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Opportunities & Advantages of Intermodal Transport between Europe & Asia

Opportunities & Advantages of Intermodal Transport between Europe & Asia. Kiev, 28 September 2004. Hubert Linssen General Delegate. Evolution of the IRU Structure. 1948 - IRU founded in Geneva 1956 - IRU Liaison Committee established

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Opportunities & Advantages of Intermodal Transport between Europe & Asia

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  1. Opportunities & Advantages of Intermodal Transport between Europe & Asia Kiev, 28 September 2004 Hubert Linssen General Delegate

  2. Evolution of the IRU Structure • 1948 - IRU founded in Geneva • 1956 - IRU Liaison Committee established • 1973 - IRU Liaison Committee to the EU established in Brussels • 1998 - IRU Liaison Committee to the CIS established in Moscow

  3. Evolution of IRU Membership Created1948 8 Founder States: 2004174 Members 67 Countries Belgium Denmark France Netherlands Norway Sweden UK Switzerland Laeremans

  4. Main Areas of IRU Activity • Representing Road Transport Industry (Employers) worldwide • Leadership for the Road Transport Industry in key issues • Managing the TIR system administration • Commercial Services to the Road Transport Industry through separate companies, such as • Providing Information Services for Members, via Vialtis www.iru.org

  5. Sustainable Development • Technical progress to build more efficient vehicles and less polluting fuels • Improved logistics process • Improved intermodal cooperation For the IRU, the promotion of sustainable development should include:

  6. Intermodal transport • Road is complementary and indispensable, with rail, maritime or inland waterways, for transport over long distances • The importance of reinforcing links between Europe and Asia

  7. Combined Transport (1) • The IRU supports combined transport as a complete transport management system supplementing traditional road transport • There are no economically viable alternatives to road over short distances – road is always the indispensable partner in all types or road transport.

  8. Combined Transport (2) • The transport of dangerous goods – a good example of combined transport using rail-road – especially over trans-continental distances • Specific problems subsist at terminals which prevent more use of combined transport

  9. Intermodal transhipping (1) • Lack of facilities for intermodal transhipping and red tape at border crossings are prejudicial to international trade and combined transport • Rail is only an option if the following are avoided: • fractioning of shipments • delays • damage to goods

  10. Intermodal transhipping (2) • Multi-modal platforms must be developed with: • Reception and information services • Parking areas for heavy goods vehicles • Freight office • Transit centre • Warehouses • Container loading and unloading installations

  11. Combined Transport risks • Rail-road, sea-road, river-road combined services all incur increased costs through: • Load fractioning • Increased risk of damage to goods • Lengthy delays • Imprecise timings • Lack of technical harmonisation (boxes) • Lack of legal harmonisation • Red tape at borders

  12. Priorities for governments • Governments must : • Encourage the establishment of international facilitation measures • Remove obstacles at borders • Establish a legal regime for multimodal transport with sea links • Flexible transit conditions • Harmonised and flexible border crossing conditions

  13. Conclusion (1) National Authorities, together with IRU Member Associations present in the Euro-Asian region, must take steps to promote road transport, as well as its modal partners, and remove remaining obstacles to respond to needs to develop commercial and economic relations between Asia and Europe.

  14. Conclusion (2) • Innovations to develop ever more effective at source technical measures and operating practices • Incentives to encourage transport operators to accelerate the introduction of the best available technology and practices for combined transport • Infrastructure to remove bottlenecks and missing links on Euro-Asian transport corridors The IRU’s 3 “i” strategy:

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