Oversize transportation – the key to economical development

Oversize transportation is a big part of industry, energy, infrastructure development. This business area has a big impact to economical development in every country, but it is still very differently organized in separate countries of sought Baltic region (SBR).
Development of common oversize transportation strategy using the good practice and creating new policies could increase SBR economical competitiveness and develop the links to common transport infrastructure. Oversized transport is usually a very important part of every development project so it supposes to be free of any, bureaucracy, miscommunication or possibly infrastructural issues, which would actually add an economical competitiveness to SBR in many industry sectors: energy, industry, transport.
Understanding that the oversize transportation may be the key issue for the regions industry and energy sector development Klaipeda Science and Technology Park has initiated the project “Oversize Baltic”. Long term cooperation with partners among the SBR and qualification in transportation project development makes this new project very promising and developed issues effective.
The main goal of this project is to create well organized strategy between SBR countries: Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Sweden. There should be prepared equal rules among the countries realizing oversize transportation projects, increasing accessibility to them, also creating oversize cargo passages. These goals are involved into SBR countries responsible institutions strategical plans. Lithuanian case its Ministry of Transport.
Also the main “Oversize Baltic” project objectives are to develop a new oversize transportation strategy increasing regions economical attractiveness, to develop a regions oversize transportation study marking the routs, transportation infrastructure and intermodality improving oversize transportation affectivity, to improve business and infrastructure cooperation developing regions competitiveness in global transportation market.
Its important to accent, that oversize transportation is carriage of different turbines, reactors, construction structures, that is very important parts of any construction or development project. If we would be able to narrow the time tables and reduce the bureaucratically, infrastructural complications, possibly prices of this type of transportation projects, that would add an enormous impact to the regions economical development.
The transport accessibility in general means make transportation things easer, simpler, safer, implementing this policy in to the oversize transport system we would develop significant influence to the regions economical competitiveness, ecological situation improvement. Also the connections between the transport infrastructures would be established.
Making the SBR more open for oversize goods would make it more competitive in the global transportation market. Oversize goods transportation streams to Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. Those streams could be organized throe the SBR.
To make the information exchange system functional it is very important to involve all the organizations responsible for the oversize permits. Every partner region will form 3 person groups to the general oversize transport information network development. Its composition based on triple helix system: representative from road administration, policy maker, transport scientist.
Project has started on July 1st 2009. More information about South Baltic cross-border cooperation programme www.southbaltic.eu/ www.transportoversize.eu