Intermodal terminals are decisive for the growth of intermodal transport since they facilitate the physical interfacing between different transport modes and often moderate the interests of intermodal stakeholders. The seminar convened 30 high level experts of intermodal terminals in Europe (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, and Romania) representing a total handling capacity of more than 6 million loading units per year.
The exchange of experiences performed in the framework of the Marco Polo Common Learning Project is important to improve business and competitiveness towards road. The seminar demonstrated a large need in such kind of events and...
Intermodal terminal contribute decisively to the growth of this transport segment, by supplying the physical handling at the interface rail-road-inland waterway and often by moderating the interests of the stakeholders. To enlighten this important “role in the intermodal supply chain” will be subject of our seminar for terminal managers on 02.03.2010 in Wien for which we kindly invite named managers of intermodal terminals.
Partners of the AGORA-Project which are themselves deeply involved in terminal business would like to jointly discuss the items listed in the agenda:
10:00 Registration / Coffee
10:30 Welcome and Introduction: AGORA Partners and Objectives
The AGORA Common Learning Action on intermodal terminals will be presented by Uwe Sondermann, KombiConsult, on behalf of the partners on the Marco Polo Information Day. The AGORA presentation can be downloaded here:
| AGORA Presentation MP Information Day 10.02.2010 |
For any further information about the content of the conference, please consult the conference webpage http://ec.europa.eu/transport/marcopolo/events/infod_en.htm
The Marco Polo Information Day will provide presentations of ongoing projects as well as an introduction of the funding mechanism and the forthcoming call for proposals and targets at decision makers in the (intermodal) transport business.
Frankfurt...
Frankfurt am Main, 9 November 2009. The website of the AGORA project on efficient intermodal terminals was launched during the workshop meeting in Bologna on November 9, 2009.
Managers of key intermodal terminals located throughout Europe are cooperating in this Marco Polo project to exchange how to improve their terminal operations and increase the terminal efficiency. The 14 companies in total represent about 50 inland terminal sites with an annual handling capacity of almost 5.7 million loading units (9.1 million TEU) and thus contributed to a considerable modal shift from road to rail and inland waterways.
The website contains...