Shipping, the greenest link in supply chains, badly needs a stronger modal shift in mode of transport. Shift the cargo from road to IWT. Ports as trimodal centres serve multimodality.

Part of the extensive logistics network, ports represent strategic nodes facilitating cargo flows and businesses. High performing ports of the future must expand their capabilities beyond their status as transshipment hubs towards focal points for renewable energy. This implies keeping ports at the forefront of global innovation and smart solutions with streamlined administrative workflows. MultiRELOAD aims to actively contribute to the achievement of the endeavours promoted in Pro Danube’s vision “Same River – Same Rules”.

For me MultiRELOAD means an excellent opportunity to collaborate with international partners in strengthening inland waterway transport by facilitating multimodal transport. MultiRELOAD gives us the possibility to work on specific aspects, e.g. enhancing the transport of bulk goods in multimodal equipment, which is in line with our mission to promote inland waterway transport as a sustainable mode of transport.

MultiRELOAD means a big contribution to the development of more sustainable and efficient freight transport solutions in Europe for me. It enables creating better market conditions for multimodal transport involving three innovation areas aiming to lead to an economic growth in rail and inland waterway transport.

Progress towards collaborative, digital, automated, multimodal, efficient and environmentally friendly freight transport - this is MultiRELOAD. For me, this project represents the hope that we as a society can drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions if stakeholders are willing to work together. With our efforts in MultiRELOAD we want to set an example and show Europe that multimodal freight transport by barge or train works!

MultiRELOAD brings a great opportunity to drive towards a more sustainable, resilient and collaborative transport system in Europe. It enhances the role of nodes to achieve the synchromodality and embraces the Alice’ Physical Internet vision. MultiRELOAD means for Alice an opportunity to support its members to get more knowledge on IWT, rail and digitalization and to foster the market implementation by connecting with relevant stakeholders. Through collaboration with all partners, we are convinced that MultiRELOAD will make multimodal transport more attractive for end-users and will enable a step forward for a greener logistics in Europe.

Inland ports are important logistical nodes in transport chains. Increasing the efficiency of these nodes in global supply chains and strengthening the modal shift on two major European transport corridors are key objectives of the project and essential for the success of the Port of Duisburg.

In MultiRELOAD we contribute to the 90% emission goal in the transport sector of the European Green Deal. Focus of our tasks is to shift cargo to the Danube by developing a new business model for bulk cargo in containers. Moreover, we focus to create transparency by measuring the impact of MultiRELOAD in terms of CO2 savings and modal shift potential. I hope that we will succeed in tackling the challenges we face and achieving our ambitious goals.

I recently joined the MultiRELOAD project and was quickly able to see the great value of the mutual exchange of knowledge and experience from the various perspectives of the project partners. Especially when it comes to testing innovations, it is essential to discuss, learn and improve together in order to provide truly viable and sustainable multimodal freight solutions for our sector and ultimately contribute to the goals of the Sustainable and Intelligent Mobility Strategy.

A port also develops through its network, which can only be maintained by people and their personal commitment. MultiRELOAD is next to the thematic relevance, a possibility to expand the network and to generate further benefits for the Port of Vienna. I love to be a part of the network...

Ports are crystallization points of mega-trends like continuous global trade integration and shorter lifecycles of technological innovations. Thus, ports need to keep up with their logistics performance to the needs and expectations of their customers. Technological and organization innovation, just as targeted in the MultiRELOAD project, is an inevitable prerequisite to achieve that goal and to sustainably do business. This holds true for the Rhine-Alpine Corridor with its outstanding performance as well as the Rhine-Danube Corridor with its huge growth potential.

For me, MultiRELOAD represents a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to fostering innovation and exploring the concept of multimodality by pushing the boundaries of conventional thinking to unlock new possibilities. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, we shape the future of our sector, paving the way for its transformational change.