IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/jinter/v23y2011i2p161-175.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Development of Hinterland Transport by Rail – The Story of Scandinavia and the Port of Gothenburg

Author

Listed:
  • Rickard Bergqvist

    (Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Box 610, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. E-mail: rickard.bergqvist@handels.gu.se)

  • Johan Woxenius

    (Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Box 610, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. E-mail: johan.woxenius@handels.gu.se)

Abstract

This article analyses the phenomenon of hinterland transport by rail and the remarkable journey that has taken place during the last ten years in Europe, especially in Scandinavia. Furthermore, it includes a brief examination of how current trends affect the role and development of rail for hinterland transport. In fact, particularly in Scandinavia, most of the potential market for hinterland transport of maritime containers is already realised. Nevertheless, stakeholders face new challenges as a result of the current financial crisis and global recession. As a result, transport systems, such as the Scandinavian rail shuttle system, now show modest growth figures in comparison to the 15 to 20 percent of annual growth over the last ten years. Ultimately, rail shuttle services and dry ports will still play an important future role in ensuring competitive and sustainable logistics systems assuming that these companies are able to cope with the imminent challenges.

Suggested Citation

  • Rickard Bergqvist & Johan Woxenius, 2011. "The Development of Hinterland Transport by Rail – The Story of Scandinavia and the Port of Gothenburg," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, , vol. 23(2), pages 161-175, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jinter:v:23:y:2011:i:2:p:161-175
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://jie.sagepub.com/content/23/2/161.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Clott, Christopher & Hartman, Bruce C., 2016. "Supply chain integration, landside operations and port accessibility in metropolitan Chicago," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 130-139.
    2. Chen, Hong & Cullinane, Kevin & Liu, Nan, 2017. "Developing a model for measuring the resilience of a port-hinterland container transportation network," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 282-301.
    3. Gonzalez-Aregall, Marta & Bergqvist, Rickard, 2019. "The role of dry ports in solving seaport disruptions: A Swedish case study," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:jinter:v:23:y:2011:i:2:p:161-175. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.