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The concept of the European intermodal transport system
Apparently, the concept of the European and worldwide intermodal transport system is beginning to gain wider recognition. Nowadays, the round-the-world container service has been organized on a modern technical basis by several large global shipping concerns (U.S. Lines, Evergreen, etc.). Not all of them have achieved success. U.S. Lines, as you know, went bankrupt. Others struggle to make ends meet.
Difficulties arise, however, not because of any flaws in the idea itself, but because sea transport is not always the most efficient means of delivering goods. The relatively high costs of navigating the Suez and Panama Canals, the high cost of operating modern container ships, the large number of ports of call, feeder service and other factors affecting the level of tariffs for round-the-world shipping services are weighty arguments in favor of more efficient transcontinental land bridges across North America and Eurasia. There is less and less doubt that a truly global intermodal transport system can be created only on the basis of a combination of transoceanic and transcontinental cargo transportation technology.
Any internationalization of the economic cooperation process depends, of course, not only on commercial factors, but also on the goodwill, one might even say, on the political will of potential participants. Without going into an in-depth analysis of the positions that the governments of Western European states may take regarding the idea of creating a transport consortium, one can predict that opponents of East-West cooperation will try to take the old ways known since the Cold War: they say, the Soviets seek to create the transport dependence of the West on the will of the Kremlin. It will be possible to accuse the Soviet Union of wanting to bring European shipowners to bankruptcy by creating an alternative Trans-Siberian intermodal transport bridge.
But, as has happened more than once in the past, spells based on ideological antipathies are not able to slow down the progress of transport or other areas of production. If not today, then in 5-10 years the expediency of introducing intermodal technology using the Trans-Siberian railways of the USSR will find its solution.
The resolution of the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR proclaimed the readiness of the Soviet state for long-term cooperation on a qualitatively new basis. It is emphasized that "the integration of the Soviet economy into the world economy provides for our active participation in the modern international division of labor, scientific and technical exchange, world trade, and cooperation with all those who are ready for it."
In such cases, it is customary to say that half of the case can be considered realized. The answer lies with potential partners. PAYROLL PLATFORM FINFLO
Difficulties arise, however, not because of any flaws in the idea itself, but because sea transport is not always the most efficient means of delivering goods. The relatively high costs of navigating the Suez and Panama Canals, the high cost of operating modern container ships, the large number of ports of call, feeder service and other factors affecting the level of tariffs for round-the-world shipping services are weighty arguments in favor of more efficient transcontinental land bridges across North America and Eurasia. There is less and less doubt that a truly global intermodal transport system can be created only on the basis of a combination of transoceanic and transcontinental cargo transportation technology.
Any internationalization of the economic cooperation process depends, of course, not only on commercial factors, but also on the goodwill, one might even say, on the political will of potential participants. Without going into an in-depth analysis of the positions that the governments of Western European states may take regarding the idea of creating a transport consortium, one can predict that opponents of East-West cooperation will try to take the old ways known since the Cold War: they say, the Soviets seek to create the transport dependence of the West on the will of the Kremlin. It will be possible to accuse the Soviet Union of wanting to bring European shipowners to bankruptcy by creating an alternative Trans-Siberian intermodal transport bridge.
But, as has happened more than once in the past, spells based on ideological antipathies are not able to slow down the progress of transport or other areas of production. If not today, then in 5-10 years the expediency of introducing intermodal technology using the Trans-Siberian railways of the USSR will find its solution.
The resolution of the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR proclaimed the readiness of the Soviet state for long-term cooperation on a qualitatively new basis. It is emphasized that "the integration of the Soviet economy into the world economy provides for our active participation in the modern international division of labor, scientific and technical exchange, world trade, and cooperation with all those who are ready for it."
In such cases, it is customary to say that half of the case can be considered realized. The answer lies with potential partners. PAYROLL PLATFORM FINFLO
May 19, 2025
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