FEASIBILITY STUDY OF THE COMBINED TRANSPORT CORRIDOR BETWEEN GREECE ITALY and GERMANY

DESIGN BUDGET : A' PHASE 311.000 ECUS
                                    B' PHASE 157.800 ECUS
CLIENT: GENERAL DIRECTORATE VII



The object of the study (undertaken jointly with ADK Consulting Engineers and COMBIMARE) was to examine the technical reasonability and the economic feasibility of the establishment of a multimodal combined transportation corridor between Greece and Northern Europe (with Germany as referred node) for unaccompanied units (semitrailers and swap bodies) combining road-naval-rail segments with participation of operators of all modes (trucks owners, transportation companies, forwarders, shipping companies, railways).

After the completion of the first phase which included market research, feasibility assessment and selection of ports (Patra on the Greek side and Brindisi on the Italian side) for the following pilot phase, the second phase included a more in depth analysis of traffic flows and feasibility of the combined transport as well as monitoring, assessment and evaluation of the results of the pilot operation starting March 1994.