The Project Development Objective is to better understand the potentialities for intermodal transport in the Western Balkans countries (Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro) towards more efficient, predictable, and cleaner freight movements. It feeds the overarching objective to foster the long-term sustainable development of the logistics sector, with a reduction of costs for long hauls across the region, the improvements of asset utilization through intermodal transport, and the increase of resilisence in trade strategies along the main corridors. The indicative extended TEN-T comprehensive network has been used as a basis especially for future freight demand projections.
The Project activities has been organized as follows:
Task 1: Conduct of gap assessment for enhanced Intramodality
Task 2: Conduct of current and future Demand and Supply Analysis of intermodal freight transport
Task 3: Identification of main bottlenecks and opportunities, including key markets, for increased rail and inland waterways use for intermodal freight transport
Task 4: Economic and financial analysis of existing and potential Intermodal Freight Terminals
Task 5: Assessment of the benefits of increased levels of intramodality for freight transport in the Region
