Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism ECMT/UNECE Seminar INTERMODAL TRANSPORT BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES HOSTED BY MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT OF UKRAINE KIEV, 27 and 28 September 2004

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism R O M A N I A Marin STANCU Superior Counsellor General Direction for Railway Transport MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, CONSTRUCTIONS AND TOURISM KIEV, 27 and 28 September 2004 CONTRIBUTION OF ROMANIA TO INTERMODAL TRANSPORT BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA

ROMANIA Candidate Country  km²  22.5 millions people  Bucharest – 2.5 mil.  Position: South-East of Europe neighbor with Black Sea  Transport: West-East: Europe-Asia North-South of Europe Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Construction and Tourism EUROPE ASIA

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Actual status: ROMANIA closed in 2003 the provisional negotiations with EUROPEAN UNION for Chapter 9 – Policy in the field of transports. Next step: The foresight for accession of ROMANIA to EUROPEAN UNION is January 1 st 2007.

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism 1. TRANSPORT CORRIDORS THROUGH ROMANIA 2. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON INTERMODAL TRANSPORT IN ROMANIA 3. VOLUME OF INTERMODAL TRANSPORT IN ROMANIA 4. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT TERMINALS IN ROMANIA 5. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS IN ROMANIA 6. IT DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES 7. CONCLUSIONS

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism 1. TRANSPORT CORRIDORS THROUGH ROMANIA

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Pan-European Transport Corridors in Romania Corridor IV: Central Europe – South East Europe Berlin/Nurnberg–Praha–Budapest–Arad-Bucharest–Constanta Arad–Timisoara–Craiova–Calafat–Vidin–Istanbul/Thessaloniki Corridor VII: Danube (waterway corridor) Corridor IX: North East Europe – South East Europe Helsinki-S.Petersburg-Kiev/Moskva-Odessa-Chisinau-Iasi -Bucharest-Giurgiu-Dimitrovgrad-Alexandroupolis

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Corridor VII (Danube) Corridor IX Corridor IV Helsinki ‘97 BLACK SEA ARAD CONSTANTA IASI BUCHAREST GIURGIU CALAFAT UKRAINE MOLDOVA REP. UKRAINE HUNGARY SERBIA BULGARIA PAN-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT CORRIDORS IN ROMANIA PLOIESTI CRAIOVA TIMISOARA

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Corridor IV Main Characteristics of the Romanian Railway Sector Length880 km Doubled line 98 % Electrified line 99 % Max speedPass:140 km/h 160 km/h (Bucharest-Campina) Freight: 95 km/h 120 km/h (Bucharest-Campina) CapacityMax: 210 Trains/day Min: 60 Trains/day Number of stations108

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism  Corridor VII Main Characteristics of the Romanian Sector of Danube Length1075 km River and sea ports 32 Capacity 51.5 mil. tons/year Canal Danube – Black Sea Poarta Alba – Midia Bega

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism  Corridor IX Main Characteristics of the Romanian Railway Sector Length655 km Doubled line 79 % Electrified line 79 % Max speedPass:140 km/h 160 km/h (Bucharest-Ploiesti) Freight: 95 km/h 120 km/h (Bucharest-Ploiesti) Number of stations119

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism 2. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON INTERMODAL TRANSPORT IN ROMANIA

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Romanian Regulations in connection with UNECE Agreements  Law 8/1993 regarding the ratification of EUROPEAN AGREEMENT ON IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL COMBINED TRANSPORT LINES AND RELATED INSTALLATIONS (AGTC)  Romania is one of the seven Contracting Parties of PROTOCOL ON COMBINED TRANSPORT ON INLAND WATWERWAYS (1997) TO THE AGTC

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Romanian Legislation harmonized with European Union Regulations (1) Intermodal Transport Railway-Road Government Ordinance 88/1999 regarding the establishing some rules for combined transport, approved by Law 401/2002 Regulation for Romanian Railway Transport, approved by Government Ordinance 41/1997 Government Urgency Ordinance 125/2003, approved by Law 128/2004, amending GUO 12/ non-discriminatory access in terminals and ports linked to rail activities - provisions for intermodal logistic centres Government Urgency Ordinance 12/1998 regarding transport on Romanian Railway

