The paper describes the characteristics of current transhipment practices, and provides recommendations on how to boost innovation to support the competitive position of inland navigation. The working paper describes the results of a comparison of different intermodal transshipment interfaces (e.g. automatic stacking cranes, container gantry cranes, self-unloading ships, river-sea barges). It provides a short analysis of the different current and future intermodal transshipment interfaces and possible conditions for an efficient integration of them within the inland waterborne logistics and multi-modal transport chains. The paper includes recommendations for improving the integration of IWT in intermodal chains, such as creating lower investment barriers, increasing and supporting cooperation in intermodal chains, increasing user acceptance of innovations, and improving framework conditions for innovative transhipment technologies.
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Author: Gert-Jan Muilerman; Copyright: ISL; Published by: Gert-Jan Muilerman (Muilerman) factID: 229125.1; published on 27 Jän. 2006 15:08
