Bests practices

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Best practice guide

Best Practice Guide (655 Ko)

Best Practices: Services

An organised list of the 9 best practises collected from transport operators is presented below.

As concerns the modes of transport we therefore have gathered :
• 6 "service" best practices focused on rail
• 3 "service" best practices focused on IWW

A big input on IWW comes from Benelux, where barge transport is the most widely represented in the intermodal chain.

A further detail on the collection of best practices comes from the analysis of the loading units involved in the different cases:
• 5 "service" best practices involve containers
• 1 "service" best practice involve the RoRo system
• other three involve various type of ILU’s

Best Practices: Transport Chains

An organised list of the 24 best practises collected from shippers/manufacturers/forwarders is presented below.

As concerns the modes of transport we therefore have gathered :
• 9 "chain" best practices focused on IWW
• 9 "chain" best practices focused on rail
• 3 "chain" best practices focused on both rail and SSS
• 3 "chain" best practices focused on SSS

A big input on IWW comes from Benelux, where barge transport is the most widely represented in the intermodal chain.

A further detail on the collection of best practices comes from the analysis of the loading units involved in the different cases; since IWW is the most used mode, the container stands out as the most common ILU:
• 15 "chain" best practices involve containers
• 5 "chain" best practices involve swap bodies (mainly they are the ones focusing on rail)
• 1 "chain" best practice involve the RoRo system
• other three involve various type of ILU’s