Eliminating barriers for sustainable transport systems on maritime silk road and Baltic-Adriatic Corridor under BRI

Beškovnik, Bojan (author), Golnar, Marko (author)

Infrastructure elements are a crucial factor in accommodating larger ships, organizing longer trains, and ensuring the higher flow of goods in intermodal hubs. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) supports the development of infrastructure on the defined transport routes—the Maritime Silk Road (MSR), which includes the European southern transport route through the northern Adriatic. The research emphasizes the importance of the port, and railway infrastructure development on the Baltic–Adriatic Corridor (BAC) by analyzing the pollution level produced from transport means currently employed. The results of SO$_2$, NO$_x$, PM10, and the energy efficiency of intermodal transport chains prove that the current transport route to the northern leg of the BAC via the port of Gdansk is more environmentally friendly, even if it is about 3000 NM longer. The article provides a scientific contribution by pollution data elaboration for demonstrating the need and justification for high investment in BAC in order to establish sustainable transport chains. The study shows that pollution values from supply chains on the Asia–Central Europe axis could be reduced by up to 30% by eliminating infrastructural barriers in the port of Koper and on the railway network at BAC, which is one of the primary goals of BRI.

• Language: English
• Keywords: sustainable transport systems, Belt and Road Initiative, Baltic-Adriatic corridor, container terminal, railway network, intermodal transport
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FPP - Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, iss. 18, art. 7412
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134353
• UDC: 656:504
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su12187412
• COBISS.SI-ID: 28708355
• Publication date in RUL: 10.01.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 09.09.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: trajnostni transportni sistemi, Baltsko-jadranski koridor, trajnostni razvoj, železniško omrežje, kontejnerski terminali, intermodalni transport, BRI

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: L7-1847
• Name: Razvoj trajnostnega modela rasti "zelenega pristanišča"