Potential freight distribution improvements using motorways of the sea

Growth drivers of Finnish-Estonian general cargo transports

“…In the European Union truck based transportation chains are still dominating (Woxenius & Bergqvist 2011;Morales-Fusco et al 2012), and market shares as well as volumes have increased in the emerging East European markets (Baltic States, see Buchhofer 1995;Kovacs & Spens 2006;Hilmola 2011). This has hardly changed after the economic crisis of 2008-2009(Hilmola 2011.…”

Data Envelopment Analysis of Helsinki-Tallinn Transportation Chains

“…In empirical research works it has been e.g. found that short sea shipping (typically RoRo) is having hard time to compete cost-wise against road transportation [4][5], and typically the only remedy has been public sector subsidy in one form or another [4].…”

Finding the right RoPax vessel size and freight price. A coste and mode choice model

“…Costs and times for the three alternatives will be calculated with an updated version of the methodology laid out in Morales-Fusco et al, (2012) as found in (Grau Sala, 2015). To calculate the cost of the shipping link an updated version of the methodology by Saurí and Spuch (2010) will be used.…”

“…It also proposes and updates the cost formula for the maritime liners from Morales-Fusco et al (2012) to include the room for passengers in the equation and provides observations regarding the current demand structure between Italy and Spain.…”

“…The traditional overall low elasticity of the later contrasts with the elasticity of MoS, where SSS competes directly with road transportation and where the cost of backshift from SSS to road is negligible for the transporter (DG Move, 2015). This is especially true for the accompanied case where a substantial difference in the necessary pool of transport units does not exist (Morales-Fusco et al, 2012).…”