INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Northern Maritime Corridor – The Motorway of the Northern Seas NMC Achievements Februar 2006 Olav Hauge, Project Manager for NMC

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery NMC Partners in the North Sea Region and the Northern Periphery Region

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Vision The Northern Maritime Corridor: a means of efficient, safe and sustainable transportation, connecting coastal areas and enhancing regional development in the North Sea Region and the Northern Periphery Region

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery NMC Project Objective and Activities Core approach: An arena for networking Key actors from both private and public sector Region – to – region cooperation Main objective: To establish new/improved shortsea shipping services to shift cargo from road to sea

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Relations between Strands

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Main Achievements Short Sea Shipping initiatives Network with Russian enties in the petroleum sector Maritime safety initiatives

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Short Sea Shipping Initiatives

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Petroleum Sector Network North Sea cross border scenarios Barents Sea scenarios Arena for both private and public sectors Maritime link to Barents region Improved Cross- Border Connection s

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Maritime Safety NMC conference in Kirkenes facilitated standing committees between Russia and Norway Initiated the Intereg IIIB projects ”Safety at Sea” in the North Sea and Northern Periphery regions Recommendations on risk management strategies

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Project Organisational Arrangement Figure 1 Organisational Set-up for the NMC

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Transnational Organisational Arrangement Figure 1 Organisational Set-up for the NMC

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Regional Maritime Clusters

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Important Organisational Elements Common and shared project management Common meetings, conferences etc. Common newsletter, fact sheets etc. Both regional project managers and transnational strand managers Transnational working groups with a duo of strand managers from both regions Regional maritime clusters

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Challenges and experiences A continuous sea corridor as the common focal point, one project at the outset Project descriptions very similar, identical strands, main activities and time schedule Cooperation defined at the outset A large geographical area A large and comprehensive project Regional maritime clusters with both private and public sector participants Region-to-region and business-to-business arrangements

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Challenges and experiences Very broad network Cooperation with permanent bodies, like Shortsea Promotion Centres Communication with the EU Commission, MoS Unit, the NMC project has been noted In Norway: An inter-ministerial reference group established

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Challenges and experiences Reasonable balance between North Sea and Northern Periphery, mutuality and synergies Combined a bottom-up and top-down approach Not a consensus project – cooperation and competition on the same arena

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Statement from the external evaluator “The NMC Project could at the outset be regarded as a high risk project with regard to its ability to result in tangible impacts. However, the sum of impacts achieved by the NMC project at regional and transnational level seems in such perspective quite impressive.”

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery NMC in a global and European context

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery NMC in a global and European context

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery NMC in a Global and European Context

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery NMC in a Global and European Transportation Network

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery NMC as a Motorway of the Sea

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Sailing Routes Russia - Continent (report from CNIIMF)

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Work Packages in NMC II

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Challenges in the NMC II Maintain the broad network with limited resources Develop a structured cooperation with similar projects in order to create synergy effects, also with projects in other programme regions Cooperation with national level authorities

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery Summing up the NMC project Well defined common focal point and aims Large and comprehensive project Common and shared project management Competition and cooperation on the same arena – not a consensun project

INTERREG IIIB North Sea Northern Periphery The Motorway of the Northern Seas Thank you for your attention!