the pilot tests have led to a reorganisation of transports on seven identified routes. Further routes on which shifts of chemical transports have been tested are still under evaluation. This could lead to even more CO2 savings than the already achieved 8448 t.
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- Outputs
Based on a detailed analysis of the needs for improving multimodal transport of chemical goods, the project will develop a toolbox that supports chemical companies and LSP in their strategic and operational planning for increasing the share of multimodal transport. This toolbox will be tested in 7 pilots with 30 chemical companies in the partner countries to facilitate real modal shift.
In these pilots it is the objective to increase multimodal transport by 10% and reduce CO2 footprint by 5% until the end of project duration. Furthermore 6 Training Seminars will be implemented to teach usage of the tool to additional 120 companies. 7 Regional Strategy and Action Plans will be developed to continue activities after the project end.
Toolbox
Toolbox element 3
Intermodal links platform
The Intermodal Links Planner allows the visualisation of existing intermodal transport routes and provides information about frequency of departure, availability of Logistics Service Providers and terminal operators, arranged feed, delivery of transports to/from different terminals.
Toolbox element 4
CO2 CalCulator
The CO2 calculator was developed based on activity-based method. It allows to estimate chemical and logistics companies CO2 emissions from transport chain in an easy way. The value of CO2 emissions is approximate as it is based on average emission factors recommended by McKinnon.
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ChemMultimodal
01.06.2016
31.05.2019
