European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) Statistics Committee

1. European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)Statistics Committee History, Structure, Work Miltiadis Arvanitidis BSc Mathematics, MA Statistics, MBA Marketing Chairman ESPO Statistics Committee IMSF meeting, Singapore, April 2007

2. ESPO • Founded: 1993 • Mission: to influence public policy in the EU to achieve a safe, efficient and environmentally sustainable European port sector, operating as a key element of a transport industry where free and undistorted market conditions prevail, as far as practicable. • Structure: General Assembly, Executive Committee, Four Committees and Secretariat. • Committees: Transport, Marine, Environment, Statistics, Port Security Expert Group

3. ESPO Statistics CommitteeHistory • Created as Community Port Working Group, Sub Group Statistics • First meeting April 27, 1989, Venice • Main task: EU Directive 95/64/EC of 8 December 1995, on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea • Became ESPO Statistics Committee at the ESPO General Assembly, January 23, 2001 • Meets twice a year at different European locations

4. Participants • Members: 1 member per member state plus observers (member and non member states) • Observers also include: • European Commission (DG TREN) • Eurostat • ECSA / UK Chamber of Shipping • DTMRF

5. Aims and objectives • Assist ESPO in achieving it’s goals, by providing expertise in data collection and use • Assist ports and the port community to improve their performance by following “techniques of best practice”, through port visits, presentations and studies • Assist other bodies (such as Eurostat (also check its data), DG TREN, World Bank and so on) in data collection and use • Networking between port and port community members

6. Data collection • Rapid data exchange system • Exchange data between ports using a standard format. Every port is welcomed to join • Initiated in the nineties. Since 2000, exchange in electronic form • Maintained by DTMRF - Direction des Transports Maritimes, Routiers et Fluviaux, France • Data collected on a quarterly basis, 10 weeks after the end of the quarter, dissemination 2 weeks later • Future plan: Creation of a yearly database on a restricted access basis

7. Data collection • EU Directive 95/64/EC (statistics for seagoing traffic - cargo, passengers, vessels): • Expertise in creation, improvement, implementation, port requirements, check • Participation in Eurostat’s Task Force (2006) for the update of the above directive

8. Data collection • Short Sea Shipping, EC-DG TREN: • Data provision, since 1995 • World Bank: Study on the added value of EU ports (2005) • Questionnaire design, dissemination, answer

9. Data collection • ESPO Statistics Committee: Fact finding European ports (2005) • Hinterland transportation (barge, rail, road) • Modal split (barge, rail, road, transhipment, pipeline) • Selected trades (Non containerised general cargo, ro-ro cargo, cars, fruit, iron and steel, forest products) • Container trade per area • Covered warehouse space

10. Data use • ESPO Web Site (suggestions for better appearance of Statistics section) • ESPO Annual Report (creation of templates) • ESPO Fact Finding Report • ITMMA (Institute of Transport and Maritime Management, Antwerp) Market Analysis Report for ESPO • Studies, surveys, exercises

11. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee: EU Seaports,Added Value Study (1997-1999) • Inventory creation of available added value studies • Methodology used by each port and main results • Methodologies’ typology

12. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee: Benchmarking EU ports (2000-2001) • Add value to the RDE and ESPO website data • Tool for comparison of port performance, ranking • Demonstrate efficiency of the EU port sector, promotion purposes

13. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee: Survey of Port Trade Tonnage Forecasts (2001) • Information about different methodologies used (such as: purpose, initiator, body carrying out the exercise, length of time, data basis, regional cooperation) • Summary of present forecasts

14. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee: Questionnaire on container tare weight and conversion into TEU (2002) • Standard value for tare weight (20, 30, 40 feet container: 2, 3, 4 tones respectively) • TEU conversion (20, 30, 40, over 40 feet container: 1, 1.5, 2, 2.25 TEUs respectively)

15. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee: EU Freights Forecast (2005) • Seagoing traffic forecast of EU countries on a national basis • Coverage (12 countries), sources and tools • Data (1997-2003), forecast till 2010 • Multiple regression by country

16. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee: Information gathering for statistical purposes (2004) • Parties from which the info is obtained from • Documents and messages used • Purpose uses of the obtained info • Documents and messages exchanged electronically • Statistical needs not covered by the directive

17. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee: Port Capacity: Theoretical Framework(2006) • Defining Capacity • Planning Capacity • Managing Capacity – a model • Alternative Strategies • Implementation of Capacity • Designing Expansion • Further Economic Evaluation • Limitations to managing port capacity

18. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee – ECSA – Lloyd’s Register Fairplay: Standardization of RO-RO unit (2006) • RO-Ro units: Cassettes, trailers, semi-trailers, flats, lorries, railwagons, ro-ro containers, new cars, sto-ro units, SECU • Port’s and vessel owner’s point of view • No standard RO-RO unit like the TEU for containers • Comparability between ports • Comparability between vessel/fleet capacity and utilization • Further study to be financed by DG-TREN

19. Studies, Surveys, Exercises • ESPO Statistics Committee – Eurostat: Port questionnaire (2006) • Port size (land area) • Direct employment • Number of ship to shore lo-lo gantry cranes • Quay length for lo-lo container handling • Maximum draught of container vessel able to enter port

20. Presentations–Reports to the Committee • National Bank of Belgium: The economic importance of the port of Antwerp (1997) • Policy Research Corporation: The importance of the Flemish ports (1997) • Port of Rotterdam: Port added value methodology (1997) • Port of Thessaloniki: The implementation of the maritime statistics directive (1999) • Port of Rotterdam: Competition of four European ports on the German market (1999) • Port of Rotterdam: 2020 report for the port of Rotterdam (1999) • Port of Antwerp: Truck traffic project in Antwerp (1999) • Port of Antwerp: Ranking of world ports (1999)

21. Presentations–Reports to the Committee • Port of Thessaloniki: The implementation of a container terminal management system (2001) • Community Network Services: The implementation of the Maritime Statistics Directive (2001) • Maritime Cargo Processing: Ports electronic commerce services (2001) • Port of Dublin: The port of Dublin (2002) • Port of Amsterdam: The need of statistical data port planning in practice (2002) • National Bank of Belgium: The economic importance of the Flemish Maritime Ports (2002 report) • Port of Amsterdam: The Dutch project ‘PortNet’ (2004) • ISL: Company presentation (2004)

22. Presentations–Reports to the Committee • Port of Antwerp: The Antwerp port master plan (2004) • AMARIS: The Antwerp Maritime Information Systems (2004) • Port of Amsterdam: Sources for Port Statistics – proposal for benchmarking (2004) • ISL: Port Container traffic forecasts – concept for a new approach (2005) • Global Insight: China’s impact on trade and the intermodal system (2005) • Global Insight: Trends in the world economy and trade, an analytical guide to global trade (2005) • Global Insight: Forecast of import and export trade for EU 25 for deep sea trade (2005) • ECSA: Survey on availability of statistical data (2005)

23. Presentations–Reports to the Committee • Lloyd’s Register Fairplay: Trends in world fleet changes – implications on port infrastructure and port development (2006) • The Port of Göteborg on the point of view of the oil harbour and its facilities (2006)

24. Participation of ESPO Statistics Committee to other statistics bodies • Eurostat (Directorate General of the European Commission for statistics) • ECSA (European Community Shipowners’ Associations) • IMSF (International Maritime Statistics Forum)

25. Additional future work • Collection of data on containerized cargo • Documents/information flows for hinterland statistics • Employment statistics • Updates on the EDI projects and plans at ports • Improvement of statistics toolkit

26. Additional future work • Intermodal transport statistics • Inventory of existing statistical sources on ports • Inventory of existing initiatives from other groups and list of best practices and problems to be solved • Cooperation with other groups

27. European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)Statistics Committee History, Structure, Work Miltiadis Arvanitidis BSc Mathematics, MA Statistics, MBA Marketing Chairman ESPO Statistics Committee IMSF meeting, Singapore, April 2007