Resumen de High speed crafts viability analysis
Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra
This paper presents a brief analysis on the applicability of high speed crafts inshort sea trades, from different marine stakeholders point of view.The TRANSMAR research group of the Nautical Engineering and Sciences depart-ment from the Technical University of Catalonia,has continued the finishedstudy (INECEU: Intermodality between Spain and Europe), proposing fastships for serving some of the selected sea links in West Europe in it. The recentcommunication regarding the mid-term review of the European Commission’s2001 White paper on Transport,confirms that the evolution of modal split infreight transport from the year 2000 up to the year 2010,will show a steady shareof 39% for the waterborne transport and a slight increase in the road transport. One of the four pillars of the European transport policy is the innovation intransport technologies and systems,improving its efficiency and logisticsthroughout the supply chain.
