Location: Eastern & Western Mediterranean

Client: European Commission - MEDA

Consultants: BCEOM, Associated Consulting Engineers  (ACE), Cope Trans, Ernst & Young, TLS Europe and IDOM

 

Project Description

 

This project is part of a project to extend the trans-European transport network to all countries in the Mediterranean basin. It aims to promote the economic integration of Mediterranean partners through an efficient inter-modal freight transport system. The aim is to link transport systems in EU countries with those of southern and eastern Mediterranean countries.

The European transport network "Motorways of the Sea", based on the concept of an integral logistics chain from hub to hub, will link the main economic basins situated around the Mediterranean. The aim is to achieve efficient intermodal integration of sea, rail, river and road links.

The project, which has a strong organizational and institutional bias, will allow two pilot MoS (Motorways of the Sea) corridors to be identified and their feasibility validated and two vertical consortia to be set up. The consortium will be responsible for operating the MoS after implementing a suitable investment programme as part of a PPP (Public and Private Partnership) - type business plan supported by the European Union.

 

Consultancy Services

 

• Developing regional support for the MoS concept by raising awareness of its potential for the transport sector as a whole, developing a network of institutional and economic stakeholders.
• Identifying at least two major MoS pilot projects (to be implemented as sub-contracted activities) in the MEDA area and between MEDA and EU countries (preferably one in the East Mediterranean and one in the West Mediterranean).
• Promoting a new global approach to the Mediterranean transport system based on logistics targeted on intermodality in order to provide a complete, efficient, safe, clean door-to-door transport service.
• Developing a comprehensive impact assessment of the application of the MoS concept for regional traffic and the transport sector in the Mediterranean area, including socio-economic and environmental implications.
• Producing a MoS intermodal transport route map for the future development of MoS in the Mediterranean area.