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Romanian Legislation harmonized with European Union Regulations (2) Intermodal Transport Railway-Road-Maritime Government Ordinance 42/1997 regarding civil navigation Government Ordinance 116/1998 concerning the setting up of special regime for international maritime transport activity, approved by Law 231/2004 Government Decision 71/1997 regarding the authorization of commercial societies that perform international maritime transport Government Ordinance 22/1999 regarding management of ports and services offered in the ports

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism 3. VOLUME OF INTERMODAL TRANSPORT IN ROMANIA

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Freight Transport in Romania

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Intermodal Transport at CFR MARFA %

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Intermodal Transport at CFR MARFA First semester of 2004/2003

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism 4. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT TERMINALS IN ROMANIA

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism CFR MARFA 24 Number of terminals CONSTANTA PORT 4 INTERCONTAINER- INTERFRIGO (ICF) 1 TOTAL31 FRATTI & DAEWOO 2 Existing terminals

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism VAN d. VLIST 1 Number of terminals ROMTRANS 2 CFR MARFA (RO-LA)2 TOTAL5 New terminals in short time

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Constanta Port – The turntable of European and Euro - Asian Transport The biggest commercial port of the Black Sea Total surface: > ha Loading and unloading capacities:> 200 mil. Tons/year God opportunities for intermodal transport (4 intermodal terminals) Connection with Rotterdam through: Black Sea-Danube Canal, Danube, Main-Rhine

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism 5. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS IN ROMANIA

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Existing systems Unaccompanied intermodal railway–road transport, that grants the “door to door“ transport using the two transport modalities, without affecting the freight when changing the type of transport Accompanied intermodal transport (RO-LA), that offers the transport of road tractors accompanied by the drivers, technology that grants the elimination of congestion of traffic and less pollution of the environment Accompanied and unaccompanied railway and/or road- maritime intermodal transport, by using the ferry-boat vessels from the patrimony of the national freight operator CFR MARFA

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Transport RO - LA at CFR MARFA Special wagons (Saadkkms) 10 axels with low platform Number of wagons: 160 Operating trains: 12 weekly on both directions Connection: Arad-Glogovăţ (Romania) – Wels (Austria) Traveling time: 20 hours

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Using ferryboats of CFR MARFA (1) Connection of Romania with: Middle East Caucasian Area Transports in ferry-boat offers a wide range of advantages for freight transportation in wagons or trucks: reduced distance, reduced traveling time, reduced numbers of borders, good accommodations for truck drivers Central Asia

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Using ferryboats of CFR MARFA (2)

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism 6. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Increase Transport between Europe and Asia next 30 years Transport of oil and other natural resources from Asia to Europe Transport of manufactured products in both directions Development of Eastern Europe (Enlargement of European Union) As a result: Increase of Intermodal Transport

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Increase Intermodal Transport in Romania Transport of goods from Asia to Europe Transport of manufactured products in both directions Development of logistic centers in Romania: The most appropriate locations: Constanta, Bucharest, Timisoara, Oradea, Brasov, Bacau and Craiova As a result: Increase of Intermodal Transport

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism 7. CONCLUSIONS

Contribution of Romania to Intermodal Transport between Europe and Asia Marin STANCU Ministry of Transport, Constructions and Tourism CONCLUSIONS An important path of transport between Europe and Asia passed through ROMANIA. It is necessary to develop international legislation for increase intermodal transport, inclusively between EUROPE and ASIA. ROMANIA can participate at this process. Number of intermodal transport terminals from ROMANIA have increase. It is a big potential for intermodal transport in ROMANIA. ROMANIA intends to develop next years, logistic center for intermodal transport that will be used for increase the intermodal transport between EUROPE and ASIA.

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