Project Summary
Waterway transportation emits three times less C02 than road transport. Transport by barge is predominantly used for big-volumes, as a barge replace a lot of trucks. ST4W aims to convince shippers shipping palletized freight to ship road freight by water. These flows are often small and highly diversified volumes, loaded, transported and delivered mainly by SMEs, with complex distribution schemes. Pallet flows, loaded directly in barges or bundled in containers, need to be consolidated for shipment by water. Effective logistics engineering is essential to ensure cargo consolidation, requiring an accurate synchronisation between operators and a collaborative approach demanding organisational and behavioural change from logistics professionals. Efficient, simple and low-cost communications tools, using worldwide standards are indispensable.
At present, there are no dedicated tools for waterway transportation, and maritime systems are too expensive for SMEs. This is a critical issue, especially as 85 % of European river freight is concentrated in NWE territory. Consequently ST4W proposes a management solution for shipment by inland waterway transport, providing to small stakeholders a simpler and cheaper access to secure data, and enabling them to share a hierarchical track & trace service of shipment, complementing the River Information Services, which localizes vessels. These tools will be tested, validated and rolled out during the project with the support of various partners (shippers, logistics operators, ship owners, ports and terminals, waterway administrations). A sustainable and closer cooperation between waterway actors and their supply chain partners will enable more clients to make use of waterway transportation (from mental shift to modal shift), and consequently to reduce CO2 emissions of their logistics operations: We forecast a modal transfer of 600 millions t.km from road to waterway, namely 40 000 T of CO2 saved by the tenth year after the project.


Project Partners
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CRITT T&L
182 quai George V
Le Havre
76600
France -
Logistics in Wallonia
Building 52, boîte 10 Liege Airport, rue de l'Aéroport
Grâce-Hollogne
4460
Belgium -
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Postbus 513 de Lismortel
Eindhoven
5600 MB
Netherlands -
Stichting Bureau Telematica Binnenvaart
078 Vasteland
Rotterdam
3011 BN
Netherlands -
Institut du droit international des transports
110 Avenue du Mont Riboudet
Rouen
76000
France -
Stichting Projecten Binnenvaart
078 Vasteland
Rotterdam
3011 BN
Netherlands -
Port Autonome du Centre et de l'Ouest
1 Rue Mercure
Houdeng-Goegnies
7110
Belgium -
Port de Bruxelles - Haven van Brussel
6 Place des Armateurs
Bruxelles
1000
Belgium -
Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
2 Forsthausweg
Duisburg
47057
Germany -
Blue Line Logistics nv
1616 Sint Antoniusweg Haven
Kallo
9130
Belgium -
Inlecom System Ltd
24 High Street
Wanstead
E112AQ
United Kingdom -
Multitel
2 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie
Mons
7000
Belgium
Lead partner
Organisation | Contact name | Address | ||
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Multitel | Stéphane Deketelaere |
2 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie Mons 7000 Belgium |
deketelaere@multitel.be |
Name | Contact Name | Country | |
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CRITT T&L | Claire Bouvier | claire.bouvier@critt-tl.fr | France |
Logistics in Wallonia | Bernard Piette | bpi@logisticsinwallonia.be | Belgium |
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven | Tom Van Woensel | t.v.woensel@tue.nl | Netherlands |
Stichting Bureau Telematica Binnenvaart | Henk van Laar | henkvanlaar@binnenvaart.org | Netherlands |
Institut du droit international des transports | Ludovic Couturier | lcouturier@idit.asso.fr | France |
Stichting Projecten Binnenvaart | Khalid Tachi | k.tachi@eicb.nl | Netherlands |
Port Autonome du Centre et de l'Ouest | Catherine Maheux | c.maheux@le-paco.be | Belgium |
Port de Bruxelles - Haven van Brussel | Désirée Simonetti | dsimonetti@port.brussels | Belgium |
Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE) | Bernd Noche | bernd.noche@uni-due.de | Germany |
Blue Line Logistics nv | Antoon Van Coillie | antoon.vancoillie@bluelinelogistics.eu | Belgium |
Inlecom System Ltd | Yash Chadha | yash@inlecom.com | United Kingdom |