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Cargo Securing to prevent cargo damages on road, sea, rail and air (CARING)

End date: May 16, 2015,

...nts of professional drivers in Finland (Laapotti & Peräaho 2011) has revealed that the risks in loading and securing of cargo comprised 12 % of all vehicular risk factors. This was more than the proportion of risks connected to tires and brakes together (10 %). Europe is an area where goods and products can move around freely, without any checks at the national borders. This puts pressure on ensu ...
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CLEAN BALTIC SEA SHIPPING (CleanShip)

Start date: Jun 9, 2010, End date: Sep 9, 2013,

...altic Sea. The project shall result in a web-based Pan-Baltic Best Practice Manual and a strategy for Clean Shipping. Scenarios for environmental impact from different technical measures and specific port elaborations by pilot projects form the basis for future commitments and decision making about needed investments.The CLEANSHIP project partners, all in all 19 full partners, 20 associated partne ...
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Breakthrough in European Ship and Shipbuilding Technologies (BESST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"Initiated by EUROYARDS, BESST aims to achieve a breakthrough in competitiveness, environmentally friendliness and safety of EU built ships. Focusing on passenger ships, ferries and mega-yachts, the results will to a large extend be applicable also to other ships. A holistic life cycle performance assessment on ship level will guide the technical developments on system level, clustered in System G ...
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LogVAS - Logistic potentials for value added services in port-located areas (LogVAS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2005, End date: Feb 28, 2008,

The traffic flow in the Baltic Sea Region rises immediately and several studies forecast an ongoing dynamic growth in the upcoming years. Ports can benefit from this growth if they do not serve as water-gates only but also create Value Added Services (VAS) on the goods handled. In order to implement the most efficient VAS in the respective ports it is vital to acquire information regarding the kin ...
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BALTIC SEA INFORMATION MOTORWAYS (BaSIM)

Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

Shipment of goods in the BSR increases and will grow in the future even faster. The concept of Baltic Sea Motorways along transnational transport corridors will be based on strong cooperations between players in the transportation field as well as on industry side. Improvement of productivity and competitiveness needs the development both physical and information infrastructure. The first being ad ...
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Safe and Reliable Transport Chains of Dangerous Goods in the Baltic Sea Region (DaGoB) (DaGoB)

Start date: Dec 9, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...s (DG) per year moves in BSR (plus over 100M tons in NW Russia) mostly through densely populated areas, imposing real health and safety risks to people and environment. After the data gathering and reporting in DaGoB, the actual figure is close to 1,000,000,000 tons in the entire BSR region, which was substantially more than anticipated. With this finding, governments and authorities were made mor ...
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Integrating Logistics Centre Networks in the Baltic Sea Region (InLoC)

Start date: Jul 31, 2004, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

As a follow up of the project NeLoC projecz InLoc aimed at further improvement of the networking between logistics centres, ports and other logistics operators in the Baltic Sea Region. The project also analysed spatial and environmental consequences of logistics centres and aimed at removing bottlenecks in port-hinterland connections. Furthermore, the project tried to improve the compatibility of ...
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NEW HANSA OF SUSTAINABLE PORTS AND CITIES (NEW HANSA)

Start date: Mar 5, 2003, End date: Dec 14, 2005,

Shipping is regarded as one of the most environmentally friendly transport modes. On the other hand, there are also considerable risks related to the increasing maritime traffic. The aim of New Hansa was to identify and create sound environmental practices and policies for ports and cities. Reducing air emissions and noise, and managing waste and waste water, were in focus for the analyses and exc ...
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Baltic Cruise Project 2004-2007 (BCP 2004-2007)

Start date: Sep 20, 2004, End date: Sep 20, 2004,

BALTIC CRUISE PROJECT is a cooperation between 10 countries, 19 destinations and 32 partners (ports, city and tourist org.) in the Baltic Sea RegionAn exchange of knowledge and information between Baltic ports and destinations focusing on international cruise tourism. To realise a cruise, the cruise vessel must visit several ports and therefore cooperation between Baltic ports and destinations is ...
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Maritime English Learning Tool (MarEng Plus)

The original web-based maritime English learning tool MarEng was finished in the spring 2007 as a result of a transnational Leonardo da Vinci project MarEng. During the first year of its existence, the learning tool was widely taken into use by different user groups (e.g. maritime students and workers) all over the world. However, based on the feedback received, the tool was missing some relevant ...
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