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LOGBASED REPORT PROJECT PRESENTATION & PUBLISHABLE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Doc. no. FP6-1708-WP0-D0.8-001 Bergen, 11.01.2008

Project Presentation & Executive Summary Date : 11.01.2008 LOGBASED Deliverable D0.8 Rev : 01 Classification: Public Page : i of ii WP/ Task leader : G RIEG L OGISTICS Key person : I VAN O ESTVIK & P ER O LAF B RETT Document title : P ROJECT P RESENTATION & E XECUTIVE S UMMARY Category : LOGBASED D ELIVERABLE Project doc. no. : FP6-1708-WP0-D0.8-001 External distribution : N O R ESTRICITONS Classification : P UBLIC Disclaimer Use of any knowledge, information or data contained in this document shall be at the user's sole risk. Neither the LOGBASED Consortium nor any of its members, their officers, employees or agents shall be liable or responsible, in negligence or otherwise, for any loss, damage or expense whatever sustained by any person as a result of the use, in any manner or form, of any knowledge, information or data contained in this document, or due to any inaccuracy, omission or error therein contained. The European Community shall not in any way be liable or responsible for the use of any such knowledge, information or data, or of the consequences thereof. O2 11.01.2008 POB IO, DK, JT IO Final report 01 01.08.2007 IO POB Final draft for approval Revision Date By Checked Approved Comm ents

Project Presentation & Executive Summary Date : 11.01.2008 LOGBASED Deliverable D0.8 Rev : 01 Classification: Public Page : ii of ii CONTENTS CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................... I I 1 I NTRODUCTI ON ........................................................................................................ 1 1.1 General................................................................................................................ 1 2 APPROACH ADOPTED................................................................................................ 2 3 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY ADOPTED ................................................................... 4 4 DEVELOPMENT OF METHODOLOGY AND APPROACH ................................................. 6 5 SHI P DESI GN AND BUSI NESS CASE DEVELOPMENTS.............................................. 1 0 5.1 I ntroduction ....................................................................................................... 10 5.2 Atlantic Case ...................................................................................................... 10 5.3 Baltic Case ......................................................................................................... 11 5.4 Hydro Case......................................................................................................... 11 5.5 Rhine Case ......................................................................................................... 12 6 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS DEVELOPED I N THE PROJECT.......................................... 1 3 7 LOGBASED PARTNERS ............................................................................................ 1 4 8 CONCLUSI ONS........................................................................................................ 1 4

Project Presentation & Executive Summary Date : 11.01.2008 LOGBASED Deliverable D0.8 Rev : 01 Classification: Public Page : 1 of 14 1 I NTRODUCTI ON 1 .1 GENERAL This Report provides a summary of the main results of the technical research work conducted in the LOGBASED project. The final aim of the LOGBASED effort was to develop ro-ro vessels enabling motorways of the sea to become more competitive towards their road/ rail equivalents. To accomplish this aim, the LOGBASED partners have been working towards the achievement of the following objectives: • I dentifying the principal requirements and variables influencing the development of a viable intermodal transport business; • Capturing the principal ship design and shipbuilding variables, as well as their interrelationships; • Mapping the commercial and technical aspects in a logistics-based design methodology and developing a supporting software tool to facilitate its application; and • Applying the developed method and tools for selected business cases (intermodal transport systems) in order to verify the approach through the design of more efficient ro- ro vessels. The aim and objectives have been met whereas the Final Method Report (doc no FP6-1708-WP2- D2.4-R01 Final LOGBASED methodology) and assessment of vessel designs (doc no FP6-1708- WP3-D3.4-R01 Measurement of vessel performance) provide documentation on this aspect. A comprehensive project paper has also been prepared illustrating the main results from the Project. This paper will be submitted to: • The I nternational Marine Design Conference (IMDC) in 2009 in Trondheim, Norway as a follow up to the two papers presented at the previous I MDC conference in 2006. • A maritime journal having the audience of interest.

Project Presentation & Executive Summary Date : 11.01.2008 LOGBASED Deliverable D0.8 Rev : 01 Classification: Public Page : 2 of 14 2 APPROACH ADOPTED The LOGBASED Approach (the Approach or LOGBASED) provides designers, shipbuilders and ship operators with better guidance to develop effective ship designs for business opportunities relating to intermodal cargo transportation. The approach has been developed based on applications for ro-ro ships. However, the approach is generic by nature and can be applied to any type of cargo and/ or passenger transportation development project. Shortsea shipping applications have been focused upon in LOGBASED, nevertheless, deep sea shipping activity can benefit from the Approach if and when applied to analysing and concluding on what is a better transport system replacement solution including the one ship or fleet of vessels servicing the transport system in question. The LOGBASED-approach is a multipurpose development guide containing: • A systemic transport system development and conceptual ship design work procedure • an inquiry-based business decision-making procedure • a toolbox of information collection and collation methodology, analyses and performance measurement techniques and, • a repository of relevant transport system and ship design default values and statistics The Approach can be applied from the moment where a brief business opportunity or idea has been borne or identified and a decision-making process is to start about: • What are the options with respect to improving a current or building up a completely new transport system solution including the ship or fleet of vessels involved in setting up the system? • What is the better solution of the realistic ones at hand? • How to realise it? • What to expect of the preferred solution with respect to performance competitiveness and system yield? The approach, therefore, deals with identifying particular logistics, operational and design problems to be solved and corresponding uncertainties to be managed. Many business concepts involving various elements of a transport system (pre-handling of cargo, terminal, ship, cargo handling, distribution of cargo, etc.) are complex and consist of many facets not immediately transparent to the developer and decision maker. Such complex decision making processes involve uncertainty at a level that can quickly ruin a business if it goes wrong. I t is, therefore, the purpose of the LOGBASED-approach to assist such decision-making processes by handling complexity and corresponding uncertainties in a more explicit way than of the past and ensure that the transport system complexity and corresponding critical uncertainties are fully integrated and carefully considered in the development process of the transport system as well as in the design process for the best ships to service the logistical solutions. The Approach ensures that such development is taking place within a pre-defined business context and pre-set socio- technical boundary conditions. The description of the LOGBASED approach is summed up into Figure 1, which illustrates the various modules being developed in the project. The method report is the cornerstone of the approach, which is fully supported and made operational by the Excel (guidance) tool in form of 9 modules forming a step-by-step procedure. A number of additional supporting tools have been developed within and as attachments to the 9 modules. Utilising the procedure shall result in an