MOSES Project

Project Methodology

The MOSES has been designed so that the derivation of both the policy recommendations for the Commission and the industrial results for the companies and consultants are taken into account when developing the Work Packages and their integration in and across the Sub-projects, including the testing and validation of the concepts that will be developed.

The project is divided into five sub-projects including:
        SP1. Management, Exploitation plan, and Steering Group
        SP2. Concept development and design
        SP3. Business actions, testing, and demonstration
        SP4. Validation of conceptual design, and policy integration
        SP5. Dissemination, community building, and training

The MOSES project structure is shown in the figure below

Each subproject is briefly described in the following.

SP1. The actions of this sub-project will ensure the overall coordination and management of the project.

SP2. This sub-project will produce a conceptual and innovative design for MoS. This includes all relevant aspects involved to devise mechanisms for removing the economic, organizational, psychological, regulatory, and technological barriers for establishing the European MoS network as a realistic and feasible commercial structure within the TEN-T.

SP3. This sub-project includes the demonstration activities of the MOSES project. The concepts developed in SP2 will be tested for their practicability. The demonstration activities will cover four thematic approaches:

Shipping lines’ development of MoS
Deep sea, feedering, and hinterland regional business case
Shipping lines and lead logistics providers case
Port utilization of ICT for MoS marketing

SP4. This sub-project is responsible, inter alia, for the impact analysis of MoS concepts and their deployment as well as for all project validation activities. It will thus provide validation of both the theoretical conceptualization carried out in SP2 and the practical testing of the concepts carried out in SP3. This sub-project will also be responsible for examining the policy implications and requirements to support the commercial implementation of the MoS networks, including the regulatory and standardization and interoperability issues and requirements, and for their assessment.

SP5. This sub-project will provide the dissemination mechanisms for the MOSES project results and findings, as well as enable the efficient management of the internal communications. Moreover, it is responsible of the community building and training of all participants in the MoS logistics supply chains, and for maintaining active links with other relevant MoS projects and related activities.

The overall methodological approach of the MOSES project is shown in the figure below.