Short sea shipping opportunities for the pyrenean cargo flows
- Autores: J. Olivella Puig, Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés
- Localización: Journal of maritime research: JMR, ISSN 1697-4840, Vol. 2, Nº. 2, 2005, págs. 65-80
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper tries to show the results and conclusions reached by a small researchteam within the TRANSMAR research group of the Nautical Engineering andSciences department from the Technical University of Catalonia, the researchstudy carried out has been called INECEU (Intermodality between Spain andEurope) and it has been endorsed by the Spanish Ministry of Transport. Themain objective of this study was to evaluate the chances for the maritime trans-port within a multimodal chain, to alleviate the freight road traffic crossing everyyear the Pyrenean border. In fact, there is well known the limitations of the ter-restrial infrastructures, being nowadays supporting a high degree of congestion.Thus the possibility to pass a part of those goods carried by truck to the maritimemode, would help to reduce those highways overloading, and also improving thepollutant particles and gases emissions. In a first instance the transport by sea, isthe most efficient in consumption and pollution terms. However its own justifi-cation is not dependent only from the sea leg figures in a multimodal chain butfrom the overall steps by which the cargo loaded on board should pass.
