Brussels, 2 December 2020
On the 2nd of December, FEPORT Secretariat attended the first stakeholder meeting of the H2020 project NOVIMOVE. NOVIMOVE stands for novel inland waterways transport concepts for moving freight efficiently. The research project aims at increasing the freight potential of the Rhine-Alpine corridor by 30% in the upcoming 10 years.
The consortium working towards this aim consists of technology developers and suppliers, logistics chain stakeholders as well as universities and research institutes. The project will run for four years, from June 2020 up until June 2024.
One of NOVIMOVE’s strategic aims is to better use the capacity of inland fleet and infrastructure in order to increase the reliability and competitiveness of IWT as a transport mode.
One of the work packages will look into innovations for new forms of port and river logistics and some of the project’s objectives relate to reducing time in ports through improved container logistics. For example, the first mobile terminal should be operational in a seaport as a result of the project.
Another way to increase the modal share of IWT cargo is by establishing a new business model for seaport logistics on which logistics stakeholders should reach an agreement by 2026 and become operational in 2028.