Inland shipping
A transport market with a high potential
Interest in inland waterway transport is growing. Already strong in the transport of bulk cargoes, in the last few decades, inland shipping has also become a serious alternative to road for container transport. In the future, pallet transport offers a further opportunity. The opening up of Eastern Europe and the completion of the Rhine – Main – Danube Canal has given further impetus to this mode of transport. There are favourable perspectives, especially for river-sea vessels that can penetrate far inland.

Wide scope of expertise
ECORYS offers research and advice on inland waterway transport. These activities cover a wide area, ranging from navigation studies, to the construction of new terminal and associated facilities, to the assessment of the inland waterway structure. Advice is often carried out in multidisciplinary teams offering clients the full range of required expertise. Also sector studies are carried out on a range of topics including the optimum waste processing to the market potential for river-sea vessels.

As an independent expert in inland shipping economics, ECORYS offers added value for the sector. Through a mix of profound knowledge of the sector and an extensive set of scientifically based research methods for evaluation and forecasting, ECORYS can adequately respond to the wide scope of questions that the sector faces.

Through our activities on national and European level, ECORYS can integrate the national and international policy issues and to translate lessons learned in various countries and settings. An integral approach of both technical and practical needs together with policy vision and a clear economic assessment have proved to be successful.

Our services include:

• Strategy development
• Cost benefit analysis & investment evaluation
• Traffic forecasting
• Market studies
• Institutional assessment
• Policy development

ECORYS issues a digital newsletter on Transport and Mobility, 'ROTA'. You can find the latest issue here.

For more information, please contact:

Jeroen Bozuwa
T +31 (0) 10 453 87 51
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Johan Gille
T +31 (0) 10 453 86 21
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