THE COMPETITIVENESS OF FEEDER SHIPPING COMPARED TO ROAD TRANSPORT

Abstract

Feeder shipping, as a segment of short sea shipping, plays an important role in the transport of containerized cargo between the European ports. Its competitiveness compared to the direct road transport depends primarily the cost and time of the whole land-sea transport chain. The article presents the comparative analysis of cost in transport including feeder shipping and pre-haulage and costs generated in direct road transport. On the basis of the analysis, the influence of localization of feeder and hub ports on competitiveness of feeder shipping was evaluated.