Development plan to strengthen the port of Bratislava as a logistic hub for the bioenergy sector

The ENERGY BARGE project partner Slovak Shipping and Ports JSC (SPaP) is a leading company in the fields of transport, transhipment and warehousing of goods, forwarding services, repair works and building of new vessels in Slovakia. The company offers logistics services, being connected with transportation of all kinds of goods on the Danube as well as on the whole network of West European waterways between the North Sea and the Black Sea. SPaP is the operator of the ports in Bratislava and Komárno.

Currently, SPaP is not handling or processing biomass for energetic purposes, even though the company has certain technical capacities to handle biomass products in the ports. However, SPaP is not fully equipped to provide comprehensive services. The subject of SPaP´s pre-feasibility study was a transhipment and storage facility in the port of Bratislava, suitable for the transhipment of wood pellets and wood chips in bulk.

Handling of agricultural products in the port of Komárno (© Slovak Shipping and Ports JSC).

SPaP calculated that the new transhipment facility will be able to handle approx. 20,000 metric tons of wood chips and pellets per year in the port of Bratislava. The building for the envisaged storage facility already exists in the port of Bratislava. After taking in consideration its accessibility by river barges, rail cars/wagons and road transportation/trucks and trailers and its position in the port, it has been taken into account for the elaboration of SPaP’s pre-feasibility study. Being located in the port of Bratislava it has a connection to the road (D1 motorway) and railway network.Thus, it is possible to carry out the transhipment of goods between the different modes of transport (road-water-railway) efficiently.

To download the full pre-feasibility study, please follow this link.