Shortsea Shippping Advantages
1. Low infrastructure costs
2. Alternative varieties of service (route)
3. Environmentally friendly low energy consumption
4. Unlimited capacity usage
5. Being much more secure in comparison to the other modes of transportation
6. Fair pricing
7. Lower jam rate
8. Optimum duration in navigation, convenient transit duration
Opportunities in the Development of the Short Sea Shipping :
1. Global warming and the reinforcement of the environmentalist sensitivity
2. Increase in the highway jams and casualties
3. Reduction of costs in the global economies
4. International support to the Short Sea Shipping
Threats in the Development of the Short Sea Shipping :
1. Unknown by the vast majority of the market
2. Insufficient infrastructures at ports
3. Insufficient co-ordination with the other modes of transports
4. Bottlenecks experienced in the Customs procedures
5. Insufficient market infrastructure
Our Shortsea Promotion Center is a member of European Shortsea Network
