Short Sea Shipping and River-Sea Shipping in the Multi-modal Transport of Containers

Abstract: The constantly increasing quantitative and qualitative requirements for the terrestrial container and Ro/Ro transport can not only be dealt with in road and rail freight transport and from transportation on inland waterways in the upcoming years. Therefore, suitable solutions have to be found which include other modes of transport, whereas both economic and ecological factors as well as macroeconomic considerations are of importance. One possible approach is to increase the use of Short Sea Shipping and River-Sea Shipping so far less applied. The underlying structures here are presented and reviewed for their advantages and disadvantages. Potential demand structures are identified and illustrated by various examples. The paper concludes with analysis and evaluation of these concepts and the summary of necessary measures for their implementation