Multimodal

Major waterway transport issues are related with the requisite development of European waterways network, modal shift, inland ports development, and the offer of road complementary services for industry and territories. Waterway transport is a flexible, reliable and cheap transport mode. It fits particularly well with heavy goods and manufactured products massive flows. Aggregates or agricultural productions are stimulated by waterways. Shippers like Carrières du Boulonnais, In Vivo, Noriap, asked our company to realize audits to improve their utilisation of waterway transport. In this framework, we are dealing with market studies, and regulation, technical, and financial feasibility studies. We carry out a decision support work in order to set up new equipment financing shared projects. For the public sector, we regularly deal with studies and consultancy including potential evaluation, investment feasibility, design and building follow-up for inland ports like Harnes, Nogent sur Seine, and Longueil Sainte Marie.

Rail is an efficient transport mode both on economical and environmental levels. Its using, its development request foresight and planning. The objective is to build an efficient door-to-door service most often combining rail and road and handling and transport modern systems. Long trains (over 750 m) flows massification and balance shall rely on large spectrum studies with the objective of transports mutualization. For answering public sector commitment, we formalize railyard design and management « business models », that we propose to the private sector in the framework of public services subcontractings or land authorizations.

Thanks to the wide preliminary researches launched as from 1990 on the development of European distribution centres, in cooperation with European Union (DG Regio), University (Lille 1), Predit (Ministère des Transports), and the EUROTRANS Partners netwok in Benelux, EUROTRANS has an advantage for detecting and designing relevant multimodal inland port organization. Close to the Le Havre – Hamburg maritime ports, EUROTRANS benefits from latest worldwide innovations in the « European Distribution Centres ». EUROTRANS Consultants are involved in every step of a multimodal platform, from the opportunity study to the realization then in the development phase.

Multimodal transport regular services are essential components of platforms, whom results are based on jobs and modal shift with logistics providers warehouses implementations. The choice of relevant project management and financing plan shall rely on proven techniques and on important expertise in order to get the best value for the public-private partnerships to be set up. Economical, social, and environmental valorisation of communication nodes is a complex challenge, where it is relevant to be accompanied by experts in change management for public bodies and transport operators.