 Benefits of Coastal Shipping: Scope for Sea Change in Domestic Freight Transportation in IndiaLavanya Ravikanth Anneboina () and K.S. Kavi Kumar Working Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: The share of coastal shipping in the modal mix of domestic freight transportation in India is currently very low despite it being more costeffective, fuel-efficient and environment-friendly compared to other modes of transportation. This paper estimates the benefits of coastal shipping, which are simply the costs avoided by transporting goods via sea as opposed to transporting them by road or rail. The economic, environmental and social benefits of coastal shipping are valued in the range of Rs. 16 – 64 billion per annum in 2012-13 prices. In physical terms, greenhouse gas emissions reductions amount to between 1 – 22 lakh tonnes of carbon per annum. The lower- and upper-bound values in the range represent cost savings (or emissions reductions) with respect to rail and road transport respectively. The results indicate that the country would stand to gain from a modal shift in freight transportation from road and rail transport to coastal shipping. [Working Paper No. 147/2016]. Keywords: Coastal shipping; Freight transport; Cost savings; Transport policy, cost, savings, freight, transportation, emissions, reductions, carbon, costeffective, domestic, India, fuel-efficient and environment-friendly transportation, (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11162 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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