To achieve efficient trace track and green transportation in the north, the bureaucrats and politic

To achieve efficient trace track and green transportation in the north, the bureaucrats and politicians take responsibility for solving problems and coordinate efforts. Otherwise omkostningne be large, writes Jarle Løvland and Odd Jarl Borch in this feature article.
(Photo: Leif J. Olestad / NSB) discussion about the burden of an increased heavy transport on Norwegian roads flares trace track up regularly. Most agree that the negative effects of a rapidly growing truck traffic on the Norwegian road network is large.
This applies to both environmental pollution and noise, congestion, cost of maintenance of the road network, not to mention an unacceptable accident rate. This is also evident in the National Transport Plan for the period 2010-2019 and premises for new National Transport Plan for the period 2014-2023.
The aim of the Government is to achieve integrated supply chains where more freight going from road to rail combination trace track boat. The Government shall, in its transport policy has a clear focus on developing transport infrastructure in the North (Report no. # 16 2008-2009).
It has so far not been discussed are the options we have for a safe and sustainable transportation in the North and how to strengthen them. There are three transport corridors, characterized by an environmentally friendly and efficient boat transport.
The one corridor we find in cargo boats along the coast of Russia to the northeast via a number of Norwegian ports down to the continent. A lot of frozen fish and salt fish go this way. The second transport corridor trailer transportation to Narvik and the train continued through Sweden. There has been an increasing volume, especially as regards fresh fish. A problem here is that this fish is transported by truck within Northern Norway.
One of the quickest and perhaps the most environmentally friendly transport options can be found in court-boat combination in Northern Norway-line. Here transported container cargoes trace track by rail over Nordlandsbanen and on the boat from Bodø to five different ports of northern Norway. Annual trace track transporting 13,000 containers. This is equivalent to 6,000 trucks that would otherwise have charged our roads. The load is 1/3 of the traffic on the Nordland Line.
Rail aims to double the freight on Nordlandsbanen the coming years. The transport time for a container from Oslo to Tromsø will be combined train - boat could reach 34 hours.
It is therefore possible with a substantial increase in transport trace track volume at sea if this form of transport trace track given the same conditions as trailer transport. This emerges from a study conducted by the Transportation Development on behalf of the Maritime Forum North and the Executive Committee.
In another report prepared by Econ on behalf of the NCA shows that the Norwegian society can save 1-2 billion annually by moving freight from the roads over the court-boat. The positive social benefits trace track will be linked to reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less noise, fewer accidents, less queues and less wear costs. There is therefore good reason to take a boat routes, including the Bodo as an extension of the railway and thus an important part of the region's communications infrastructure in the same way as Hurtigruten.
Despite major social gains and ambitions are developing in the wrong direction. The combination orbit boat losing trace track market share to trailer. Now you can also boat service from Bodø be in danger. One reason for this is that sea transport will have to pay most of the infrastructure costs even while the trailers are paying a very small percentage.
The report "Nyfrakt" from Møre Research shows that the social costs of road transport is 14 cents per ton km, while maritime trace track transport only charges society with 2 cents. Anyway pays shipping ears 15 percent of the transport of charges and fees, while the trailer carriers pay less. This involves both a distortion of competition trace track in maritime transport disadvantage, trace track and a significant samfunnstap.
One of the major problems with future trace track investment in rail / boat is an aging coastal fleet and fragmented responsibilities in the transport chain. The responsibility is spread across many institutions and companies, national rail, freight rail ears as Cargo Net, groupage companies Tollpost-Globe, DB Schenker and Posten / Bring, the municipal port companies and shipping companies.
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