Atlantic Area Motorway of the Sea

Programme 2000 - 2006 Atlantic Area

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

This project aims to promote the opening of cabotage lines by creating partnerships between ship owners, shipyards, dockers, and public and private bodies and to develop connections between the ports with heavy maritime traffic. It establishes inventories of the existing infrastructures and studies the supply and demand for transport to define the necessary lines and develop Short Sea Shipping (SSS) systems using the Motorways of the Sea (MoS). To meet their objectives, the project intends to set up the following: - Creation of a working and debating cluster between the companies and institutions which can work together to integrate traffic and tariffs under an SSS + MOS scheme, then evaluation of the results; - Inventory and general evaluation of the infrastructures, technical means and procedures, and an outline sketch of the infrastructures to be implemented; - A compilation of information and studies into the supply and demand for transport; - Definition and outline of the SSS + MoS transport lines and the infrastructures required in a port perspective and compared to specific units of transport for each transport route; - Creation of an information platform (www.einfoleet.com), to obtain online information on costs, routes and times of transport and to raise awareness of this mode of transport; - Definition and outline of pilot projects for using regional SSS and quantification of their impact; - Publication of the tools created and the results obtained for the users and the beneficiaries, with a view to encouraging the effective installation of the SSS lines.

Achievements (EN):

✔ Creation of four working groups between the different partners of the project to continue to work together after the end of the project ✔ Setting up bases for working in a network: creation of a permanent network of partner ports with the intention of continuing their collaboration until at least 2013 ✔ Contribution to the improvement of "Short Sea Shipping" services and Motorways of the Sea, as an alternative or addition to road transport. This contribution has been focussed, on one hand, on increasing the knowledge of the characteristics of the different ports regarding the development of this type of line and services (infrastructures, potentialities,) and on the other hand, on the analysis of the technical, commercial and economic viability of the different lines ✔ Creation of tools aiming to continue after the period of the project. The studies carried out are particularly useful for cross-border regions, and the dissemination of the results, through seminars, conferences, and the project website, etc, constitutes an essential tool ✔ Creation of a technology platform to promote (through a simplification of procedures) short distance Maritime Transport, Motorways of the Sea, in the ATMOS project and the INTERREG Programme. This tool will make it possible to supply information common to all the stakeholders concerned by the SSS and to create international, standardised documents ✔ Pilot project: creating studies relating to the minimum restrictions and requirements necessary for a newly created SSS or Motorway of the Sea to be profitable in the medium term ✔ Trans-national coordination meetings (6 organised during the project in addition to the final seminar) ✔ Memory sticks with information about the project and key documents ✔ Final general seminar to present the results in Santiago de Compostela, in March 2007 (124 participants) ✔ Participation in numerous trade fairs, seminars and conferences (logistics fair in Vigo, Short Sea Shipping and Development of Territories, 8th Global Liner Shipping conference...) ✔ Creation of a website www.eu-atmos.info

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Multimodal transport Improving transport connections

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: Ente Publico Portos de Galicia

Address: PLAZA EUROPA 5A-6, 15707 A CORUÑA, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de La Rochelle

Name: Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de La Rochelle

Address: 17024 La Rochelle, France

Legal status: n/a

APDL - Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões, SA

Name: APDL - Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões, SA

Address: 4451-851 Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

Legal status: n/a

Autoridad portuaria de la Bahia de Algeciras

Name: Autoridad portuaria de la Bahia de Algeciras

Address: 11207 Algeciras, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Administração do Porto de Sines

Name: Administração do Porto de Sines

Address: 7520-953 Sines, Portugal

Legal status: n/a

Autoridad portuaria de Gijón

Name: Autoridad portuaria de Gijón

Address: 33201 Gijón, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Port of Cork co.

Name: Port of Cork co.

Address: ---- Cork, Ireland

Legal status: n/a

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Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de La Rochelle

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APDL - Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões, SA

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Autoridad portuaria de la Bahia de Algeciras

Atlantic Area Motorway of the Sea

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Ente Publico Portos de Galicia

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Administração do Porto de Sines

Atlantic Area Motorway of the Sea

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Autoridad portuaria de Gijón

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Port of Cork co.

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Summary

Project name (EN): Atlantic Area Motorway of the Sea

Project acronym: ATMOS

Project start date: 2005-01-01

Project end date: 2008-03-05

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 615 795.35

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 916 170.89

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Financing programme

2000 - 2006 Atlantic Area

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2019-03-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

85 / 85 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

740 / 740 (100%)

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Atlantic Area Motorway of the Sea

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