The document emphasizes the importance of timely and comprehensive transportation and trade data for port authorities to enhance competitiveness and strategic planning. By integrating maritime transport data with trade and road transportation statistics, ports can better manage and grow their operations, analyze trends, and develop strategic scenarios. It also highlights the benefits of combining data from various sources to provide a clearer picture of transport developments in economic zones.

1. Transportation & Trade statisticsWhy ports need timely information to become more competitive

2. Need forcomprehensiveandusabletradedataMaritime transport data, in combination with trade and road transportation data, presented in a self service fashion can be used by port authorities for strategic planning and analysis toPage 2provide a comprehensive picture of the development of transport in the economic zone;

3. support the development of strategic scenarios for port communities;

4. provide port authorities with strategic management capabilities to measure their performance and to analyze trends. ... use trade and transport statistics to manage and grow the port

5. Page 3Different sources – different data – same businessRail operators/carriersRoad transport comp.Maritime TradeCustoms/officialsOfficial Trade statisticsBy location of origin, destination or transitBy cargo or products tradedBy means of transport or transport equipment

6. Consolidateddata modelPage 4Transport data

7. GTDS for Transportbased on SuperVIEW technologyPage 5Web analysis of transport & trade flows

8. Maritime Container Based Trade Page 6

9. Page 7Visual comparison of growth of selected ports

10. Comparison of selected portsPage 8

11. Page 9Characteristics of selected ports

12. Page 10Characteristics of selected ports