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One of the most prominent targets of the EU Transport Whitepaper is the ambition to shift 30 % of road freight transported more than 300 kilometres to other modes such as rail or waterborne transport by 2030.
To meet this goal the EU has recognized that this will require the development of appropriate new infrastructure, the upgrading of existing infrastructure and the development of multimodal terminals.
Chemicals companies and intermodal transport
Chemical companies have to a large extent already captured current intermodal transport opportunities, finding it difficult to further increase modal shift without jeopardizing service levels, being either constrained by lack of capacities, lack of sufficiently developed routes, lack of reliability, lack of services at competitive rates or a combination thereof. In order to support the EU’s ambitious plan and enable even greater use of intermodal transport options, Cefic established an Issue Team “Intermodal Transport Network Development” supported by SGKV (Studiengesellschaft fuer den Kombinierten Verkehr e.V., Germany) with the following objectives:
The Intermodal Transport Report
The Cefic report on Intermodal Transport Network Development identifies the obstacles and options for further increasing the intermodal share of chemical transports, in the context of the EU goal to shift 30% of road transport to intermodal transport.
The report contains the results of a survey undertaken to identify the main chemical intermodal transport corridors and volumes, as well as the bottlenecks and barriers.
Recommendations are presented of measures that should be taken by the different stakeholders to allow a further increase the share of intermodal transport.
Download the report " Intermodal Transport Network Development"
Downlaod the Cefic position on Intermodal Transport (June 201)
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