Rotterdam is the more favorable port for the transit of the goods that gives China reaches in southern Germany



Recently the society of advising and English search Drewry has published an analysis on the current offer of the containerized marine lines that give China (Shanghai) serve the market of southern Germany, including in the appraisal of the offer the connected harbour, railway activities and of fluvial transport - and not those street ones - necessary for the import of cargos in the German federate states of Baden-Wüttemberg and Bavaria.

The study discredits (for who it does not hold account of the potentialities that anticipate) the advantages assured from the ports of the northern basins of the Tyrrhenian one and the Adriatic in order to serve that market and attest instead the convenience of use of the nordeuropei ports, even if more distant from the places of destiny of the goods, and in particular of Rotterdam.

This last one has picked the ball to the leap in order to evidence as the main Dutch port constitutes the more favorable point through which making to pass the container that from the port of Shanghai they must reach in the two Land German. More convenient regarding the ports of Antwerp and Amburgo, has specified today the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam, than evidently it does not consider the offer of the sudeuropei ports of Genoa, Koper competitive, La Spezia and Trieste, those including in the analysis of the Drewry that excludes Venice and Ravenna on the base of the continuous increase of the dimension of the ships employed on these routes.

Port Authority Dutch has emphasized that, as validated from the study of the British society, of the 16 services of line that give Shanghai they reach in the ports of northern the range very 15 climb to Rotterdam regarding the 13 that touches Amburgo and to the six that climbs to Antwerp. The analysis rimarca moreover, and remember it also the Dutch Harbour Authority, than the minor cost in order to transport a container from 40 ' high cube from Shanghai to Monk of Bavaria it is represented by the connections via Rotterdam, that they anticipate a total average cost of 1.874 dollars for box, that is 70 dollars in less regarding the transit via Amburgo and 150 dollars in less regarding the transport via Antwerp. The harbour agency has specified however that the study explains that for this draft the goods transported via Antwerp reaches Monk in 30 days, two in less regarding the transit via Rotterdam and in less regarding the passage for Amburgo. The relationship of the English society finds that the faster service is but what it passes through the Slovenian port of Koper, realized in 29 days for medium total costs of 2.036 dollars for box from 40 ' high cube.

The analysis of the Drewry indicates also the costs and transit necessary the medium Time for the transport of the containers from Shanghai to the area of Freiburg/Lörrach, to the area of Stoccarda/Heilbronn, the area of Ulm and that of Nuremberg. In the first case the more convenient route from the economic point of view is that which reaches in the port of Amburgo, that total costs anticipate (included the harbour and railway costs) of 2.082 dollars/container 40 ' high cube, spold little inferior to that proposal from the services via Rotterdam, that they are dearer than medium single 16 dollars, and considerably inferior to the 2,248 necessary dollars for the transport via Antwerp. Transit the necessary Time for transport from Shanghai to the area of Freiburg/Lörrach (always inclusive of the necessary times for the development of the harbour and railway operations) are of 30 days via Antwerp, 32 via Amburgo and 33 via Rotterdam, but between the Belgian port and the area weeklies magazine with transit Time A-E are offered to three railway connections, while via Amburgo they are offered to five railway services every week with transit Time A-B and via Rotterdam it is possible to have use of four railway connections weeklies magazine with tempistica of delivery A-C.

For the area of Stoccarda/Heilbronn the economically more favorable offer is that of the services via Rotterdam with 1.924 dollars/container, than however the Time elevated pairs to 32 days anticipates more transit, the same one of the draft via Amburgo that but is more expensive than 20 dollars approximately. Via Antwerp transit the Time is reduced to 30 days, but the cost salt to 2.071 dollars/container.

For the imports in the area of Ulm the alternatives are reduced to the German port of Amburgo and that Italian of Trieste. For the first cost for container from 40 ' high cube it is of 1.944 dollars and transit the Time is of 33 days, respect to an offer via Trieste that is dearer than 176 dollars and implies a day more than travel. The specific study that transit the Time via Trieste can come down to 31 days and that however, since the railway connection from the giuliano port is operated a single time to the week, the advanced cost induces many shippers to opt for Amburgo also in the fear of having to attend a week in the event that the goods does not reach in time for being loaded on the train or of having in alternative to face ulterior costs for I forward via road.

For the area of Nuremberg the offer economically container via Rotterdam wins is that of 1.891 dollars/, with a cost via advanced Amburgo of 89 dollars and Antwerp dearer than 141 dollars. Transit the Time are of about 30 days via Antwerp, 31 via Amburgo and 32 via Rotterdam.

With respect to the ports of Genoa and La Spezia, first climbed from five directed services of line with Shanghai origin and according to from four, the study remembers that the intermodal operators are developing offered in order to increase the connections with the northern markets, currently centralized on the services with long Switzerland and the corridor towards the ports of north-western Europe. Moreover - the analysis emphasizes - if in southern Germany it is Monk to introduce the best railway connections with from Liguria ports, is possible in theoretical way connections with other areas of the region, but currently they would introduce costs or transit not competitive Time.