River–sea shipping – competitiveness of various transport technologies

Zoran Radmilović, Radovan Zobenica and Vladislav Maraš

Journal of Transport Geography, 2011, vol. 19, issue 6, 1509-1516

Abstract: This paper evaluates two existing and one new river–sea transport technology. As existing technologies, we are dealing with river–sea transport with transhipment of cargos from sea to river ships and vice versa at ports located in the river mouths and technology with river–sea vessels and the river–sea push barge system. The new cost based models are developed for each of these technologies and illustrated through various examples. The proposed models consider the dependence between minimal total costs and relations of sea transport distance to total transport distance, on one side, and a level of cargo handling rates in ports, on the other side. An analysis of the results provides us with the possibility of drawing useful guidelines for further improvement and development of river–sea transport and its technologies.

Keywords: River–sea transport technologies; Cost based models; Competitive geographic application ranges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.03.002

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