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In the 2015 in Germany volume of goods transported from the services of Short Sea Shipping it is dropped of -1,2%
Increase of the costs determined from the new norms on the fuel of the ships
September 16, 2016
Last year the services of Short Sea Shipping have enlivened in the German ports a total of 180,4 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -1,2% regarding the 182,6 million one tons in 2014. The German federal Office for the transport has announced goods (Bundesamtes für Güterverkehr - BAG) specifying that, against this bending, however the quota the marine transports short beam on the traffic total enlivened from the national ports is gone up in the 2015 to 60.9% regarding 60.1% in the year precedence. Moreover last year the number of unit ro-ro enlivened in the national ports has been pairs to 2,0 million, with an increment of +0.3% on 2014 I yield of an increase of the truck number and of an light decrease of that of the towings.
Altogether last year the enlivened national traffic from the services of Short Sea Shipping is increased of +7.9% 8,2 million to tons, while that enlivened with the other European nations is come down of -1,6% to the 167,2 million one tons and decreasing (- 1.2%) has turned out also traffic SSS with the Africa North that has been attested 5,0 million to tons.
The BAG has examined also the impact on the Short Sea Shipping of the effectiveness on January 1°, 2015 of the norm of the European Union that has introduced the maximum limit to the sulfur tenor in fuel for the ships, that it is pairs to 0.1% for the units that operate in areas SECA (Sulphur Emission Control Areas), that is Baltic Sea, Sea of Nord and English Channel. The federal office has specified that such impact cannot still be totally estimated and that, however, has been an sensitive increase in weight of the costs determined from the passage from the use of the heavy fuel oil to the fuel to low sulfur tenor.
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Last year the services of Short Sea Shipping have enlivened in the German ports a total of 180,4 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -1,2% regarding the 182,6 million one tons in 2014. The German federal Office for the transport has announced goods (Bundesamtes für Güterverkehr - BAG) specifying that, against this bending, however the quota the marine transports short beam on the traffic total enlivened from the national ports is gone up in the 2015 to 60.9% regarding 60.1% in the year precedence. Moreover last year the number of unit ro-ro enlivened in the national ports has been pairs to 2,0 million, with an increment of +0.3% on 2014 I yield of an increase of the truck number and of an light decrease of that of the towings.
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