Research indicates strengths of the northern seaports
Northern seaports offer the most efficient route for European container transport:
The northern seaports offer the most efficient route for container transport to Europe. A study conducted by the independent research agency NEA indicates this. Seven ports located in the north of Europe have four times the container throughput of the principal eleven ports situated along the southern coastline of Europe. The analysis concludes that a combination of maritime, hinterland, external environmental factors plays a role therefore. The analysis was carried out on behalf of the Ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg.
In spite of the market growth prognosticated for the Adriatic ports, the largest volumes are likely to concentrate in the North, as the study shows. This growth in the south is the result of from organic growth in Slovenia, Croatia, and Hungary through improved infrastructure. Through the strong growth in the North in absolute terms, however, there is a continuing need for high capacity multimodal links.
On the inland side, the study tends to confirm the development of a European core network for cargo transport. In the future long distance multimodal corridors will have priority within transeuropean cargo networks. concentrating the flows between the main gateway ports and the inland centres of population and industry. In future, engineering a significant North to South shift through intervention is limited by the availability and cost of rail infrastructure in the Alpine region.
The additional rail capacity offered on Transalpine routes (the Mont Cenis, Lötschberg, Gotthard and Brenner) is likely to be needed for capturing road to rail shifts within intra-European flows rather than for reducing maritime traffic around the Atlantic coastline.
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