| The Advantages of the Short Sea Shipping :
 1. Low infrastructure costs
2. Alternative varieties of service (route)
3. Environmentally friendly low energy consumption
4. Unlimited capacity usage
5. Being much more secure in comparison to the other modes of transportation
6. Fair pricing
7. Lower jam rate
8. Optimum duration in navigation, convenient transit duration
Approximate External Cost Advantages in accordance with the Transportation Modes
(Euro/1000 ton-km)
Cost Factor |
Road |
Railway |
Inland waterways |
Maritime |
Casualty |
5.44 |
1.46 |
0 |
0 |
Noise |
2.138 |
3.45 |
0 |
0 |
Contaminating substance |
7.85 |
3.8 |
3.0 |
2.0 |
Cost of Climate (co2) |
0.79 |
0.5 |
- |
- |
Infrastructure |
2.45 |
2.9 |
1.0 |
Less tahn 1.0 |
Jam |
5.45 |
0.235 |
- |
- |
Total |
24.12 |
12.35 |
Max. 5.0 |
Max. 4.0 |
Income of external costs obtained from the road transport 1000 tkm |
11.8 € |
19 € |
20 € |
1 € marginal income obtained from the freight transfer to another mode of transport from the road transport |
85 tkm |
52 tkm |
50 tkm |
Opportunities in the Development of the Short Sea Shipping :
1.
Global warming and the reinforcement of the environmentalist sensitivity
2. Increase in the highway jams and casualties
3. Reduction of costs in the global economies
4. International support to the Short Sea Shipping
Threats in the Development of the Short Sea Shipping :
 1.Unknown by the vast majority of the market
2.Insufficient infrastructures at ports
3.Insufficient co-ordination with the other modes of transports
4.Bottlenecks experienced in the Customs procedures
5.Insufficient market infrastructure
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