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Safe and Reliable Transport of Dangerous Goods
in the Russian-EU Logistics Chain (DaGoRus)
Community Initiative Programme 2000-2006
Baltic Sea Region INTERREG III B NP, 9th call
Measure: 3.1 Promotion of transnational institute and capacity
building
The BSR INTERREG III B Steering Committee made decisions on approval
of project applications of the ninth call for project proposals at
its meeting in Wrocław, Poland on 7-8 December 2006. The Steering
Committee has approved the project “Safe and Reliable Transport of
Dangerous Goods in the Russian-EU Logistics Chain (DaGoRus)” and the
project will be co-financed from the External (Tacis) Funding of the
BSR INTERREG III B Programme with a maximum amount of EUR
303.000,00. However, no project activities must be implemented
before the Grant Contract is concluded, as the costs for such
activities will not be reimbursed by the programme. The maximum
duration of the implementation period for projects approved in the
9th round is 24 months. In any case, all project activities must be
finalized latest by 31.12.2009.
Background
Interreg III B project called DaGoB, Safe and Reliable Transport
Chains of Dangerous Goods in the Baltic Sea Region, (www.dagob.info)
was approved by Joint Secretariat in December 2005 in the 8th
application round. Unfortunately the Tacis funding available then
was too limited and the Tacis component was placed on so-called
reserve list and finally remained without financing. Tacis is a
programme of technical assistance underpinning the EUs relation with
the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The 9th
application round offered a new possibility to apply for Tacis
funding. The Tacis extension of DaGoB is called DaGoRus and
coordinated by Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT( www.vtt.fi).
VTT has long expertise in the field of maritime and road safety,
transportation technologies and risk-assessment. They also have a
local office in the centre of St Petersburg assisting with quick and
smooth relations to the Russian partners. This is also very helpful
when organizing workshops and other events.
Project importance
 Transportation volumes in the Baltic Sea region have been growing
significantly due to the rapid growth of the Russian and Baltic
economies. Especially strong growth has been taken place with oil
and chemical transportation.
Increased transportation volumes may pose increased risks to
health, people and environment. However, there is only limited
information on the Dangerous Goods (DG) statistics generally in the
BSR and especially in the transportation between EU and Russia.
The cross-border transportation of DG also affects the risk for
accidents and incidents due to the different handling practices,
operational procedures, cultural differences and different
documentation languages.
The DG transportation chain must be seen as part of the whole
intermodal transport chain, where the weakest link equals the total
weakness of the chain. Thus institutional framework and
harmonization is a key issue in this project.
Project partners
EU-partners: Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Turku
School of Economics (TSE) DaGoB leader, Lund Institute of Technology
(University of Lund)
Russian partners: St. Petersburg Government Committee of Transport
and Transit Policy, North Western Russia Logistics Development
Centre (ILOT), non-profit training and research center Protey
DaGoB partners (25 partners from BSR area): linked to DaGoRus via
Turku School of Economics (Coordinator) and University of Lund
Expected results
The current practices and operational procedures in EU and Russia
will be identified.
Bottlenecks in the DG transport chain will be identified, thus
giving the possibility to find out tools (risk control options) and
new harmonized procedures to improve safety and reliability.
The project will provide a risk assessment in the DG supply chain
by studying real life transport cases.
DaGoRus work package description
WP 1, leader: VTT, Finland; Title: Dangerous Goods transport volumes
and identified bottlenecks
WP 2, leader: VTT, Finland; Title: Current practices of the DG
transport in the Cross-Border traffic between EU and Russia
WP 3, leader: University of Lund, Sweden; Title: Risk evaluation
WP 4, leader Turku School of Economics; Finland; Title:
Harmonization of DG transport Chain
WP 5, leader VTT, Finland; Title: Dissemination and training
DaGoRus Contact
Mr. Jani Granqvist
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Lämpömiehenkuja 2, Espoo
P.O. Box 1000
FI-02044 VTT, Finland
Tel: +358 20 722 4581
e-mail: jani.granqvist@vtt.fi
Tel (St. Petersburg office) +7 812 271 6533
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