Title: Short sea shipping in Europe: issues, policies and challenges
Abstract: In the past three decades, the European shipping industry has undergone rapid transformation, both globally and domestically. Increasing competition from other continents in terms of fleet registration and shipbuilding, changes in freight flow patterns due to global economic development, progress in the establishment of the internal market of the European Union (EU) and growing concern about the environment has fostered some policy initiatives in maritime transportation aimed at improving the sector's performance. In Europe, at least three types of freight shipping can be identified (for both deep and short sea shipping), namely liner, tramp and own shipping. They serve different requirements depending on the type of freight, packaging, services to be provided, shipment size, frequency of sailings, to name but a few. Liner shipping maintains regular services between specified ports at publicized schedules. They are mainly designed to carry unitized cargoes, notably containers, trailers and pallets. Tramps, widely known as the 'maritime taxi', do not sail on publicized schedules and are usually used by a single shipper for full shiploads – either for a single voyage or for more frequent use.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-09-30
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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