River shipping is highly ranked on the political agenda of sustainable transportation. Nevertheless, a closer look at the EU modal split is disillusioning, since despite all efforts to spur inland water transport, a stagnation is present since many years. A look beyond EU borders to Russia reveals an even more drastically evolution, which is characterised by a steep decline of river transport since the 1990’s with a significant modal shift towards road and railway transportation.
Successful river shipping concepts depend on the integration into multimodal transportation chains and powerful technology for modal change. If such conditions can be fulfilled, river transport can take its role as a sustainable hinterland transportation link with low internal and external costs. Rhine River container or Yangtze River shipping represent well-known cases for successful conceptual implementations.
Against this background, the goal of the present study is to investigate and discuss the development of the Russian river fleet and the perspectives for future river transport. This includes the deduction of corresponding recommendations, based on identified present inadequacies, for reinforcing sustainable inland waterway shipping in Russia. The study bases on secondary data analysis of the Russian River Register and the Russian River Shipping Strategy for 2030, as well as expert interviews. New concepts and investments are necessary to regain significance in the modal split. However, Russian river shipping bears high potential due to climate change and the fact that alternative transport modes face infrastructural shortcomings that are related to congestions, environmental problems and increasing transportation costs.
Russian River Shipping: Evolution and Perspectives
Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.
International Conference on Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication ; 2021 ; Riga, Latvia October 14, 2021 - October 15, 2021
Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication ; Kapitel : 23 ; 259-269
2022-02-23
11 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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